West Indies Cricket Fans

Osman Samiuddin says:

Is there an international captain doing a more remarkable job than Darren Sammy? Misbah-ul-Haq has done wonders but he has a stronger talent pool and a healthier domestic structure to work with. Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rehman might do likewise but that is for the future.
There is little about Sammy that is ostensibly impressive. On numbers he is the kind of cricketer whose figures in retrospect prompt you to ask: so what was he, a bowler, batsman, both, neither? And why was he even selected, let alone appointed captain? And it is not that he has turned fortunes around entirely (two wins, four losses and seven draws as Test captain, 13 wins, 19 losses as ODI captain)
But something about the West Indies' persistent downwards slide has, if not been arrested, then slowed down under him.
What he has brought is difficult to pinpoint, but have they not looked more solid, more together, a little greater than the sum of their parts? Individually he has brought commitment, dignity and a sense of gratefulness to his role, a feeling that to be leader is to be honoured. None of that can be said of some of his recent predecessors.
And to be at the same time fair and optimistic, he does now have talent at his disposal. Darren Bravo, Kraigg Brathwaite, Devendra Bishoo, Kemar Roach and Fidel Edwards should be reason enough for cheer; add the experience of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, possibly the returning Chris Gayle and even Dwayne Bravo at some point to the Test side and that slide may yet become a steady upwards crawl.

look man I am pissed with all this sammy crap, associated with supposed westindian improvement.

who the hell is this fella writing here? wat he want.. westindies to remain down...praising sammy so that westindies keep the incompetent in place as captain?

man to hell with that crap and this idiot above here writing crap.

Ramdin would have done better than sammy as captain. he would do better job than sammy now. Ramdin appears to be a decent cappo.

and whatever the hell little improvement sammy may have brought is not enuff..way too little...a waste of time. there is in fact no damm progress in westindies cricket at all since sammy.

if dat jackass journalist got anything right is the unhealthiness of westindies cricket overall. it is sick... westindes cricket. look at the side to england, with how many piks due to corruption of the worst sort.

the sickest pick in westindies cricket I have seen since worrell is Powell. powell is like when the white regional powers selected players just because they were white. Dennis Atkinson, Eric Atkinson, John Goddard, The Grants, Robyn Bynoe, Paireadeua, Peter Bayley, Kenny Trestrail...all and more, terrible players who did not derseve to be on the side.

and now we have sammy himself, powell, fidel, samuels..all useless bloody players who do little or nothing for the westindies.

Powell is so bad his pick is worse than when Sobers packed up the 1966 team to england with players like his cousin Holford, Rawle Brancker etc. at least holford helped save westindies in a crucia test. but his pick was not worthy.

sammy is just as worthless. his selection is straight out of the corruption of westindies cricket that fella cited. sammy wasnt appointed on ability but becuase of who is in charge of westindies cricket.

how can a man out of corruption be any damm good? he is bound and limited by the same corruption.

he cant even get a better team to lead for if he speaks out about other corrupt selections... Powells for eg., or fidels...they will remind him of his own compromised, corrupt selection

if that jackass above cant speak accurate about westindies cricket he would be better served to write about what he knows and leave westindies cricket alone.


eff sammy. the faster he is out of the team on all levels the better the team can get!

mapoui wrote:the sickest pick in westindies cricket I have seen since worrell is Powell. powell is like when the white regional powers slected players just because they were white.

You do know that Powell had a higher average than your beloved Barath.

Arnik wrote:

mapoui wrote:the sickest pick in westindies cricket I have seen since worrell is Powell. powell is like when the white regional powers slected players just because they were white.

You do know that Powell had a higher average than your beloved Barath.

yes! apparently a higher average than you too. bwoy! do yu need to raise yours desperately

No FT, no comment.

howzdat wrote:No FT, no comment.

wat does FT mean. its prolly simple but I mus' raise my level too apparently!

the man keeps going orn and orn about Barath! why? dats silly.....

Barath have 3-4 dung heap tons.

he has many DH fiftys

he has scored many test fifties and 1 ton.

in this gauva season he is the man the selectors must stick with.

Baraths attitude has gone south along with his talent apparently. he has been injured a million times. he is still 22 years old but his avearge has fallen.

BUT BARATH IS NOT POWELL WHO HAS 1 SOLITARY TON AND 1 FIFTY IN A BUNCH OF DUNG {DU}HEAP MATCHES OVER AT LEAST 3 YEARS AND HE IS ALREADY 22.

POWELL SCORED I BIG FIFTY IN A BUNCH OF TESTS MATCHES, SO MANY HE ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY, COMPREHENSIVELY HAS PROVEN HIMSELF NOT UP TO STANDARD AND MUST BE DROPPED.

and the fus' thing armick joomps on is Powell average in the recent series is better that barath. !!!!!

wat does a comment like that prove?

2 players down somewhere in the teens of averages or less and one is better than the other... he is onto that!

who cares!

deh are both failures save one has proven he can do it... even if he cant do it now.. and maybe a nother chance will work.

while the other proven that he cant and does not deserve a chance.

but all of this is understood not so? but its a big deal with armickie

I really don't buy into this propaganda aobut progress under sammy....

Gayle's captaincy ended with three wins, nine losses, and eight draws. So far, Sammy has two wins, six losses, and seven draws. Let me reiterate - I don't think Gayle is a better captain than Sammy. But on the other side of the coin, I don't think Sammy's a better captain than Gayle.

After this tour of England, Sammy's win-loss record will be almost identical to Gayle's....

The real test of how much progress the Windies have made under Sammy will be at home to New Zealand this summer. Remember, under Gayle the Windies drew a three-Test series in New Zealand. We would need to beat the Kiwis at home in order to justify this talk of progress...

mapoui wrote:2 players down somewhere in the teens of averages or less and one is better than the other... he is onto that!

who cares. deh are both failures save one has proven he can do it... even if he cant do it now.. and maybe a nother chance will work.

while the other proven that he cant and does not deserve a chance.

Mr Mapoui, I am confident that Barath will come good on the England tour as long as he works closely with the WI batting coach, Toby Radford.

who the hell is this fella writing here? You can't recognize Jala after all these years.

From Daniel Bretig and Garth Wattley:

Darren Sammy (capt)
As a bowler he did not have the partnership-breaking impact as in past series but as a batsman and captain he flourished. Sammy put together his best collection of scores since taking over the captaincy. Batting at No. 8 - and in the case of the second-innings run chase in Trinidad, No.3 - he played to his strength and attacked, while being generally more selective of which balls to hit. Players responded well to his positive leadership.