Thursday, June 21 2012

THE EDITOR: West Indies cricket has been a passion sport for us West Indians and we have produced many great players like Sir Frank, Sir Garfield, Sir Viv, Rohan Kanhai who when he fell in executing his shot, the ball ended up in the stands; how could one forget Sonny Ramadhin, Alf Valentine, Sir Wes, Mike Holding and Prince Lara?

How great was our cricket then, but now we are at the lowest of all Test playing nations

We seem to be at the top at the under 19 level and even the West Indies “A level” since India was beaten. We seem not being able to have that passion and arrogance to elevate to Test Level.

I wish to suggest that with immediate effect, Mr Gibson should resign and that includes the entire WICB Executive and in the same vein a Caricom Committee initialised by governments to call on all former Test players to an urgent meeting in Trinidad to select from among these former players, a new executive and a new coach and of course a new selection panel.

Our Caricom governments should immediately open a fund to pay our former players for their services and not for “free” as it now applies, it happens in all other cricket nations.



R Sam

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