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West Indian Cricket: the decline and fall?

By Will 3 years ago, at the start of March Leave a comment on this post

Scyld Berry writes an impassioned article (past tense: wrote, this was yesterday) on the state of West Indian cricket. It really is in an utter mess, the following concerning me most:

At the training camp before their one-day-series tour of Australia this winter, 19 of the 25 players went on strike and refused to sign their tour contracts.

And:

The report on the tour by Digicel’s liaison man, Richard Nowell…concluded [they] were “the poorest ambassadors from any representative team I’ve come across”.

Ryan has more thoughts on this on his excellent WI-based blog, and you can read the entire depressing article here.

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