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I have been into cricket all my life..and I have absolute confidence in my ability to spot talent.

I told you all from the start that carlton baugh was an idiot and would not succeed at the top level.  I told you all Powel does not have it from the start.  I saw him once, got his persona and dat revealed all

I saw Dowrich and the same sense, that he is not top class talent and it would be a loss over Ramdin.  I said the same of lil Jase and many others.  I am right about 7-8 times out of 10 about players.

talent can be spotted and one can know who is good and who is not good. where is the mystery ::confused::

Nobody includes me.

I'm glad you have confidence in your ability to spot talent but I think you are wrong. Many people believe they can. Was there ever anybody you thought would have made it at the highest level and didn't?

No boss, talent spotting is an art and can be verry successful

Look at Hockey in Canada and Basketball in America.

all top players were Scouted ..

zac, if you knew your history you would know of scout Clyde Walcott.

Hired by Guyana sugar estates Bokker Group.

he unearthed fron the countryside gems like :

Kanhai, Butcher, Soloman, Freddo  et al

we later got Kalli as a domino effect and other playe

Scout was paid by a private group...

oh yes.  I have a track record on the sites I have posted on over the years..Sissy, the Green eye board...Bally's site... and now here on the forum.

I am good.  I stand on my ROP.

over the past 10 years or so only Darren I saw as a good enuff batsman...then Blackwood with good guidance.
I saw Paint too but I have some reservations about him.  I have reservations about Chase and Kyle.  I was wrong about Shai so far but not about Powell.

of the players available I think that Cornwall fella has real talent but  I question his mental health and strength. he will not be successful as big as he is.  he must drop  serious weight if he is to become a top class player at international level.

also his life might depend on losing weight too.  it must be a great strain on the body to kerry around that great weight.  that is why I question his sanity and mental ability.  today it is easy to control weight because it is known what puts it on in the first place.

so dont eat the bad foods....eat the good foods.  its sa simple s that.

its is known that wheat period is now a toxic hybrid responsible for all that weight on the human body.  then there are the cooking oils, sugar, corn, corn fructose.  to eat regularly any one or all of those items is a death sentence..with obesity and diabetes along the way.

so simple..find substitutes.  and that is easy.  wean oneself away from the crap while establishing the good habits.  if Cornwall manages to get a hold of himself and change his style of life we will have a classy player right up to test level

but then again it depends on selection..if Skourtney Brong is maintained as chairman of selectors..in which case fairness in selection is outside the window until some same powerful person brings it back in again

The scouting business is hit or miss. People have done research. I could say i can spot talent too, but as many that have come good there are those who didn't turn out the way I thought. When I saw Richard Staple I swore he'd have scored a lot of runs for WI. He didn't turn out to much. Thought Devon Smith would've been good too. But when a lot of people were going on over Barath and Dwayne Smith I thought they were crazy and it turned out I was right about them. Think I was right about Darren Bravo too. But I have missed as many as I have gotten right so I'd have been a bad scout.

Darren Bravo is a good batsman..the best we have at this time.

lil Barath had the ability.  I had doubts about him but he had the goods.  something went wrong with him man..something mental he cud never get over. 

just to watch Barath bat it was easy to spot the mental trouble.  he wanted t hit the ball too hard..he was playing the game in his head with a force he did not have and that was unnecessary.  Barath was organized to get to the top..and once he got there he fell apart totally. 

ability was not the problem.  it was emotional/mental. he never ever recovered

Daren has problems with the team and its inability to support him.  and he knows he is being underpaid, that the team is poorly selected..that the cWI does things in the interest of itself and not the team and the players.
that is what is currently killing west indies cricket..what for certain robs the players of what they need to become the best they can be

I kinda agree about Barath. That is one reason it is difficult to spot who will turn out well because sports is not just physical ability. You have to make good decisions too. I agree he tried to hit the ball too hard. That's the first thing I thought when I saw his hundred against Australia. Thought he was too reckless in flinging his bat outside off stump too.

Barath is now a Pastor : and being treated for mental illness...

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