THE EDITOR, Madam:
THE WORLD is coming to an end, the best tennis (female) and golf players are black and the best rapper is white...West Indies cricket team could not hold on to a victory if it fell in their laps!
What can revive WI cricket? In previous seasons our batsmen were not batting, this season it is a combination of poor batting and inept bowling (Walsh & Ambrose excluded) and with these two stalwarts retiring what will be our plight?
Twenty years ago when I was forced to listen to cricket (a manipulation of the airwaves by my cricket loving family) it seemed that our victory, the pleasure would last forever and defeat had no avenue in the West Indies. But today at the end of the millennium, defeat has taken over and fortified itself with a wall round the West Indies team.
For me, it has been like a 20-year investment/marriage 2nd rate passing grades in high school, sleepless nights or early morning eat naps, camping out at Sabina Park; fasting; anxious prayers et al and after all this the union is crumbling and I cannot, neither can my trusted board and selectors put the pieces together.
Maybe the board should rightsize or rationalise and even specialise. On current performance, West Indies will never be able to win another series and we may be better served by harnessing our efforts or begin concentrating on the hybrid one-day International perhaps? Then again our batsmen have the most injudicious strokes and may not make the cut in the ODI.
Or should cash island don their pads and bats (spear & shields) and fight for its own victory?
I am, etc.,
R. MARIE MAITLAND
White Hall
St. Ann
