windies squad to sri lanka

my time is done too.  I do not intend to comment on the Pitch anymore.  I have nothing more to say.  my time with west indies cricket is over.

I reserve the right to comment however, anytime I find a need to..which I hope is never.

but my time appears over, my disconnect complete.  time to move on from west indies cricket :-[

This team is an attempt to promote and reward those who have been doing well domestically.

Pollard, Dwayne and Gayle have no interest in test cricket, and haven't even played a regional four day game in years.

In contrast, Paint has been setting domestic records left-right-and center; no other WI batsman has done better domestically since Lara.

Yes, the local cupboard is bare and we don't have a bowler worth a damn in the pipeline (outside Narine and Taylor and arguably Bishoo and Badree) - compare to 20 years ago when we had about 8 classy fast bowlers fighting for spaces on the team - but these problems can't be fixed by selectors and they can't be fixed in anything less than a generation. You either believe the admins are ashamed, fed-up and genuinely making efforts to improve things at the grassroots, or you believe the WICB are a bunch of over-paid morons doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over and over. I think it's a little bit of both.

there is a third option.  we know that the wicb is now a fully fledged bureau and what that means.  the bureau has substituted its interest for that of the cricket, monopolizing the revenue to meet its existential needs.  the cricket comes second if even that.

the bureau if it understood what it could do to alleviate a downturn in  the flow of talent never gave such an impression and have been doing but impoverishing the game by placing its interest first

the bureau thinks nothing of spending 300k annually for a coach which by Titty currency is about a million dollars a year.  now that Lloyd is chair of selectors his salary must be up there too.  so must the chairman, v-chair and CEO.  and as we count down staff we technical and professional people who must command money equal to what was the last figure I saw players getting.  then again the wicb is now at leat sixty people so we talking computer people, clerical people, data entry etc.  the impression I have is that wicb salary requirements annually is likely 10 million dollars or more of some currency.  it wont be Jamaican, Guyanan or Bim.  it cud be Titty..or EC.  prolly a mix of the last 2, along with USD.  no  wonder they had to cut the players so drastically.

so the first priority of the wicb currently is the disbursement of revenues to pay itself.  what programs cud have been developed to attract talent and mitigate the current dearth..many but there cannot possibly be money for that given the drain of the admin.  so there is less and less food for players upon whom the game depends.  and if it will take a generation to fix the dearth of talent how is the wicb going to ensure that when almost every other sports offer far better rewards than they do.  what is the point of playing cricket in the west when the administration gets far more money out of the game than the players ::confused::

the cricket talent problem will never be fixed as long as there is a parasitic bureau in place..NEVER!  it is this way..the way the bureau functions as parasite and leech on the cricket that is responsible for the west indian fall from grace...the cricket is just about dead and cannot be resurrected unless the bureau is killed...and a way found to run the cricket that is socialist in nature, very voluntary, nevertheless becomes an unpaid sinecure that can be maybe to be very worthy in the society and career advancement
in this way we can have a continual flow of quality people flowing through the wicb at staggered 2 year intervals to ensure continuity, in clear programs that focuses on the development of the game and feeds it with 70-80% of the revenue it brings in

there are ways..but the establishment of a traditional bureau to run west indies cricket is counter-productive..it ensures its death as a burea does not ensure english cricket deaht for eg.  in the england of 65 million people and loads of revenue.. or OZ with 20 million people but a very rich nation.

that is the third reason..and basic it is

the old wicbc was basically a volunteer organization......and it worked magnificently.  those who ran the wicb did so on weekends when necessary.

they had independent incomes..those who ran the cricket.  we must get back to that principle in the cricket and much else.

but there is a whole lot hat must be done socially to improve the lot of all west indians to generate the quality of people and circumstances to get these working in successful ways that allows the available revenues to help meet the needs  fof achieving success while of benefit to all the population all along the way. 

people may be required to make  a sacrifice here or there for the general good and gain back advantage at other points along the way of such a life..like a national service..like if the nation is threatened men and women are required to give of their time in its defense.  we are not talking about violent warfare but building up the nation to prosperity and success which can be regarded as a war of a crucial kind in which the nation can collectivize and sacrifice to produce the success that all will share in equally as the wealth grows

it is in this wa..one way at least among many... we can produce the people and the circumstances in which we can solve a lot of social problems inclduding the cricket one

I don't find much about this chandrika lad..WHo is he..and has he done anything significant for WI ?

And why on earth are they still pursuing with samuels..He is a real pain in the ass..