Cozier is Either Old and Senile..Or......

Still sharp and as manipulative as ever.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/con...00549.html

Quote:Problems are never far away in West Indies cricket; they have come in profusion for two decades now. The latest is the real possibility of failure to qualify for the 2017 Champions Trophy in England, and the fallout that could follow.

As tenuous as it has become and as demeaning as it is for a team that that once utterly dominated the international game, West Indies value their status among the top eight international teams more than ever. To be absent in England two years hence would further damage the already diminishing interest of players and public, both now under the spell of T20.

there are a ton of assumptions and statemenets in there that these days demands some support

'for the last 2 decades trouble never far from the surface'  why tony..care to spec ::confused::

'west indies value their status in the top 8 more than ever'  really tony ::confused::  you really going to have to try to prove that tony.  that claim cries out for proof. why........?

because if it really benefited those who run west indies to be in the top 8 they would be making every effort not only to be in the top 8 but at the top of 8. but they are not are they...making such effort. and if not why not....... ::confused::

they only possible answer is that whatever goals and benefit they have in mind are met in other directions..that cricket success for the west indies is not a priority for them so their consequent effort to produce success is miniscule

"The 50-overs game appears to be an afterthought. Where it stands in the scheme of things was evident at the World Cup;

[size=1em]West Indies were the only team without an appointed head coach"[/size]



Mapoui , Cozier agrees with you ?? NO head Coach ??  :-\

he is not agreeing with me..he is lamenting no head coach and uses it as a sign of administrative disarray.

but it is not disarray is it ::confused:: ::confused::

Quote:It led to an extension of the 2014-15 first-class season for the new, franchised Professional Cricket League (PCL) from one round to two, with the number of teams restricted to the six originals. It gave each team ten matches rather than five; the status quo remained for the 50-overs tournament.

Along the way, there have been six different sponsors. As the Red Stripe Cup, the semi-finals and finals were staged in Jamaica, home of the beer that bore its name; in 2014, the board signed a three-year agreement with an insurance company, and received financial support from the government, to locate all Nagico Super50 matches exclusively in Trinidad & Tobago. There has been no consistency, no continuity. The 50-overs game appears to be an afterthought.

Where it stands in the scheme of things was evident at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in February and March; West Indies were the only team without an appointed head coach. It left a new, young captain to deal on his own with key senior players seething over the omission of the perceived leaders of the Indian tour pull-out.

The cumulative effects of such disorganisation and disorder have inevitably led to the present predicament.

this is just manipulative lamentation.

Cozy does not give us proper analysis nor proposed corrective.  it is really hard reading this old arse anymore.

why do I bother
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Quote:They have had no ODIs in the interim, no chance to clamber back onto firmer ground. There is not even a domestic 50-overs tournament before their next international engagement, a three-way series in Zimbabwe in late August, when their matches against Pakistan, their erratic equivalent, will settle the last remaining Champions Trophy place.

again Tony...why the lack of planning..indeed for any perceived useful and important west indian cricket goal ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

Cozier should be awarded a spot in a retirement villa on some Island