Arthur Crabtree wrote:sussexpob wrote:Is it a shame, or is it the fact windies have simply embraced the future
Their 50 over side is as poor as the Test team. T20 barely exists at international level. So in terms of WI cricket, there's not a lot there.
sussexpob wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:sussexpob wrote:Is it a shame, or is it the fact windies have simply embraced the future
Their 50 over side is as poor as the Test team. T20 barely exists at international level. So in terms of WI cricket, there's not a lot there.
More people watched the t20 final in the USA, than the whole of the last ashes series first test. The average attendance in the two big t20 leagues now ranks both Of them indivudually on average in the top 10 watched live sporting leagues. The last t20 world cup had nearly 800 million watches in India alone.
This is the format that has the money and viewers, why would windies players care about coming to an island with crap weather to make no money
Arthur Crabtree wrote:sussexpob wrote:Is it a shame, or is it the fact windies have simply embraced the future
Their 50 over side is as poor as the Test team. T20 barely exists at international level. So in terms of WI cricket, there's not a lot there.
Making_Splinters wrote:The main issue is that there simply isn't the quality of first class cricket in the Windies to produce players of a Test class reliably. Mike would know more, but I always seem to get the impression that domestic games in the Windies are basically low scoring and dominated by spinners.
mikesiva wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:The main issue is that there simply isn't the quality of first class cricket in the Windies to produce players of a Test class reliably. Mike would know more, but I always seem to get the impression that domestic games in the Windies are basically low scoring and dominated by spinners.
Spot on.
The discussion on this thread has been very interesting reading.
I think the reality is that some players don't want to risk injuring themselves playing FC cricket for peanuts which could deprive them of earning money in the IPL and the CPL. They include. ...
Kieran pollard
Dwayne Bravo
Dwayne Smith
Lendl Simmons
Chris gayle
Andre Russell
Sunil Narine
andy wrote:Been bowled out for under 200, and facing defeat in 3 days...
bhaveshgor wrote:yep russell is another one with decent record but haven't played the format for a while.
Russell did well in a A series against india 3-4 yrs ago.
took 10 wickets in 2 games.
Making_Splinters wrote:I wonder if Narine is worried about being called, yet again.
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