Teams from the two hemispheres are again pitted against each other in the Northern hemisphere at Leeds and Kingston,Hedingley and Sabina Park to be more precise.Even as the world is caught up in the Olympics, cricketers are playing for the top slot at hedingley and perhaps the bottom one at Kingston leaving Zimbabwe and Bangladesh out of the equation.
Poor performance at international level has dogged the West Indies for some time.However, what is surprising is not that the West Indies have remained the bottom team for so long but how the West Indies sank to the abyss with a team that had Ambrose, Walsh,Lara, Chanderpaul, Sarwan and Hooper.The problem was something more than cricket. West Indies now appear to have atleast gone beyond the fear of cricket losing popularity and NBA attracting talented youngsters and has already launched an offensive by playing a home t20 series in the USA.Newzealand Cricket has a stake in that enterprise and cricket is trying to enter a bigger market. IPL and the Indian eyeballs have seen to it that not only will cricket not become irrelevant in the West Indies but anywhere in the World.
Cricket will make some noise at Hedingley, even as London 2012 grabs more attention at the Olympic Games.
Poor performance at international level has dogged the West Indies for some time.However, what is surprising is not that the West Indies have remained the bottom team for so long but how the West Indies sank to the abyss with a team that had Ambrose, Walsh,Lara, Chanderpaul, Sarwan and Hooper.The problem was something more than cricket. West Indies now appear to have atleast gone beyond the fear of cricket losing popularity and NBA attracting talented youngsters and has already launched an offensive by playing a home t20 series in the USA.Newzealand Cricket has a stake in that enterprise and cricket is trying to enter a bigger market. IPL and the Indian eyeballs have seen to it that not only will cricket not become irrelevant in the West Indies but anywhere in the World.
Cricket will make some noise at Hedingley, even as London 2012 grabs more attention at the Olympic Games.
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