Kraigg Brathwaite... Paint..as west indian captain is a ridiculous concept. Paint is a non-entity. does he even have a personality different to a glass of milk/
I mean even Sobers the Tom had personality. Sobers stood for things antithetical to the interest of Black people the world over, even actualized this nastiness, hugging Ian Smith publicly even as he killed Black people by the many in Rhodesia.
Sobers was the most hard-headed and stubborn skunt imaginable. he fucked up royally but would not lissen, refused to apologize to defuse the problem he had stupidly created.
Kanhai the furious, Griffith the monster fast bowler, Worrell..all these guys were roiling people looking for some kind of freedom to be themselves, even where they were reactionary anti nationalists.
I have been looking for some spark in these current guys, in this team, but there is none. this team is the perfect product of the cricket bureaucracy. all the players like the old ones, the legends, have been sidelined. Dwaye Bravo, Gayle, Russell, Sammy..all out of west indian representative teams. those guys are not necessarily revolutionary ideologically. whatever they are ideologically they they are true personalities, people who live like who they are mostly. they are more like real west indians.
the current west indies team is full of automatons. this must be like what A.I or Borg people will look like. only Sunil Ambris appears to have something real about himself...Hetmeyer?
but they must have some brains too..like Kanhai had brians, Nurse, Butcher, Richardson, Richards, Greenidge, Haynes..so they can put their talents to good use. its as if they have been lobotomized, this west indies team
this west indian team is a travesty, a joke being played on us all, a team that will win nothing, except to get worse, to wither away like fat in a kitchen sink, when the hot water is turned on to melt that fat down the drain, before you use the soap to cut the remaining residue that stains the sink