Mediocrities imitating Shivnarine Chanderpaul

 Indians are invisible in the administration of West Indies cricket.  I pointed out the regular trademark of losing West Indies cricket. Historical references exhibit biasness, ethnic and island cleavages are major contributing factors to the demise of the Ramadhin and Valentine era; and the Worrell and Sobers era. During the late 1950s and late 1960s, insularity was the word used for the summary of the ills bedeviling West Indies cricket. During 1966 sobers took nine Barbadians in a squad of seventeen tour of England. 

• Gary Sobers, captain, Conrad Hunte, vice-captain, David Allan, Rawle Brancker,  Charlie Griffith,  Wes Hall, David Holford, Peter Lashley, Seymour Nurse
• Basil Butcher, Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai, Joe Solomon
• Joey Carew
• Rudolph Cohen, Jackie Hendriks, Easton McMorris

There was no room for Deryck Murray, Clive Lloyd and Roy Fredericks in the expressions of the vision impaired West Indies selectors and administration. Small wonder Sobers teams crumbled 1968-1972. History shows Deryck Murray, Clive Lloyd and Roy Fredericks were the future in Summer 1966. And should have been on that tour. 

From 1973 -1995 the quality of the talent pool allowed Kanhai, Lloyd, Richards and Richardson to lead with several issues being swept under the rug. Therefore those teams were able to overcome the unnecessary foolishness of several ridiculous individuals, especially the selectors. Clyde Walcott is the principal influential person behind the rise and maintenance of West Indies cricket as the dominant force in the cricket world 1973 -1995. Lloyd may have learnt from experiencing firsthand the demise of the Worrell and Sobers era. Lloyd seemed very eager and ruthless to replace aging veterans with younger players while maintaining a core of winning cricketers.  Lloyd was consistent. At least since the era of Jason Holder West Indies teams have been dominated with mediocre Barbadians in test matches and average Trinidadians in white ball cricket. The wickets in the Caribbean are docile. There has been no fast bowler of similar quality of Ian Bishop in decades. No batsman rivaling Roy Frederick in decades. Current West Indies batsmen are exposed against quality spinners in tandem.  Fast bowlers in hostile conditions decimate the mediocre Barbadians. Seymour Nurse is the last extremely tough Barbadian international. Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson demonstrated Gordon Greenidge was not tough enough. They blew him away four completed innings eleven runs scored. Gordon Greenidge was the weakest of that talented first six 1974-1977 Lloyd, Fredericks, Rowe, Kallicharran, Greenidge and Richards. Fredericks was the toughest. In current times, none seem to draw upon the last two murderers of fast bowling, Roy Fredericks and Viv Richards. The mediocrities are all inclined on imitating Shivnarine Chanderpaul. The test matches first six are a bunch of grafters - ugly cricket. I prefer the Learie Constantine blueprint for West Indies cricket tempered with the ruthlessness of Clive Lloyd for winning in dominant fashion for as long as possible. 

Clive Lloyd preferred the following; 

1. Hard hitting adventurous stroke-playing batsmen who could defend graft, if needed and not throw away their wickets in the face of dominant bowling.
2. Fast bowlers who were excellent fielders and capable lower order batsmen.
3. Superb catching especially close to the wicket. 
4. Lloyd was not fond of spinners of his era in West Indies cricket. 

What is the strategy of CWI as the losing continues?