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THE WEST INDIES Cricket Board, not content with having the worst cricket team in the world, last week sent a second string worst team in the world to play Bangladesh. That’s like deciding to send Salman Rushdie on a goodwill tour of Iran but, at the last minute, replacing him with George Dubya Bush. Not counting the ICC Twenty/20, Gayle & the Rude Bwoys did not win a single game in three months in England, losing even to the English Lions. They lost one Test by ten wickets and the other by an innings. The English media mocked them and English fans justifiably jeered them on the field; they did not even firetrucking try. It was obvious from the start that they had no pride but it took until the end for us to realise they had no shame, either. They did not even care how the rest of us felt, watching their sorry, shivering asses at Chester-le-Street. This is a team so abject that, when they had a quarrel with the WICB, they covered the logo of their sponsor, Digicel, on their uniforms on the field! It’s like beating your children because your boss reprimands you. It’s difficult for the newcomer to the debacle to understand how a performance-related contract with such a hopeless team could become expensive – when they achieve nothing, they should receive a proportionate sum – but excellent representation by the Dinanath Ramnarine-led West Indies Players Association has won them a level of payment way above their apparent capability. Thanks to Dinnas, their salaries have risen steadily to the third-highest in the Test world (I am told), even as they have cemented themselves (with steel rebars) at the bottom of the rankings. As bad as the team is, though – and they are so bad, the World Health Organisation is thinking of naming the next virus that causes fatal sloth not the H2N2 but the WI XI– they look good compared with the West Indies Cricket Board. This is a body of people – you can’t in conscience call them men, for they act like piss-in-tail boys – who foisted an extra, unnecessary England tour on the team, as if to make sure the Wisden trophy we’d finally won back was returned before it could be damaged by sea blast. How anyone can call himself an administrator while failing to provide basic job letters for his employees is beyond me. It’s past ridiculous and beyond mockery. Yet they soldier on, taking out full-page ads in the papers to make themselves feel better while the rest of us feel worse. West Indies cricket is not a compass for but a barometer of the West Indian nation. The status and performance of the team does not point us in a new direction; it merely reflects where we are as a people. And we’re in a mess. With the WICB pursuing authority at all costs and the WIPA committed to money before all else, it is no surprise that cricket itself suffers. Tony Cozier and others have cast the ongoing tension between team and board as that of irresistible force meeting immovable object (even though, as Isaac Asimov pointed out, the existence of one precludes that of the other); but even the great TC is on the wrong tack. When you really look at the WICB and the WI XI, or if you say it with a Grenadian accent, you realise it is really a case of irresistible farce meeting immovable abject. BC Pires says if your last name is Hunte, your first name should not be Isaac (Say it aloud.)
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  written by Sheldon Noriega, July 13, 2009
Spot On!! Yet i believe there need to be greater transparency (a word that's like red kryptonite to the WICB). WIPA's done fabulous in it's representation, yet where's the equity in the performance of its representatives? There's simply no justification for poor performances and sustained mediocrity. Long gone are the days when men donned that maroon cap buoyed by earnest pride...
 written by scientist, July 13, 2009
I think the WI team maroon should now be replaced by brown. It is the closest representation of what they produce.
Hey, I can't blame WIPA for their deamds. I blame the Boards for their acquiescence. I have never blamed digicel for wanting no C&W branded players. The board agreed. N. Parso (Info Min in T&T) reminded us in T&T that the upholder is worse than the thief. I could ask for the moon and the stars. If you say OK, who's at fault. WIPA's brown streak is that they seem unable to get the 1st string players(real stretch here) /members to consistently show up and play for their wages. I think the whole side (performing few and the rest) need to be given grounds (hot sun)tickets to watch the current side on at least 2 tours. pay their airfare, but they must suffer as we are suffering. At least less is expected of the current side even if they play to their best.
 written by david kalloo, July 13, 2009
Fisrt of all let me say that I grew up on BC Pires. His writing throughout the years have been consistent and has managed to entertain and inform us in his columns.
Across the globe people are knocking West Indian cricket, yet the West Indies have produced some of the greatest cricketrs in the world, we all know them so I won't waste time mentioning names. Since the big bards retired and left the game, West Indian cricket have dwindled by the way side. The whole of west Indies cricket is in total disarray from the WICB to the players. There is no cohesive unison in the camp and therefore a collective surge forward to formulate a winning partnership connot be cemented with the sporting parties. In all fairness West Indies played a dismal Test series in England and although their thrashing in the Test and ODI's were farcical to say the least,they did go some way to keeping us on the edge of our seats in the twenty20 games. They did well too to reach the semi-finals however, cricketing form somehow seem to have elluded them in their semi-final play off. Sponsors,the cricket board and the players must collaborate on a common ground if west Indian cricket is to have any chance of a revival of the old days. There must be discipline, commitment, determination and in CLR James's words show some 'shannonism' in their game. West Indies cricket needs leadership and if it means schooloing someone for the leadership role the WICB must comply and identfy all these needs or else the sport of cricket is heading for an ominous demise. Brian Lara once said, we have talented players but we have the tendency to take talent players amd make them ordinary while other countries do the opposite. Let us reverse these misfortunes in the caribbean and let us see our players throwing themselves at the game and not waiting for the game to come to them, only then will we see change for despite West Indies lack of victories the fans still 'rally round the West Indies'.
 written by Alan Scott, July 14, 2009
Well it's funny what a little death can do. Three weeks ago I don't think anyone would have dared to say a good word about MJ for fear of being laughed down or ridiculed. I never was a MJ fan. I didn't like his high-pitched vocals, I didn't like his style of dress, I didn't like his songs, 'Beat it', 'Bad', 'Billie Jean', the list goes on and on and on. I thought them light and poppy, not at all my style. Also they just didn't fit the singer: "I'm Bad"!! in black, sequined leather, high-pitched vocal, pinched, plastic surgery nose, implanted cheek bones, sculpted cleft in chin,straightened blow dried, originally African hair, mascara and other make-up just didn't cut 'bad' for me. Although there was mass hysteria around the world for this pop icon, I remained unmoved-and I still am. I feel a little left out but these are my true feelings. If there was one thing I hugely admired about MJ, it was his dance ability. It is the best I have ever seen.I also admired this speech. He's probably in a better place now-wherever that may be. May he R.I.P.
written by Alan Scott, July 14, 2009
Johnny Ace comment was supposed to be posted to BC's Daily Blog-Accidentally posted here. aAlrod
 written by DeBigBri, July 14, 2009
Well said, BC! This goes someway to redeeming you (and you needed redemption) after suggesting (I'm still hoping only as a pot stirrer) that you had much love for PM!
I'm unsure how much jammin' Dinnas deserves but surely he has some responsibility in the decline. I've argued before that unions and union leaders also need to urge their members to better themselves constantly - be mindful that in most endeavors "competence" is a moving target. That's perhaps especially true in sport where the ability to adjust (to opponents tactics as well as to one's own changing strengths and limitations) often makes the difference. As for the Board - is any condemnation too strong? Being weak-kneed, unscrupulous and pompous seem to make a ready blend.
 written by Dawn Holder, July 14, 2009
BC Pires, once again you've made the points that need to be made using very little space. It's quite an interesting time for Windies cricket if you're not a fan. Nuff blame, nuff jokers to share it. Tony Cozier suggested different reps from each side may provide solutions but then again for how long. We seem to have the ability to sink lower and lower though many times we felt things couldn't get worse. Loved the Isaac Hunte line.
 written by SimonP, July 16, 2009
OI! Bazza,
The current impasse between the WIBC and WIPA has been described by some as a Mexican stand-off and by others, in perhaps more academic circles, as an example of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object... I beg to differ since it is far worse than that: It is the incompetent interfacing with the intransigent. However, which side gets which appellation remains open to debate, of course.
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