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Rift between West Indies players and board
Mon, June 04 2012
Paradise Lost: The civil war that is destroying the rich legacy of WI cricket
By Venkatraman Ganesan
The passionate Colin Croft’s lament regarding the current precipitous state of West Indian cricket, as expressed in a cricket weekly – 'The Cricket Paper’, while eliciting dollops of sympathy, does not go a long way in assuaging the reader dreaming about a change in fortunes for the men from the Caribbean. In fact, if the talented Lord Relator were to pen a calypso to symbolise the shambles that is West Indian cricket of late, it would read much like an improvised ode than a groovy tune!