It's like that time after every loss, where the post mortem takes place. Every West Indies Test Match loss. Losing to the Indian cricket team by an innings and 92 runs. That's just wrong firstly, secondly it's been so common place the last 16 years that it's unlikely there will be any improvements in the short to medium term 1 - 5 years.
This is irregardless of three world Cup wins this year, women's, men's and under 19, all fabulous victories, which temporarily paper over the cracks in the system.
The talent is there in West Indies cricket, the wide variety of players, plying their trade all across the world in so many different tournaments, the passion is there because there won't be crowds coming to see Twenty 20 matches if everyone is over supporting cricket in the West Indies and finally what's missing, is the overall underlying want to change, change what was done previously to make things better and easier than before.
The biggest problem in the West Indies is the poor quality pitches, cause if you grow up on slow and low pitches, and you go anywhere else in the world, you can't cope. ESPNcricinfo has done many impressive and amazing articles on this over the years. The numbers game is particularly my favorite. This is however not a rehash of whatever cricinfo's opinion is, it's my take on the stagnation of cricket performances in the Caribbean. To have the lowest run rates worldwide over the last ten years is an important issue and an embarrassment at the same time. For a region know for flashy scoring batsmen and devastating bowlers to the state it is currently is enough to break anyone's heart.
I hope at some point in the future that we will see West Indies cricket rise again, really and truly and sincerely. But it's a long road up there and I promise to start back supporting West Indies when they can consistently beat Australia in all formats of the game.
In other news, I just finished watching The Revenant and that was a truly epic tale of revenge and raw blood lust, truly enjoyable experience to see why Leonardo Dicaprio won an Oscars for his performance, well done! Amazing stuff.
Pacing of the story was a bit drifting at points but overall a movie of the year.
The make up team for this movie deserved accolades as well. Leonardo looked horrific!
As always to close my blog post, here's an adorable picture of a puppy.
Awww, isn't he sweet.
I want a dog soooooo badly. 😢
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