Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #525 –
The locals have more interest in their Premier league 20/20 local comp that gets played between the islands than they do in the traditional formats, why would you want to play test cricket and
get paid peanuts when the short format specialists get so much more?......not many Windies players in county cricket anymore, they dont want to learn how to play the longer formats of the game that require technique and more hard work to learn.
These blokes cant even field properly..its comical watching them ....the IPL has stuffed Test Cricket for the poorer nations IMO, only hope is if the ICC pump more money into the longer game but with India holding the whip hand at the ICC table and running the IPL its not going to happen and I fear we may lose the Windies as a test playing team..
I think that will be inevitable unless the ICC takes action to rein in the IPL and support Caribbean cricket . . . and that's unlikely to happen.
Perhaps the long term saviour will be the re-kindled interest in cricket in the USA. I read that it is one of the fastest growing games and there is a demand for expats to both teach and bolster the game. Of course, it will be vital to ensure that it's the longer forms of the game that take off.