Do you see any further decline in Windies cricket or it can only improve? Where is it going from now?

Question

Do you see any further decline in Windies cricket or it can only improve? Where is it going from now?

Answer 1

i dont know that whats happens to this team.. they have talent but their performaces go down down and down... i think their quota system in team and politics make their position worst

Answer 2

Good question mate. Your a great questioner!

As every cricket fan knows, in the 70's & 80's West Indies were the dominant force of world cricket. The "Australia" of the 70's and 80's if you will. They were winnings series after series, 2 world cups! and they had the best players in the world, they had a bright future ahead of them, or so they thought.

West Indies cricket started to decline after they started to produce less and less world class players. There is a big reason why West Indies failed to produce great players for the future, and that reason is arrogance. When the Windies were dominant in there "Golden" era, they never looked ahead to the future! They never planned for the new millenium!. Whilst countries like Australia & India were producing state of the art cricket centres for young kids and up & coming players, the West Indies relied on old fashioned ways thinking that new talent would just come along! and perform!.

They were wrong as you can now see! West Indies cricket at the moment is a joke. They are losing test series at will! and they have only 1 or 2 world class players.

The popularity of cricket there has been declining for a long time now, the abomination of the 2007 World Cup didnt help, but now most test matches and a few ODI's are played in half empty stadiums! fans dont want to see the players fail!.

West Indies cricket at the moment is at a standstill BUT i can assure you they will rise again! as new funding and cricket schools are being built and used now! to finally begin the process of producing new Viv Richards and new Malcolm Marshalls. Luckily star names from the past have joined the board! Meaning they can help to find the talent and pick the talent too. I honestly believe that with the new cricket schools built and the amount of effort being put in to help the future players that West Indies will be a force once more!

The team at the moment is not good enough!. Without Chanderpaul and Sarwan the batting line-up is fragile, and without Jerome Taylor the bowling attack can be fragile, BUT West Indies cricket is a work in progress! so things can only get better

Answer 3

w.indies is unpredictable.

they will lose a sitter and win a blinder.

bravo needs young players with some talent

Answer 4

According to me at this point of time I think that Ireland is better than the windies........................

now, according to me.... They is only one way they can move and that is forward....................

Answer 5

they can only improve

Answer 6

It looks like Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the backbone of West Indies team, and it won't be long before he decides to hang up his boots. Unless no good & consistent performers come to the forefront, then I see a not-so-bright future. I don't think WICB is doing anything other than shuffling players to change the state of WI cricket.

Answer 7

They have the talent. But they don't know to use it properly.

How ever i think in this ICC champions trophy they will play cricket much professional.Becoz last 2 ICC champions trophies they got trophy in 1 & been the runners up in other.

However windies are the most diciplined cricket team in the world. All the best 4 them.

Answer 8

james franco is sexyyyyyy.

Answer 9

Apart from Chanderpaul, there is little or no consistency in the side, and I fear what will happen once he retires, when you think back to the power that they were in the 70s and 80s you have to wonder what has happened to them to be as poor as they are now.

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Answer 11

As WI 've lost everything, they 've only 2 choices:-

1) To be at rest,i.e, neither to improve nor to be the worse..

2) To improve...

Now, its yet to be seen, what they really gonna do....

Answer 12

I think they are on the improve.  During the recent series they started to show some grit.  They got blown away in the ODI's but that doesn't matter too much.

Answer 13

I think as a team they are Good but they need consistancy and require lot of training and motivation.

They can turn around

Answer 14

Windies cricket has been "in transition" since 1992. By the 2011 World Cup, the Windies would have been sliding down for 19 years, a period that will have seen the careers of Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and the few other good players in the team begin and end without any significant success for the team.

The 3 best players in the Windies team right now are Chanderpaul (debuted in 1994), Chris Gayle (debuted in 1999) and Ramnaresh Sarwan (debuted in 2000). Since that time, WI have not produced a single-world class player (some would argue that Dwayne Bravo is an exception, but only so in T20 and ODIs, he is not an all-rouund cricketer). The bowling department has not had any consistency since the retirements of Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh and Phil Simmons. Just to give you an idea, in the last 10 years, the spin-bowling duties have been performed by Dinanath Ramnarine, Rawl Lewis, Neil McGarrell, Nehemiah Perry, Mahendra Nagamootoo, Ryan Hinds, Dave Mohammad, Suliemann Benn, Omari Banks, Gareth Breese, Ryan Hurley, Narsingh Deonarine, Ryan Ramdass as well as the part-time spin of Chris Gayle (who has opened the bowling), Sarwan, Marlon Samuels, Carl Hooper (who regularly bowled 10 overs in ODIs), Ricardo Powell, Sylvester Joseph, Xavier Marshall, even Lara and Chanderpaul sometimes. That's one bowling role that has had to be fulfilled by 13 specialist and 9 part-timers in 10 years, showing how all the players selected failed at the top level.

As for fast bowling, there are some who say that the Windies fast bowling factory has shut dow, which is not true. WI keeps on churning out fast bowlers a dime a dozen, producing tons of below-par bowlers instead of a few good ones. So here goes my list: Kenny Benjamin, Cameron Cuffy, Otis Gibson, Patterson Thompson, Franklin Rose, Mervyn Dillon, Nixon McLean, Reon King, Pedro Collins, Corey Collymore, marlon Black, Colin Stuart, Adam Sanford, Daren Powell, Jermaine Lawson, Vasbert Drakes, Tino Best, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Ravi Rampaul, Ian Bradshaw, Deighton Butler, Dwight Washington, as well as part-time medium pace from the likes of Dwayne Smith, Dwayne Bravo, and many others, making 23 specialists and several part-timers to do the job. This is a far-cry from having a Holding-Marshall-Roberts-Garner or even a Walsh-Ambrose-Bishop-Simmons foursome that played every game and terrorised batsmen around the world.

After the retirement of Richie Richardson in 1996, Windies batting went into a slump it never recovered from. Barring Lara, Hooper and Chanderpaul (Jimmy Adams was inconsistent), and later Gayle and Sarwan, not a single batsman seemed capable of holding down a spot, although I am certain they have used 50-60 different batsmen since 2000.

Different people have different theories for their decline. Lack of investment in cricket infrastructure is probably not one. Sport is highly prioritised on the islands, and even though infrastructure is not great (as Andrew Symonds found when he met Asafa Powell earlier this year), West Indies consistently produces great athletes. The two fastest men in the world today are from Jamaica (Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell), the rest of the islands produce many Olympians in sprint and hurdles event, the Jamaican and Trinidadian football teams qualified for the World Cup in 1998 and 2006, several Jamaican, Trinidadian and even Barbadian footballers play in the English or Scottish Premier Leagues and other prominent leagues in Europe, basketball is popular and has already produced star players such as Patrick Ewing (played for New York, Seattle and Orlando in the NBA). So it is hard to fathom that all these sports are emphasised at the expense of cricket. Countries like New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, where cricket shares the spotlight with several other sports, do not suffer because of the presence of choices other than cricket.

I think it all boils down to one thing: money. The English and Scottish Premier Leagues, NBA and lower basketball leagues in the USA, and college basketball as a stepping stone to these leagues, as well as top-level athletics pays a lot more in prize money and sponsorships than does cricket. If there was more money on offer in the game in the Windies, many promising sportsmen might choose to play cricket rather than football or basketball or track and field. It remains to be seen whether Allen Stanford's billions can inject life into the West Indian cricketing fold. So while all is not lost for the Windies, a lot depends on the financial incentives to play the game and unless this changes, Windies cricket will carry on going downhill.

Answer 15

I think that the biggest loss is in the form of Pakistan team now as far as test matches are concerned. West Indies also lost form but not as much. My calculations show the loss of Pakistan's form as 20.3% and that of West Indies as 17.6%. The others are: England (12.6%); Sri Lanka (8.6%); India (7%); New Zealnd (4.5%); Australia (2.2%); Bangladesh (1.8%). The only gain in the form is that of South Africa (3.5%).

As of now, IMO, South African team is the best test match team now (100%). The other teams are: Australia (978); India (878); Sri Lanka (875); New Zealand (855); England (849); West Indies (803); Pakistan (769); Bangladesh (696).

Answer 16

I don't think Windies Cricket can improve in near future.  Because it consits of many nations, there is no common pride, then there is apparent lack of passion.  Now youth of carribeen is attracted towards basketball and soccer.  Also there is no development plan for cricket.  I feel Carribeen cricket scenario is dismal and hopeless.

Answer 17

better look out that india doesn't lose her current position!

Answer 18

There's no performer that is a genuine and reliable player except a couple of players!! When they are gone, i don't think West Indies will be able to compete with tougher teams in the future!!