Becca embarrassed by performance in Zimbabwe series
Mon, Apr 5, '10
Despite the West Indies winning the recent series against Zimbabwe, Tony Becca says he's less than impressed. In article in the Jamaica Gleaner, Becca writes:
The West Indies ran out 4-1 victors over Zimbabwe in the one-day internationals recently, and with so many people, including the coach and the captain, patting the players on the back and saying "well done", I was almost embarrassed.
After failing to reach 100 runs and losing the Twenty20 match, after losing the first one-day international and scraping through to win the second, and after depending so much on Chris Gayle and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to pull them through, the victory, to me, was no big thing.
He goes on to call into question the "loyalty" of the players to West Indies cricket and says:
It seems, however, that while the players and their association want to exercise their choice, they do not want the board to exercise its discretion.
It appears that the players and the Players' Association want to do what they want to do, and the board, the body elected to administer West Indies cricket in the interest of West Indies cricket, should just sit aside and allow them to do whatever they want to do in their own interest.