2023-07-03 05:21:11
Don’t blame the current team for this collapse. The downfall of West Indies cricket did not start today or yesterday’ – the words of former pace bowler and commentator Ian Bishop after the West Indies failed to qualify for the ODI World Cup. Anyone familiar with Caribbean cricket will confirm Bishop’s words. Many dark clouds that have been rolling for a decade have now rained down on West Indies cricket.
Blindfold game
From domestic tournaments like the Four Day Tournament and the Super Fifty Tournament to the Caribbean Premier League, the West Indies has many competitions. Selection for the national team is from all these. But now there is no organized training system in the West Indies because of the many islands. This is one of the reasons why the West Indies have been lagging behind in Tests and ODIs, which require a little more planning, while producing better players in Twenty20s.
Regional republics
Cricket West Indies is made up of 6 territorial boards namely Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Leeward Islands Cricket Association and Windward Islands Cricket Control Board. Each board can be said to be a local republic. Their policy is to work independently and come together for convenience. Many local boards have an overabundance of politicians. The 49-member board of Trinidad and Tobago, which has contributed a lot of talent to West Indies cricket, has not even one person who has played cricket at the first-class level!
The match is up to FIFA
Cricket West Indies competes with ‘big players’ like FIFA in the field of sports business in the West Indies. Cricket tournaments in the West Indies now do not have the same color card as FIFA-sponsored football championships. The rotating board leadership does not plan to increase revenue.
(CB Gopalakrishnan, a native of Karunagapally, is the head of the St Lucia Cricket Association Marketing Committee)
English Summary: Disaster for West Indies in World Cup qualifiers
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