I tuned in to ESPN last evening for an update on the week ending NFL play-offs and instead saw a sport I knew but barely recognized.
It’s true, West Indians playing cricket’s touted saviour - twenty20 cricket - but no one quite resembling men of yore...no one resembling Garfield Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Lance Gibbs, to name a few...or even men of not so long ago...giants like Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, Clive Lloyd and on and on.
I saw men...er...boys in long pants more deserving of charity issued, amateur bound, school boy designated short pants. Bowlers of the more portly variety, barely 5ft. tall, bustling in to deliver well-wrapped gifts…
Helmet wearing seemingly skill-challenged batsmen all suited up to face pace just a smidgen faster than Geoff Boycott’s “oh, it’s a little lollipop” or what we used to parochially call, “donkey drops”.
Discarded or should I say cricketers who never were keeping wicket, batting, fielding...short pants wearing wannabes like Andre Fletcher, Ryan Hinds and Darren Sammy pretending to be long pants wearing stars they never will be.
Empty cricket stands with an exuberant few...excited, cheering and having just as much fun as my mother-in-law would seeing me at the hastily planned long overdue Christmas dinner.
Commentators 100% more suited to taming the runaway excitement more associated with cricket’s longer form - the oh so exciting 5 days of test cricket...you should see it...you should hear them!
It’s true, the ESPN program I happened upon had many things...a few hits and misses, some dropped catches, miss-fielding here and there...you know...the things West Indians have become so used to...sigh, huge sigh.
I watched a little, hoping, praying...but sadly, not even a hint of the day when West Indians would return en masse to fill the empty stands adorned with colorful vuvuzelas celebrating long pants wearing stars destined to be the Lara’s, Haynes’, Walsh’s and Ambrose’s of the lovely game of cricket we all used to know so well!
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Hi mate, whatever you wrote about West Indies cricket is true. I think peoples are not interested to cheers their favorite team. Not only West Indies but also few other countries are also suffering spectators issue. I hope soon this problem will be solved. Thanks
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