In November 1975,as pre teens waiting for our turn to bat in an evening compulsory cricket game, discussion veered on the Ranji Trophy.Some who were from calcutta had actually seen a few of Ranji matches and they even spoke of the great Eden win over the WINDIES in 1974-75.Amidst all that somebody spoke about the West Indies having won the Pudential Cup June.One particularly well informed kid said," But it wasn't first class cricket." It wasn't and at that time even ODI was not so well known abbreviation nad List Awas many years away.
It has been a long time since then and as the West indies begin their challenge in the 2011 edition of cricket's Worldcup,one cannot but feel about the depths that they have plummeted.Even so for a team which has Gayle, Chanderpaul,Sarwan and Roach must put an extraordinary performance,so that North Americans followers of the game can have more than just Canada to cheer about and the Worl Cup will be really about the world as more than a dozen nations comprise the West Indies cricket team.
To go back to our chat near the Pig sty on the edge of the Junior Small Field in 1975,when a football fanatic said that 1978 World Cup in Argentina will be the real World Cup as only eight teams had taken part in the prudential Cup, our knowledgeable friend counted all the Carribean and East African counties and added them to the six and Pudential World Cup had more teams participating than the Football 1974 World Cup held in West Germany.The Prudential Cup was "the" WORLD CUP.QED
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