T20 cricket has destroyed West Indies cricket: Sir Garfield Sobers

I don't fully agree with this statement at all. West Indies cricket was destroyed before t20 cricket took off and t20 might actually be the savior of West Indies cricket when we no longer rank as a test playing nation and struggle to maintain odi status.

Sobers is an idiot you know.  that is why they have him there,on the inside, quoted all the time.

pick a really intelligent, truthful former cricketer, if there is one... and ask him what he thinks is responsible for destroying west indies cricket ::confused::

I would bet a large sum of money that his opinion would not be printed..but Sobers will!

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I am probably in the minority, but I do think that T20 cricket has had a negative impact on a number of teams, including West Indies. Players today have the option of making a very good living and career out of simply playing T20 cricket. They can travel the world playing the IPL, CPL, Big Bash and the forthcoming Pakistan Super League. As such, they have no need or desire to play first class cricket for a fraction of the pay.

The impact can be seen on West Indies, India and Sri Lanka. There are obviously a number of reasons why this is the case, but I do think the lack of interest from the games best players in playing first-class cricket plays some role in this.

your approach makes some sense Dilly but that is not the real problem with west indies cricket.  T20 has had an impact, but other nations have acted to neutralize that impact on their cricket.

the players of other nations are still wedded to the best interests of their national cricket. but  in the west indies the wicb is not, relative to the west indies, wedded to it ie, in a positive way, and has not made life better for west indian players but worse.  the wicb has gone so far, as to infiltrate and sabotage the WIPA and have turned it into an instrument against players best interests, and have also proceeded to reduce player wages to ridiculous sums as far as I know.

there is no way in hell west indian players can have loyalty and commitment to west indies cricket now, even the youth now being selected.  they must be aware that they are mere appendages to a system that bleeds them to death for the benefit of the administration

in the face of T20 the rest of the world appears to have made successful accommodation to the new day..T20.  they have upgraded conditions for their players, increased their wages substantially and have not sabotaged their representation.

the rest of the cricket world has adjusted positively to the reality of the day...T20 cricket.  the opposite has happened in the west indies.  west indies have adjusted by intensification of war with the players and the maximizing of their exploitation by the wicb

so before we talk about the negative impact of T20 on west indies cricket we must talk about what the wicb has done to enslave west indies cricket that has forced our best players to stick to global T20 to make a decent living in the game they play.  they wont be able to do that playing for the west indies.  all cricket players can be in the west indies now are slaves to the wicb.  and all the governments have sat around and let it happen.

I don't know who is protecting and backing Skameron, but he and the wicb admin have no fear of regional politicians and any regional power at all.  they have built an unconscionable reality at Factory road that has bled west indies cricket to death.  hey did it out in the open, we all could not help but see and know and we let it happen.  now we have all but lost our cricket but it is our fault.  if we wanted to keep our cricket and have it up at the top, we would have cleansed the wicb long ago and made it into an institution capable of and focused on the development of the cricket..not the pockets of a stinking little rapacious and parasitic bureaucracy up in antigua

it is not T20 cricket that has destroyed west indies cricket but the wicb has destroyed west indies cricket.

T20 is merely a new form of the game that is what 10 years old ::confused::

the administrative bullsh!t that has finally destroyed west indies cricket has been going on for a long time and really picked up steam with the accession of black west indians into the control of the cricket.  that is a feature of west indies cricket that s 20 years old dating back to the rise of Pat Roseau in 1995.

since black west indians have been in charge of cricket they have turned back the clock to the days of old colonialism when the players were virtually slaves and led to the actions of players Frank Worrell who catergorically refused to play for the slave wages he was paid.  west indies cricket has morphed back into the past while the rest of the world has been moving ahead. 

all of this has absolutely nutten to do with T20 and everything to do with rapacious black men feeding off west indies cricket and running the cricket in ways that suits their greed and not the development of the game and the proper treatment of west indian players.  the west indian administration..wicb.. behaves like a forrin group of people parachuted into the west indies to run cricket who have no traditional, historical, familial, blood and social connection to the region, and so do not have to worry about the real social effects their policies have on the people of the region and our general prospects in the world

the wicb has ruined west indies cricket..the wicb directly but with the support of the west indian black elites who sat around and let the members of the wicb do as they pleased with a national treasure..west indian cricket and never lifted a serius finger.  a pox on all their houses

Mapo...ox farm mon...not ox ford don....Sah Gary...make believe ox ford don.  OBE...und BS. :'(

T20...just as well WD40....scapegoat...test, 20, tapeball...doesn't matter...Rastas Chinese fertilizer.  ::dead::

Sir Garfield Sobers needs to move away from the past when West Indies was a great test nation and start to embrace the future where West Indies is a great t20 nation. Times and circumstances change and we should be thankful that t20 cricket has come to save us because West Indies wouldn't be world champion again if it wasn't for t20.