One West Indies team forever

When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.

In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.

For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.

The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.

Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.

In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.

For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.

The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.

Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.

In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.

For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.

The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.

Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
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A Bajan playing for Guyana  8)

Those players were West Indians who felt the need for money, talked about it, fought for it,

but never worshipped it, or sacrificed anything for it , including, possibly, West Indies cricket.



see the new dispensation of retainer contracts of 50K US$  for entire region ! :-[

Quote:[size=1.35em]Cricket can still teach us to live together as one people.[/size]
[size=1.35em]wishful thinking[/size]
[size=1.35em]The alternative would be disastrous, almost suicidal. Individually, the islands are too small to nurture an international cricket team on their own as there is not enough people, or enough money, to do so. It would only be wishful thinking, or a pipe dream, to even think of it.[/size]
[size=1.35em]The West Indies have to struggle on, and play on.[/size]
[size=1.35em]The present set of board members and players, and especially those who see money as the only thing, can never ever take the place of presidents like Stollmeyer, Rae, Walcott, and Pat Rousseau; of players like George Headley and Learie Constantine, Worrell, Weekes, Walcott, Ramadhin, and Valentine, Garry Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith, and Lance Gibbs, Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Jeffrey Dujon, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose, and Courtney Walsh.[/size]
[size=1.35em]Those players were West Indians who felt the need for money, talked about it, fought for it, but never worshipped it, or sacrificed anything for it, including, possibly, West Indies cricket.[/size][size=1.35em]Instead, they played cricket, they played for the territories and for the West Indies, and the memories of them live on, their greatness lasting forever.[/size]

Becca mad to rass.

Cricket teach us to live together as one people - is what planet he on. Mek he go find out what dem  bajan does do to he fellow Jamaicans when dem land Barbados??

The world has moved on. The Roman empire is long gone as is the British empire. So what if WI cricket breaks up?

So far the franchise system is pretty meaningless as teams continue to pick local players only.

So why Becca thinks that players like Sobers and Kanhai etc had to play all dem years in county cricket?? He think is because they loved cricket.

If dem fellas was playing today you better believe that they would be going after the money.

Quote:So why Becca thinks that players like Sobers and Kanhai etc had to play all dem years in county cricket?? He think is because they loved cricket.

Playing in County Cricket sharpened their skills, especially since they were playing against people from all over.  There can be no denying that.

So perhaps they did love cricket and it was their full time job

Most went to play county cricket to make a living - it was their job.

But if they were playing today I am quite sure most would seize the opportunity to play in the IPL given the money on offer.