Kevon Cooper was missing from the T&T's line up in this morning's Carribean T20 match( last night's actually)between Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago.He has gone to Bangladesh to participate in the Bangladesh Premier league.Chris Gayle, Kemar Roach and Marlon Samuels are missing from action in this edition of Carribean t20 as they are playing( Samuels is injured now) in the KFC Big Bash in Australia.Nationalities and distance matter little in the world of the t20 leagues.Players play across continents and for different franchises.So much so that a player is often eligible to play for two or more sides in the Champion's League t20 meant for top teams from different leagues.This gives the cricket leagues a following which is more flexible than in football. It also makes a small world in cricket where followers follow the various national teams, provincial sides and clubs and franchises wherever they exist.This makes for a phenomenon where many neutral international matches are watched on TV and enjoyed on the radio by the supporters of not teams per se but of Cricket.It is therefore that I remember Alok Chakraborty playing for Bangladesh Central Zone against the MCC much before Bangladesh gained Test status and when I see the Bangladesh Central Zone scores on the net, I am immediately reminded of the last ball from Wilson which Alok played to draw the two day match coming in at Number 11.
Added to this is the joy that one can experience when one finds a player looking like Sehwag playing against Rohtak Road Gmkhana at the Siri Fort Ground and discovers that the player is indeed Sehwag playing in DDCA Super League.
Added to this is the joy that one can experience when one finds a player looking like Sehwag playing against Rohtak Road Gmkhana at the Siri Fort Ground and discovers that the player is indeed Sehwag playing in DDCA Super League.
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