Greenidge: WI players keen on T20s only

He also pondered if players were committed to Test cricket. On comparing the present team to the ones he played with, he said, “I don’t see the intensity in players today -- the drive to represent the West Indies.

I could be wrong, but I don’t see it. To play in a Test match, in that arena, for the West Indies. That is the best, the thing you hope for as a cricketer. To see players with broad smiles after they’ve just lost a game.

That’s not on. A big no-no.” He continued, “it’s like people are thinking, we’ve lost, never mind, on to the next one. A team can’t not manage to make 200 in either innings and then go about the place smiling. It’s like it’s no big thing to lose a match. Every game should be played like it’s a final. You win, then you move on.” He pointed to the poor state of regional cricket as a major issue affecting players’ development and capability to ascend to the international level.

“Regional cricket has to be stronger.

At the moment it’s exceptionally weak, so it’s not going to produce the players you’re looking for for international cricket. How? I’m not certain, but something needs to happen. If it doesn’t happen, we’ll continue to be the way we are. It’s sad to see, but that’s the reality of it,” he said to ESPN.

I think the players are very interested in getting paid well for their efforts...

they are not getting paid by the wicb so to them the wicb is a simly showcase to get them into T20/ODI.

Elvin Lewis is prolly gone after his 148....maybe Hope the keeper/batsman.

if the wicb paid good money..and administered properly the players would play any form of he game.  cricket is their business, they are professional so any form of the game is fine.  but the wicb is like crime..crime don't pay!
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