****Remembering Richard DeSouza****

Yeah , Joey can be included.

BUT the matting cricket , gave us a long line of great Spin :

starting with Puss achong of the Chinaman fame.

Ramadhin

even that flash in the pan Jack Noreiga

Inshan Ali , Jumadeen et al ....

Inshan to me was a genius, first of the mystery spinners.


Tenacious but could be expensive at times and an astute captain would forego that in favour of a match winner.

you could not have gotten that idea from me  I started posting  on these boards about 8-9 years ago and my beginning contention was 'there will  be no resurgence in west indian  cricket until there is general social reform  of west indian society'

by that time west indies cricket had fallen low, I attributed that to ebb and flow of cricket fortune.  we have been  on top and now we have entered a trough.  but I also attributed the failure to the rise of the west indian black/brown.. and still white of a different stripe to the old whites, though declining.. elite to west indian administrative cricket power.

they brought their poxy,  oreo cookie, traitorous, comprador quality to running the cricket, and as such they would never be able to do right by the game, and the cricket would die under their brief, if no social reform in the society from below, which would sweep out the old colonials and usher in a new more  independent type.

DeSousa was a main part of a clack up in the wicb who made themselves a permanent power, that arranged a sort of  royal succession of the presidency that reduced what should have been a democratic process to a completely manipulated  one.  as such all the presidents were their unopposed choices, over whom they as permanent committee exercised real power.

the first reasonably viable election the wicb has had in my recent memory is the last one that brought Skameron to power.  DeSousa is gone and I  don't think the committee has as much power any more.  but the situation is still not democratic..the leader comes from in-house or out house and unopposed.

there has been also much financial skulduggery at the wicb that DeSousa was always reported to be the centre figure in

there has never been any doubt about what goes on at the wicb and when he was there that DeSousa was the main man  in the mix.  none at all.

I can offer no validation  on DeSousa..just like I  cant Dos Santos.  but what is true about both men is know and accepted..more so because the wicb sank in the very ways that DeSousa's management failed..the management by all of them among whom DeSousa was jefe.

but anyway mail..stop play inoncent fuh we eh. I know you know far more than you pretend

hahahaha, don't get vex ...getting caught might be a blessing for u.  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

Appears he could NOT protect u from being molested ... :'(

Do you remember much of DeSouza brother?

Nope....I was in to Batsmen with style and flash .

I wanted to be text book technique...

My cousin Timur got it ....I came to this god forsaken Ice hockey town  :'(

Bacchus has more flash than Timur!  ::LOL::

Googs me not talkin about flashing outside off for Kirmani to catch  u behind a la World Cup 83

Nor the flashy clothes of Faoud .... to cop Uncle Hack daughter ...

www.espncricinfo.com/wc1983/engine/match/65090.html

DeSouza was a bit before both Bacchus and Timur.


Bacchus would have overlapped a couple of years.