It is irritating to see people blaming the new administration for our poor showing at the world cup. They should realise these are the fruits of seeds that were planted from previous administrations, namely the Cameron led CWI. 5 years after that controversial series in India and since Jason Holder has taken over captaincy, West Indies has slumped to it's lowest period in ODI cricket history. We failed to automatically qualify for the WC. We struggled to qualify from a group of associate teams. Teams like Afghanistan has been beating us on a consistent basis. In almost 5 years under holder we have never won an ODI series. 2019 has been one of our worst WC performances ever.
I am not saying we were world beaters but just before and during DJ Bravo's Captaincy we had a nice crop of players who were at least competitive with the big name teams around the world. I think we drew a series with Australia, we beat NZ, Only lost series 2-1 to Pakistan , India, England away, We blackwash Bangladesh , We also did the same to Zimbabwe. At the beginning of the abandoned tour we beat India by 124 runs. We had good players coming up the ranks and who were now finding their way in international cricket.
Then Boom came the india tour which arrogant and bias Dave Cameron totally mishandled. Bravo along with most of the players have never played or played with the windies team again on a consistent basis. Narine ,Bravo, Pollard,Gayle,Russell and Sammy went on to be the most sort after t20 cricketers world wide. Marlon became a Icon, Ramdhin lost his way, Rampaul went England and showed how good he was and Lil B got frustrated and called the boss a big idiot. These same guys won us the two t20 world cups.
Since then Holder took over and the board was run with biasness. Amateur cricketers like Ashley Nurse ,Jonathan Carter, Kyle Hope etc became household names because the board , selectors and the captain all selected teams based on biasness and politics. We never tried to get our best team on the field.
Skerritt has come in and tried to get the best team, but with the mess that was left by the last admin there is only so much he could do. Hopefully we would learn from our past and get politics out of our cricket and properly manage our main resource which is our players . We have great players coming through in Pooran, Hetty, Shai, Oshane, Paul,Joseph just to name some. Hope this crop is handled with care.
I am not saying we were world beaters but just before and during DJ Bravo's Captaincy we had a nice crop of players who were at least competitive with the big name teams around the world. I think we drew a series with Australia, we beat NZ, Only lost series 2-1 to Pakistan , India, England away, We blackwash Bangladesh , We also did the same to Zimbabwe. At the beginning of the abandoned tour we beat India by 124 runs. We had good players coming up the ranks and who were now finding their way in international cricket.
Then Boom came the india tour which arrogant and bias Dave Cameron totally mishandled. Bravo along with most of the players have never played or played with the windies team again on a consistent basis. Narine ,Bravo, Pollard,Gayle,Russell and Sammy went on to be the most sort after t20 cricketers world wide. Marlon became a Icon, Ramdhin lost his way, Rampaul went England and showed how good he was and Lil B got frustrated and called the boss a big idiot. These same guys won us the two t20 world cups.
Since then Holder took over and the board was run with biasness. Amateur cricketers like Ashley Nurse ,Jonathan Carter, Kyle Hope etc became household names because the board , selectors and the captain all selected teams based on biasness and politics. We never tried to get our best team on the field.
Skerritt has come in and tried to get the best team, but with the mess that was left by the last admin there is only so much he could do. Hopefully we would learn from our past and get politics out of our cricket and properly manage our main resource which is our players . We have great players coming through in Pooran, Hetty, Shai, Oshane, Paul,Joseph just to name some. Hope this crop is handled with care.