Dear Editor,
I’d like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Keiron Pollard, Devon Smith, Shivran Narine, and maybe Darren Sammy to jump on a plane and wait at Tullamarine Airport, Australia
I’d like the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to add them to the squad. I’d like Brian Lara, Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, and Courtney Walsh to get together with Curtly Ambrose and Phil Simmons and talk about how they can rescue the rest of this tour. I’d like Cricket Australia (CA) to help in that process.
I don’t want the WICB to send anyone home from the current team. Keep everyone here. Educate them to winning. Then I want the Windies to work together towards a line-up for the Boxing-Day Test on December 26, a fortnight from today.
The West Indies cricket community needs this to happen.
If you added Russell to the bowling with Shannon Gabriel, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach —Â who batted magnificently — Jason Holder, Dwayne Brav; if Narine and Warrican were paired for spin; if Gayle and Smith joined young Chandrikar (who batted quite delightfully in a typical Indian fashion); Darren Bravo (who was quite phenomenel today and yesterday), maybe Marlon Samuels, Braithwaite, Blackwood, Ramden, then we would have a squad to beat Australia. That must be the goal.
If you wonder why Ian Chappell and many
ABC, Nine Network, Fairfax and other media are so highly critical of Windies teams and of the WICB, it is to try to draw out the past greats of Windies cricket and the board and make them salve their conscience by getting their people together as one tribe.
Criticise them if you will Australian media, but I believe it is CA’s responsibility to try to mentor the Windies and make them see the possibilities of unity. The International Cricket Council, as a body, cannot make such a move, but the England and Wales Cricket Board, CA and the Board of Control for Cricket in India can make anything happen.
If you can pull off this coup CA, you will show yourselves to be a great factor of good in the game of cricket; not a taker, but a giver. You have 14 days to accomplish the mission. I challenge you to make it happen! And I ask all media to work on this and help make it happen for the betterment of cricket worldwide.
Arthur Pagonis
arthur@ausglobaltrading.com
I’d like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Keiron Pollard, Devon Smith, Shivran Narine, and maybe Darren Sammy to jump on a plane and wait at Tullamarine Airport, Australia
I’d like the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to add them to the squad. I’d like Brian Lara, Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, and Courtney Walsh to get together with Curtly Ambrose and Phil Simmons and talk about how they can rescue the rest of this tour. I’d like Cricket Australia (CA) to help in that process.
I don’t want the WICB to send anyone home from the current team. Keep everyone here. Educate them to winning. Then I want the Windies to work together towards a line-up for the Boxing-Day Test on December 26, a fortnight from today.
The West Indies cricket community needs this to happen.
If you added Russell to the bowling with Shannon Gabriel, Jerome Taylor, Kemar Roach —Â who batted magnificently — Jason Holder, Dwayne Brav; if Narine and Warrican were paired for spin; if Gayle and Smith joined young Chandrikar (who batted quite delightfully in a typical Indian fashion); Darren Bravo (who was quite phenomenel today and yesterday), maybe Marlon Samuels, Braithwaite, Blackwood, Ramden, then we would have a squad to beat Australia. That must be the goal.
If you wonder why Ian Chappell and many
ABC, Nine Network, Fairfax and other media are so highly critical of Windies teams and of the WICB, it is to try to draw out the past greats of Windies cricket and the board and make them salve their conscience by getting their people together as one tribe.
Criticise them if you will Australian media, but I believe it is CA’s responsibility to try to mentor the Windies and make them see the possibilities of unity. The International Cricket Council, as a body, cannot make such a move, but the England and Wales Cricket Board, CA and the Board of Control for Cricket in India can make anything happen.
If you can pull off this coup CA, you will show yourselves to be a great factor of good in the game of cricket; not a taker, but a giver. You have 14 days to accomplish the mission. I challenge you to make it happen! And I ask all media to work on this and help make it happen for the betterment of cricket worldwide.
Arthur Pagonis
arthur@ausglobaltrading.com