The interesting debate is this...will the success of Walcott, and the continued decline of the West Indies team, result in sports fans from the eastern Caribbean shifting their focus on heroes away from cricket and towards athletics? I saw that trend when I visited BIm in September and April, and that surprised me, because Barbados always was the headquarters of cricket. And with the politics surrounding WI cricket, will talented young sports men and women feel that they have a better chance of unfettered success if they choose athletics instead of cricket?
mike: I see international athletics as cuttign adge administration
the big countries look for talent globally, bring it home, train it, give university education
the global athletic admininstration facilitates this and creates showcases for developing and developed talent.
smaller countries..Cuba, Venezuela, Jamaica are utterly creative in developing world class talent with small respources.
and there are lots of rewards for talent at all levels. the least players come out with would be university educations and exposure to the entire world, contacts everywhere. that makes for excellent professional futures for all in their jobs/careers.
while athletics, basketball, tennis, golf..are looking for the best talent and relentlessly bringing it forward..wicb are selecting players for who they are not what they bring to the game. their criteria for selecting the captain is where he is from and his supine character and lap dog outlook.
similarly for coach and all his assistants...and all the officials of the wicb. the wicb is a stink, wretched, anachronistic organsation, constructed for life in the 19teenth century, not in this current world.
that is why westindies cricket has failked utterlay, miserably since the neo-colonisiast, ore-cookie blac eliets ascended to the cricket throne since 1995. they brought total failure and ruin to westindies cricket..instituted a decline so deep that it seems well set to become the westindian way now.
not even englands old decline back in the eighties anfd ninties of the last centurey was as deep, dark and hopeless as this current westindian decline.
piss on westindies cricket administration. it is the most disgusting spectacle in internbational sports at this time in the hisotry of the human bean band
He's right about the politics though and he's obviously implying WI cricket there with those statements. I could also see a decline in sportsmen going after cricket especially in Trinidad since after this Gold Medal we'll be developing alot of athletes in field events more such as shot put, long jump, triple jump, pole jump etc..
