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Our West Indian Cricket Shame Only Deepens – Commentary By David A. Comissiong

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DAVID A. COMISSIONG, President, Clement Payne Movement, Citizen of the Caribbean, and Lover of West Indies Cricket

How shameful it was to witness the gleeful rejoicing of the members of the West Indies cricket team in the wake of their fortuitous and totally undeserved victory over Scotland — a non- test status, associate member team of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

These men — supposed heirs to the great West Indian cricketing tradition of such immortals as George Headley,Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Garfield Sobers, Clive Lloyd, and Sir Vivian Richards — seemingly had no qualms about celebrating the fact that it took a manifestly erroneous umpiring decision, the intervention of a shower of rain, and the complicated calculations designed by Messers Duckworth and Lewis to “gift” them a 5 run victory over a Cricket team that is regarded as a minnow in international cricket!

But, as hurtful and shameful…

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By guyaneseonline, on March 24, 2018 at 12:48 am, under Caribbean news, Commentary, Personalities, Philosophy, Politics, Sports. Tags: Barbados Underground Blog, Our West Indian Cricket Shame Only Deepens - By David A. Comissiong. 1 Comment

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dhanpaul narine On March 25, 2018 at 10:12 pm
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If you think that West Indies has ‘cricket shame’ you should take a look at Australia!

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