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June 26, 2023 will be remembered by fans of cricket and in particular those who support the West Indies team as another dark day. It was a day orange was the new maroon. It was a day an Associate Member team humiliated a West Indies team by scoring 374 runs to tie a 50 over game in an ongoing competition and finally won it in a super over. A super over which saw Jason Holder struck for 30 runs.

On July 13, 2009 a blog titled The Darkest Day In West Indies Cricket was posted by Barbados Underground. Not many West Indian cricket fans would have envisaged the precipitous decline in our cricket thirteen years later. Baby boomers in the BU household who were fortunate to witness triumphant West Indies cricket teams of the 70s and 80s have had to stop being fans of regional cricket, including the blogmaster.

To be honest the blogmaster feels unqualified to unpack the may problems obviously affecting West Indies cricket. What cannot be refuted is that the passion with which former players from the golden era played the game has long faded. The game has been commodified and our top players from all reports are paid very well, BUT, the passion that is a prerequisite to give of ones best is gone.

To excel as a prominent figure in any field necessitates adopting the most effective management methodologies along with their comprehensive implications. Regrettably, the composition of the Board of Management (WIBC), responsible for the supervision of West Indies cricket, does not adhere to the principles that parallel the operational prowess of prosperous institutions. Astonishingly, the selection process for Directors within the WIBC revolves solely around membership in exclusive circles, driven by capricious desires and aspirations of individuals yearning for recognition and wealth.

BU Blog 2009

Like sugar the blogmaster believes cricket is dead. Many of our regional institutions have started to struggle to deliver on mandates. Whether it is CARICOM, UWI, LIAT, CXC, CDB to name those top of mind. Some may insist that mismanagement of regional economies by governments have created a difficult environment in which to excel. The demise of West Indies cricket should therefore not be critiqued in a vacuum. How have our leaders in the political and NGO spheres brought us here? Has the lack of advocacy by the citizenry helped to hasten the rot in regional institutions?

A reminder what is the Mission of Cricket West Indies (CWI) – To lead, inspire and unite cricket in the West Indies from thriving grassroots to exciting West Indies teams, ensuring sustainable success.

The global media has been reveling at the indifferent performers being trotted out by the once mighty West Indies team with mocking headlines. At least one Prime Minister in the region – Rowley from Trinidad – has been quoted as saying, “Today I saw THE WORST CRICKET MATCH ever played by a West Indies team”. Should Rowley have recalled instead the question posed by late Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Sandiford when he asked – how did we get here? Everything is out of control”, “it did not happen yesterday”.

Orange is the new maroon.

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315 responses to “West Indies Cricket – regional institutions in decline”

  1. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    I’ve a trend developing on Facebook’s WI cricket blogs, whereby contributors, especially Guyanese, have been continuously making hate filled verbal attacks against Bajan cricketers, and Barbadians, by extension. They’re accusing Haynes of selecting too many Bajans, whom they described as ‘backyard cricketers, misfits and sellouts.’ That ‘those people,’ (Bajans), believe they should be controlling WI cricket. Holder’s 30 runs super over made a ‘bad situation worse,’ as they are calling for Haynes and Hope to resign…… and all Barbadian cricketers dropped. I agree the Haynes led selection panel should resign, based primarily on the fact they made some very poor selections.

  2. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    The Guyanese Indians believe Chanderpaul should’ve been selected as WI Coach, Guyanese crickers, Indians, are always overlooked for selection…… and accused CWI as being a racist organisation. Some are saying WI team should be renamed the Barbados Cricket Team, but, WI women’s team is ‘balanced,’ simply because 5 Guyanese were selected. However, that team should not be similarily renamed. These examples clearly indicate one of the problems facing WI cricket, is ‘deep rooted’ insularity.

  3. Gregory D Cumberbatch Avatar
    Gregory D Cumberbatch

    Cricket starts with administration, players and fans, now it seems as though regional governments are injecting their choices, based on their respective citizens. I don’t have an answer for the poor performances of these teams other than these players are not good. They are not consistent, they will bowled and bat well one day and the next they don’t look like they know how to play the game. This exists with every player no matter where they come from. Cricketers should run cricket, not lawyers, doctors, Bankers etc.
    Another area that should be improved are training facilities, Cricket is played on various. surfaces, yet we train on the same surface for all formats. Personally, I would love to see some young players injected ito the teams at all formats, we have the tendency to call up players in their thirties and that should be a no no.. So I depart saying Thanks for the memories that I grew up with former West Indies cricket, I’m afraid that I will never see it again.

  4. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE The Guyanese Indians believe Chanderpaul should’ve been selected as WI Coach,
    WELL WHO COULD FAULT THEM?
    I AM SURE HE HAS MORE TO OFFER THAN SAMMY GIBSON SIMMONDS OR REIFER

    CHANDERPAUL HAS NOT BEEN TREATED WELL OR FAIRLY

    RE Some are saying WI team should be renamed the Barbados Cricket Team,
    SOME MIGHT SAY IN INDIA THAT THE INDIAN TEAM SHOULD BE CALLED THE BOMBAY OR MUMBAI TEAM TOO
    THERE WAS A TIME WHEN ENGLAND WAS STRONG WHEN YORKSHIRE WAS STRONG

    BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT FROM THE VERY EARLIEST DAYS THE WI CRICKET TEAM WAS USUALLY COMPOSED MAINLY OF BAJANS., AND IT HAS TENDED TO CONTINUE TO BE SO
    ONE REMEMBERS THAT THEY WERE 9 BAJANS OF 16 PLAYERS ON BOTH THE 63 & 66 TOURS TO ENGLAND

    THE GUYANESE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT WHEN THEY HAD THREE MEMBERS OF THE TEST TEAM – ALL FROM BERBICE- THAT THE COACH OF THE BERBICE TEAM WAS ONE C L WALCOTT. AND THAT TWO OTHERS OF THEIR GREATEST TEST PLAYERS (LLOYD & GIBBS) ARE OF BAJAN HERITAGE.

  5. GP Avatar
    GP

    RE we have the tendency to call up players in their thirties and that should be a no no
    THE AUSTRALIAN FAST BOWLER BOLAND WAS CALLED UP AT AGE 35 AND HE HAS DONE VERY WELL…………….BECAUSE HE IS DISCIPLINED, AND HAS BEEN SO FOR MANY MANY YEARS

    RE Cricket starts with administration, players and fans,
    REALLY?
    TRAVEL THROUGH THE ISLANDS….TRAVEL THROUGH OUR ISLAND AND SEE THE THOUSANDS OF LITTLE BOYS THAT ARE NOT PLAYING BAT AND BALL

    RE Cricketers should run cricket, not lawyers, doctors, Bankers etc.
    REALLY?
    MOST OF OUR CRICKETERS CAN NOT PUT TWO SENTENCES TOGETHER, HOW WILL THEY PUT FORWARD A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR CRICKET?

    WI women’s team is SUFFERING BECAUSE SOMEHOW THEIR BEST PLAYER EVER HAS RETIRED PREMATURELY

    IS IT POSSIBLY BECAUSE SHE WAS OFFENDED BY NOT BEING MADE THE CAPTAIN?
    WAS SHE LOOKED OVER FOR THIS BECAUSE SHE AROSE FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS? I WONDER.?
    I HAVE A STRONG OPINION ON THAT

  6. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David, playing badly (lacking tactical awareness and poor skill execution) will ALWAYS be considered a dark day … so undoubtedly the WI did such but for all that we must put everything in context.

    1.These ridiculous insular selection debates are and have always been BS … so really not sure why anyone pays attention to it.

    Thrashing the many Bajans on the WI team or that we always seeking control is a timeless rant … the only consolation is that others have gotten serious lashes too 😎: the Jamaicans took much heat when Rosseau did run things (and TOTALLY remodeled evathing) thus for a while it was the reggae way or the highway … basically all the way to World Cup with Dehring and den down the road when Gayle and Hinds were large and in charge.

    I mean gee, since the ‘islands’ fellas took over on the field and then lata took over in the board room under Hunte … EVERYBODY and their son (and daughters now too) have gotten serious licks about selection, favoritism and all dat … so fah real lets wheel and get real …it’s more BS than reason… dismiss the nonsense.

    Now that game was rough . When I checked the score they were five down needing over 150 at 6+ so I smiled happily and went on with life… so yeah, I was shocked to read that we lost in a super over … so shocked that I have not read reports or looked at the ‘low’ lights replay.

    But I am a realist… the guys played poorly but that does not mean they lack the will , heart or desire to perform for the fans and THEMSELVES!

    Neither can we get into this folly of calling for whole scale firings after every poor performance … if players are past their playing best then by all reason they will be removed.

    But also stop for a moment and let’s accept the ironies… is this the same ‘or-range’ who were some of the FIRST to employ WI coaches like de BajanTrotman way back in the 80s!

    Just as ironic as when we thrashed England (repeatedly) after they were the first to employ and enrich WI players!

    Life is like dat …

    Not making excuses for the shocking defeat as it will surely be absurdly annoying if we again miss out on a limited overs world tournament …

    It’s painfully real and really painful… but life is like dat too!

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Some will say it is a reasonable ask to call for sackings at every level given the lack of success. How long is too long if what we have been doing is obviously wrong?

  8. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Ha! Not painful for me. I don’t even know when they are playing. A very significant part of my enjoyment of life is no more. But hey, life goes on and there is music on youtube.

    Just last week I told my son that I don’t know when last I saw little children outside playing cricket. Most of the open spaces are gone. Cricket is played at school during lunch and at official practice.

    Our cricket is not coming back. It was great while it lasted.

    Next!

  9. John Avatar
    John

    In Barbados interest in cricket started at the sugar factories.

    Each had their own cricket ground nearby.

    For example, Wakefield Factory had its ground on the other side of the road, Applewhaites a bit further to the east of it in the grass piece on the left going to Jehovah Jireh.

    There were 49 sugar factories at one time.

    One of the reasons cricket was played in the dry season was because that was when cane was milled and the factories were humming with the exertions of young men with skills from Barbados and Guyana who enjoyed and loved the sport.

    Enjoyment and love!!

    Today, our guys are in it for the money.

    My Grandfather told me YMPC was started by the owners of Kingsland Factory. The Evelyns owned the Bay Estate at the time.

    The pitch on the small pasture above the house at Kingsland is still visible. I played on it as a boy growing up, but the area is small.

    Naturally, factory workers could not be members of Wanderers and were mostly coloured.

    As cricket developed in Barbados, more and more became involved. Sugar was the unifying force which created West Indies Cricket as young men with skills travelled between territories in search of factory employment in the crop season.

    Somewhere along the line the players lost the love for and enjoyment of the game and the administrators stepped in.

  10. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Here we go again with the periodic groaning, moaning and gnashing of teeth

    Stick a fork in um it’s done.

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    These are dangerous cultural dynamics.

    That the glue which has held this region together becomes unstuck, in the best of times, the worst of times, must be evidence that the center cannot hold.

    From politics to cricket. From Sunday school to whatever, things keep going downhill, even as some are guided that we never had it so good.

    The irony is that only today weeee see England v Australia at Lords with both sides playing West Indian style attacking cricket ……….. in a test match. Reverse sweeps and all. In two first innings.

    Even as diehards still hold that Vic Richards couldn’t bat because he cross-halled .

    What a thing!

    But just like in politics, in cricket the same backward, respectable, kakistocratic, assholes have succeeded in strangling this English game in these islands to death.

    And the English are having the last laugh. For done are the days when a West Indian braggart could pretend to want to rule the cricketing world for a thousand years, as empire!

  12. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Exactly!

  13. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Viv Richards cross-hauled to show them that he could.

    Calypso Cricket has a new name!
    It is named after – that former New Zealand cricketer whose name I cannot remember but whose nickname was Baz. He’s England’s new coach. The bloody English are playing CALYPSO CRICKET!

    Fancy that!

    On the bright side, the coloniser’s water infrastructure is decaying and not delivering just like ours. And the sewage is running into rivers. It’s a stinking mess. Greedy capitalists run the companies they took over from the government into the ground, hiked the rates, did not invest in infrastructure, paid oversized dividends, ran up debt. Some companies on the verge of collapse.

    In ENGLAND! It is almost….

    “Water water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.”

    Let them drink beer!

    But pubs are closing everywhere!

    Hear ye, hear ye! The idea that everything would be better run if the colonisers were still in charge is hereby debunked.

    The English are crying out just as we are.

    No affordable housing. NHS collapsing, INFLATION has the food banks full.

    Brexit bombed! Their politicians are all idiots.

    “These savages don’t know how to govern themselves!”

    Murdaaaah!

    Welcome to the jungle!

  14. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Talk loud, saying something {TLSS}. Perhaps we’ll ‘wait in vain,’ hoping to ‘observe’ a Guardian or Aljerezza article, further explaining what has been outlined above.

  15. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Artax,

    We dare not hold our breath.

  16. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Interesting that not even that they can upkeep. King of cricket for a while then SPLAT..expertise poisoned by twisted local colonial politics….Failures at everything. Maybe they will finally stop being followers/sheep, copiers, beggars, borrowers and dependents.

    Hopefully those who are freeminded can lead that charge for themselves and the likeminded. Anything else will fail AGAIN. A new slave master will dictate…that’s what they do…so around and around they go…can’t jump off the merry-go-round..wat a ting.

  17. Al Jazeera ( you can call me Al) Avatar
    Al Jazeera ( you can call me Al)

    Don’t hold your breath.

    I was reading an article where this Sammy guy referred to a team that just kicked the WI’s butt as “minnows”.

    The team may have been minnows, but it is time that the WI team accept that the team is no shark and should not pretend to be one.

    It’s a third rate team and an easy win for any team.

    The WI team is just relying on memories of a time past. They are trading on and damaging a name that was established by our cricketing greats.

    Minnows? A minnow hit 30 off our super bowler of the super over… Jesus! Guy had me thinking of the great Sir Garfield Sobers.

    I am suggesting a name change (retroactive). Let’s change the records of the past 20 years and have the Caribbean United Nations Team Selection in the book.
    (Do you get it 😢)

    Ladies and gentlemen, please excuse me..”Minnows? GTFOH”

  18. Al (Jazeera) Avatar
    Al (Jazeera)

    Did you notice my approach to our cricket problem. I did not go down the country, coach or team route.

    It is time for us to abandon the game of cricket. Let’s face it .. the team is not getting any better; the more matches we play, the worse we look. I cannot take anymore. I was never a fan of cricket and this losing streak is depressing the hell out of me.

    Can’t they just stop and walk away from the game. This is beginning to hurt badly.

    It would not surprise me if a school team put some serious licks in the great WI team. I think HC should challenge the WI team to a match and for the fun of it have the match scored by CXC. Midway in the match you will hear the game is a draw, CXC lost the score sheet.

    Father in heaven, you promised that you would give us no more than we could bear and then you gave us this team.

  19. Al (Jazeera) Avatar
    Al (Jazeera)

    My last good deed for the day

    David
    Obscure Corner -> Jokes -> Really Bad Jokes-> Jokes to make you cry -> I want to be punished -> WI Cricket

  20. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @Dub555, chill !

    Yes Darren Sammy’s reported remarks were annoying and a PR folly but he is entitled to his slip of the tongue… it’s a perfect example of the same BS hubris seen by England and de Aussies towards WI in eons past.

    We talk about massa and all dat but given half a chance we adopt their narratives and mentality with damning ease… hopefully the new coach learns to channel his intelligence and cricket sensibilities much better.

    But on the specifics, as a cricket follower (I presume u are), limited overs cricket is obviously the most likely method for developing teams to beat the developed powers.

    Holder, hopefully, will reassess that over and return better – one can only imagine. He is certainly not the first top rate bowler to get slaughtered like that since Sobers v Nash; cue the tape: Stokes vrs Brathwaite T20 World Cup, Lee vrs Gayle, Champions League etc.

    So chill … we will be back… maybe not before some of us move on 😎 but surely we will… the talent is still there and ideally the will to represent their ‘nation’ continues to reignite fires of passion!

  21. Al (Jazeera) Avatar
    Al (Jazeera)

    My bout of depression was over and along came dpD promising years of failure and mediocrity.

    Going to fire up my GPS and look for the nearest cliff

  22. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    CWI is a private organisation registered in the Cayman Islands. All territorial cricket associations are private organisations as well, even though the respective ‘governments’ of each territory may offer them financial assistance from time to time. In 2017, the ‘goverment’ of Antigua & Barbuda partnered with CWI to purchase Sanford’s ‘Sticky Wicket Ground,’ which was subsequently renamed, ‘Coolidge Cricket Ground.’ Political involvement in cricketing matters goes against ICC rules. Remember what happened when Gonsalves, Mitchell, et al, wanted to meet with the ICC. To suggest cricket was “poisoned by twisted by local colonial politics” is NONSENSE.

  23. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Please!! Not HC, I believe ‘Waterford University,’ or even Ellerslie, which has also produced several talented cricketers would be better choices.

  24. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    I dont see anyone taking identity thieves seriously ever again, let alone discoursing with them…only the likeminded would stoop that low.

  25. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Oh boy!!!! Why they does allow that miserable, demented woman to hijack EVERY DAMN blog and run them into the gutter and toilet?

  26. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Sachin Tendulkar – $165 Million (INR 1350 Crore) – Richest Cricketer
    MS Dhoni – $125 Million (INR 1030 Crores) – Richest Cricketer
    Virat Kohli – $122 Million (INR 1010 Crore) – Richest Cricketer
    AB de Villiers- $25 million – Richest Cricketer
    Ricky Ponting – $70 million – Richest Cricketer
    Brian Lara – $60 million – Richest Cricketer
    Chris Gayle – $45 million – Richest Cricketer
    Jacques Kallis – $ 110 million – Richest Cricketer
    Sourav Ganguly – $80 Million – Richest Cricketer
    Shane Watson – $40 million – Richest Cricketer

  27. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Lest we forget, Rome wasn’t built in a day.
    In the mid 70s, amidst a mass of local and regional talent, one of the most exciting batsmen, unable to crack the WI squad, accepted a coaching job in the Netherlands.
    Nolan Clarke would end up, 20 yrs later, scoring 100+ vs Bermuda to secure the Dutch first entry at higher levels. And by now well into his 40s get to play at the International level. (finally)
    A further 25 yrs on, the Orange have continued to improve. They took Clarke’s countryman for 30 in a single over.
    Nolan Clarke must be very proud today 😊😊

  28. Play The Ball Avatar
    Play The Ball

    https://www.facebook.com/RadicallyPosse/videos/mikey-jarrett-play-the-ball-in-new-york-style-bullwackies/1130842723624939/

  29. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    No George Challenor Stand

  30. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Chris Gayle in the Tdot

  31. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    While regional institutions are in decline the empire has receded into Jim Crow type racism with a recent Affirmative Action decision by a racist Supreme Court.

    While some walk around with wokeism in their heads as idiots.

    With this decision, historical injustices are again given full vent.

    So race cannot now be a consideration in university admissions, as established by the Warren Court. Indeed, this court seeks to upend all the decisions of Earl Warren.

    Of course the racists and their Black lackeys, like here on BU, will find a justification with the removal of one ‘legacy’ but the legacy of injustice on which the wicked USA was founded is given another lease on life.

    So while we’re distracted by bulling and foolishness, the American highest court is giving it to Black children in the posterior.

  32. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    In a provably racist country, racism does not exist in the Court’s vacant mind.

  33. Yolande Grant -African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant -African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Saw that decision mentioned. The president said it’s not a real court…or something close.

    The Slaves were begging to be shackled again…hopefully they are the only ones feeling those chains with whips on their backsides and backs…no one else. …they have yearned for it for all the years i have been traversing social media. (muscle memory???)..soon come.

    They need to show appreciation and respect for what their ancestors suffered…one way or the next.

  34. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Waru
    Yes, so while development begs for IMF money, at the centre of empire, it a rotting stack of racist worms.

    This determination should take precedence over all others by even titularly Black countries.

    We can start by banning all American or Western media, period!0

    We’ve long said that these countries are fascist still. But not even these overt determination in favour of White supremacy will get a look in by Black misleadership class members.

  35. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    Pacha…there is a horrible situation playing out at KFC Oistins.

    789 Whatsapp group has the videos…of course the photo op is for the politician who are well aware they are the direct CAUSE of every crime and injustice perpetrated on workers in the country….they enable and support it or these things could never happen.

    Then got the nerve to gush about celebrating 50 years of Caricom crimes against humanity….and all the evil directed at the African population in Barbados….all this time.

    .then Karma stepped to the front of the line and EXPOSED THEM…for their fraud.

  36. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    We’ve had new forms of slavery, still!

  37. Karma and Why We're Here Avatar
    Karma and Why We’re Here

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  38. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    I was trying to remember his name. Clarke had a son, whose first name I cannot remember at this time, but know his surname is Stuart, who also play cricket in Holland.

  39. Yolande Grant - African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved. Avatar
    Yolande Grant – African Online Publishing Copyright (c) 2023. All Rights Reserved.

    That is why Barbados’ slave society Directors are running around everywhere trying to promote themselves……gliding
    across world stage pretending they got influence to fool the world, even though no one is buying their fake act and slick talk….they then get to control the slaves through fear, and create new laws to imprison whomever talks…well not this time….

    The WHOLE WORLD will find out how dangerous to humans they are, they can get vex, put the stupid little slaves to attack and complain, no matter what they do, the whole world will know..i can clap back bigger and better……they are nothing but wannabe slave masters selling out people so they can stay in power…wickedness…they dont have the intelligence to do better, neither will opportinists want to, they are too greedy and criminal….a slave society driver wanting world influence, what the hell…

    As i said on another space, they all want hanging…imagine in this day and age, the 21st century, these beasts want to keep who looks like them, as Slaves generationally and believe they can continue hiding it…look how they were exposed to the world yesterday..

    That level of pure condensed evil should not be on our earth, let alone any Empires funding it….it’s an embarrassment, just like them.

  40. John Avatar
    John

    West Indies vs. Scotland,

    WI are 141 for 6 after 31 of their 50 overs.

    Best WI can reach is 280 given the position of the game and depending on how the lower order delivers.

    Tough times ahead as these days 280 is an easy target.

    Even 374 is within reach these days.

    https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-qualifier-2023-1377745/scotland-vs-west-indies-23rd-match-super-six-1377769/full-scorecard

  41. Ball N' Chain Avatar
    Ball N’ Chain

    The Harlem Stars
    This is a Big Mama Thornton Song called Ball N’ Chain

    Sitting by my window,
    And I was looking out at the rain.
    Sitting by my window Babe,
    And I was sitting down, looking out at the rain.
    You know something struck me,
    Clamped on to me just like, just like a ball and chain.

    I said Oh, Oh Baby,
    Why do you wanna do all these mean things to me?
    I said Oh, Oh Baby, why do you wanna do,
    Why do you wanna do all these things to me?
    Because you know I love you,
    And I’m so sick and tired, so sick and tired of being in misery.
    Hey Hey, ball and chain

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Thanks John. To be beaten by Scotland will reinforce we have a bigger problem?

  43. John Avatar
    John

    WI all out for 181 in 41 overs.

    Unless the wicket is real bad or the bowlers deliver, WI out of the World Cup.

    Rain could stop play and Duckworth Lewis might help but at the moment, WI look to be beaten by Scotland.

    Scotland could bat badly so there are ways but not worth the aggravation following.

    England and Australia however very worthwhile following.

  44. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Better that they get knocked out. Perhaps all the pompasetting fools in the WICB would then have a Damascus moment.

  45. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    DPD,

    Mental slavery and brainwashing have long been acknowledged as real. No surprise that some of us mimic massa’s superior attitude, demeaning language and discriminatory behaviour.

    I think Sammy’s was a slip of the tongue because that’s what the media always called them though.

  46. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    David, I’m not surprised. WI struggled to beat USA. Poor fielding and bowling. I assumed they would’ve lost the remaining, because the quality of their game was steadly on the decline.

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    A Breakdown of Black Men

    Is racism a team sport?
    Dr. Frances Cress Welsing believes black males can’t become men under white supremacy. Her theory is, because of the system of white supremacy, white men occupy the position of the man, and because white men are the man, black men can’t be the man, a woman, a girl, or, a child, so they can only be boys. Black males have to rise up and claim to gain power so we will no longer be viewed as boys by the world.
    In Welsing’s examples of how Unified Field Theory is applied to a racial conflict, Welsing refers to situations where racially based aggression serves to support the aggressor; such as boarder controls to exclude persons based on race, colour, sexual orientation or wealth.

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  48. John Avatar
    John

    Holder got a wicket first ball of the Scotland innings.

    Hope springs eternal!!

  49. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Donna, you are correct. Those behaviours are displayed in this forum on a daily basis.

  50. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Curiosity got the best of me
    Just went to ESPN+
    The minnows of Scotland are 137-2
    Need 45 from 103 balls

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