It's time to relegate the Windies from top Tests

www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/australia-v...20151210-gll03b.html

the totality of the consequences tabulated here by Mallet is the result of the class war in west indies cricket....

there is a class war in society general between the rich and their cohort and those who work for a living..the masses of ordinary people who must be kept in their place, homogenized in ways that neutralizes their collective revolutionary power.

in cricket in the west indies it manifested itself in the war between the admin and the players.  the admin has won and in the process they have neutralized the power of the players by producing  team so bland and un-threatening that they cannot play actual cricket to any serious level.

that is what the admin needs to ensure its control in perpetuity..a team that is incapable of rising up and asserting its place in power in the cricket reality.

it is a zero sum game really.  if the players rise it must be at the expense of the admin and vice versa.

and doh let Mallet and the rest fool allyuh.  the same equation exists in all of cricket..in all of society.  this is the principle, a contradiction that drives social reality currently..how a mutually existential opposed set continues to exist from day to day in complete warfare yet evolving  its way to a resolution nevertheless..a resolution in which one side of the equation wins at the complete extinction of the social reality of other

in the developed countries there has been war all along.  that is why there are players unions everywhere.  in Oz too the players union has been compromised but not openly and egregiously as in the west indies.  it has done with more sophistication.  in Oz the captain has jets as effectively been sidelined in all aspects of the game in which he was dominant.  the captain does not even have a say in selection anymore. 
you cant have a dominant captain and dominant administration. the power must reside somewhere and it is either in the hands of the captain and team or in the hands of the Bureaucracy. In Oz as elsewhere the Bureau have won and established dictatorships at the expense of the players. 

and the ICC is busy become like the FIFA and the Olympic Association..under the rubric that politics has no place in sport establishing a world government in sport that no individual nation can challenge under any circumstance.

in the west indies the wicb operates under that rubric, under the protection of the ICC that is ready to pounce anytime CARICOM intervenes directly.  it does not matter the harm the wicb does to the cricket.  that is not the point.  the point is the principle of bureaucratic control..that must be maintained and advanced period.  no challenge must be brooked..all such challenge must be neutralized

in west indies cricket the wicb represents a win for the elitist side that while not yet complete is huge enough and well on its way to complete resolution..that is the destruction of west indies cricket. the wicb has homogenized west indies cricket, pasteurized it like useless milk on supermarket shelves now devoid of any nutrition milk is supposed to contain.  the process  of preparation has killed all nutrients.

the west indies team, and its re-organization of west indian domestic structure has been so re-organized to produce the worst, repetitive form of cricket in the world .  I call it neo liberal cricket a form of the game without soul and heart

by the time the west indies elites are done west indies cricket will be pass-out in the school yard, backyard wherever...and the current parasite would have morphed into another host in the elitist  destruction of west indian ordinary, developmental potential on their way to joining Brave New World, the quintessential corporate dystopia


BUT THIS IS WHAT MAPOUI DESCRIBED FROM THE START WHEN HE BEGAN POSTING ON CRICKET BOARDS.  HIS PREMISE WAS THAT THERE WILL BE NO RESURGENCE IN WEST INDIES CRICKET UNTIL THERE IS BASIC SOCIAL REFORM OR REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE WEST INDIES.

SO ALLYUH THINK THIS WAS WRONG ::confused::

NOT AT ALL. HERE WE ARE  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

I can see the reasons why the west Indies should be relegated to the division 2 tier of cricket, but at the same time I'm not sure that's what the players need.

While they'll have a better chance of competing and a few victories will do their confidence a power of good, what then? They won't be used to playing the top sides and the team won't have developed any more than what its doing now.

the west indian house will be restructured on correct principle only when the peoples interest is represented in the administrative mix such it is re-organized to represent such...

only he popular interest contains all that nourishes the game and keeps it safe, developing, evolving as it should.

the minority sectarian elitist interest represented by the current administration has the overall vested interest of social control to maintain their social position and exploitation of all in society

there will be no positive change until the popular interest dominates

Mapu...ox farm mon  :-\ ...wanna be ox ford don  ...but only Cesar Chavez of cricket   ::

chairman will you tell Skimmy 51 to stop tracing me personally, individually.  if he has something to say about the subject matter I don't see how that is against any rule or law

I don't know the poster and he does not know me.  he shud refrain from that line of commentary and stop tracing my posts with it

you said that already.  twice in proximity to my posts is too many!  yo do not know me!

40yr Ole
Wannabe yaardie

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the WICB had refused to accept the claims made by the CARICOM in their report, but, however, accepted that some changes are need to be done.

Anthony Astaphan, who will be used as an advisor to discuss the review by CARICOM's cricket sub-committee, said that he would look how both the organisations could help in improving the West Indies cricket.

more like wifan in another drag... :-[