What ails West Indies Cricket?
By snakequeen
@snakequeen (1299)
India
April 3, 2008 12:09am CST
West Indies,calypso cricketers, ruled the world in '70s. They were giant killers. Won the Prudential Cup when it started in 1975 and 1979 by beating the Australian and England Team authoritatively. Every cricket playing nation was afraid of meeting the giant. Their squad included many greats like Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Gordon Greenidge, Andy Roberts, Mich Holding and the like. They camedown to earth when they met Kapil's Devils in 1983 and beaten twice -once in league and in final. From there,downline started for West Indies and they never recovered. They are Island cricketers. What ails their cricket? Lack of promotion? Paucity of funds? or
lack of material. Can they become a cohesive and winning unit once again? Truly, they are exciting cricketers. They only showed the World what exciting and enterprising cricket is all about?
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@mrtimharry (1180)
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3 Apr 08
West Indies cricket was based around their bowling - batters were fearful of the pace as it was something different. West Indies could put four bowlers on the pitch who were of equal speed and equally feared.
Today they are lucky to put one really quick bowler on the pitch - and even if they bowl at their best there is no-one bowling from the other end who can put the same pressure on.
The other issue is lack of cricketers, they do not have the same size population to compete against the other cricketing nations - and football is becoming more popular taking potential cricketers away from the sport
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