Welcome Captain Ramdin
The Caribbean Is One Nation.
Welcome Captain Ramdin
Welcome Captain Ramdin
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| Denesh Ramdin |
We extend sincere best wishes to
Denesh Ramdin, the new captain of the West Indies test team. We also thank
outgoing skipper Darren Sammy, who has announced his retirement from test
cricket. We are happy that he will continue to play the popular, shorter version
of the game, the T20, for our regional side. While others have condemned Sammy and
have justifiably argued that his cricketing skills at the test level were less
than stellar, we at Mahogany Coconut identified Sammy, as a good leader and
highlighted him in our 2012 Citizens of Note.
As for Ramdin, we opine that he
will have great difficulty in performing below those who have captained the
team in recent times. He can find some ironic comfort that the great Brian Lara
did not distinguish himself as a captain and even the great Sir Garfield
Sobers, was considered below average as skipper. Ramdin’s goals should be to
emulate Clive Lloyd and Sir Vivian Richards in order to prove himself as worthy
of the most prestigious job in the region.
Ramdin’s place in the side is
guaranteed and unlike Sammy, he is of no bother to the selectors. His wicket
keeping skills are well known and he is no rabbit with the bat. He has been
exposed to early leadership tasks in his native Trinidad and seems to possess
that unique Caribbean flair for the game. From all reports, he seems to have a
good rapport with his team mates and this should make the transition from
worker to manager (captain) rather smooth.
The Caribbean needs another shot
of cricket supremacy in order to remove the clouds of uncertainty that now hang
over the region. While Usain Bolt and the Jamaican outstanding cast of world athletes
bring the region much joy and recognition, we must admit they do not emit the
feeling of utter and sustained joy that cricket supremacy brings to the region.
We are tied to religion and cricket; for almost twenty years our cricketers
have been missing in action and we are almost at the bottom in the ICC test ratings.
We have suffered long and the weight of mediocrity and defeat has almost killed
our great cricketing spirit.
It is against this background and
the attendant melancholy that Mr. Ramdin enters as the real Chief of the Region,
and all we can do is hope and perhaps go down on our knees and beg the
cricketing gods, to guide him and the team to heights we reached before. Failure
will perhaps kill us all. It falls to Ramdin to take us off the cricket life
support system that will not survive any more power failures. Good Luck Skipper.
Once more we rally around the West Indies.
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