Bloggism

Well, the Windiess have been receiving some bitch licks down in no-man's land. And, although they came back to get high 500's declared, in 2 days they couldn't bowl out the Marylebone Cricket Club team, made up of mainly university students, including Sir Viv's son.

And Sarwan is back home to nurse a sore shoulder - and Samuels will be back in the crease, hopefully to do something this time.

Well - I will watch them this coming Thursday, hopefully it will be on Sports Max..

Well, thankfully, our one week plus of rain has subsided, and the place has begun to dry out. We had all started to look like wet chickens. And our cars are full of mud. I will wash the beast this evening, hopefully - I like to wash her myself.

I'm here waiting for 2 pieces of much promised business - hopefully they arrive before long otherwise I'll be living outside.

Well, my weekend in Kinsgton was enjoyable - we had lunch at Strawberry Hill on Saturday 26th May - I will try to post some photos on another post.

Stuff

Aussies have once again shown their world cricket dominance by seizing the world cup amidst a bit of confusion in the final at Kensington Oval, Barbados.

We should have really won that Super 8 game against England - they really recovered to get that 300 in the last over, with the last 2 batsmen at the crease.

When the Windies lost a match recently, people complained because they took 7 batsmen and 4 bowlers, instead of 6/5.

Really, a lot of teams must think (and rightly so) that we are fools, because they have 7-8 genuine bowlers and batsmen in their teams - even Ireland is beginning to show such depth and all round skill.

What a toll this has taken on certain persons, apart from the death of a coach and Ireland's former head of their cricket association.

Lara retires, England coach Fletcher resigns before they fired him, New Zealand captain Fletcher resigns, McGrath retires (he was going to anyway), Inzamam quits, and a few more heads are bobbling around the place..Even the WICB chairman is trying to quit, but to confirm what fools we are, we are trying to hold on to him even if for a few weeks, as well - boy we really hate ourselves.

Anyway, the Windies are going to England in Mid-May - what do you think folks?

What a thing with the players playing 3 overs in bad light - those umpires must really have drunk too much Mount Gay Rum, or sumting..

I am looking forward to my 2 nights in Kingston 25-26th May - the first night I am free - so please let me have your ideas - keep in mind that this time the family is with me, I am not flying solo - (damn)

Why does it seem to hard to blog these days - must be some sort of blockage, lack of bloggage - anyhow, hail up everyone, and now there will be less cricket here for a while, even with my beloved Windies headed to England in May - should be gray and wet as usual -

Quite a baptism for newly appointed captain Sarwan -

One more lil ting

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All the Pakistan selectors and others have resigned over the teams elimination from the WCC. I wonder if the WI selectors have ever done so in the past?

Nuff people cussin our selectors all the time, when we takin licks from all teams - but I dont hear about selectors resigning lately. I know the board has had some changes, but what about the selectors?

And we sometimes have the nerve to criticise the Paki's? A Joke..

This is a post script to my main post, below, folks - so after this over (or before if it pleases you), please bat out the one below, and please, run swiftly between the stumps.

Bloggage

Well - I pause for a moment and celebrate the life of Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's late coach. In 1994, he was Brian Lara's coach at Warwickshire, so indirectly, he developed West Indies Cricket.

News was published in the UK today that he apparently succumbed to overdoses of prescription medicine along with heavy alcohol intake - however this was before an autopsy was performed in Kingston, Jamaica Today.

Despite this sad situation WCC continues to roar along - the Irish having impressed everyone, especially with their victory over Pakistan on St. Paddy's day - what an Irish celebration.

There is a security guard who always lets me park in a certain bank's parking lot, and today he said to me "Ah watchin out for the team they call Irieland".

The Windies have already qualified for the Super Eights, but they do play Ireland on Friday. B.C. Lara et al will be looking to drink them for Guiness.

The Irish's previous match with Zimbabwe was a thriller, actually able to pull of a tie with them - Kenya did not get anywhere today with the Kiwis, but it did start in an exciting way with one wicket for no runs. However NZ stayed at the crease and built up 331 runs, and Kenya never came close.

The Windies have taken some criticism on their uneventful win over Zimbabwe - but I cannot help thinking that this criticism is motivated by a dissapointment on the part of Cricinfo and other publications that the West Indies have advanced. There was no need for us to play as if it were baseball or a 20/20 match and lose silly wickets. I say leave them alone - a win is a win - even though Zimbabwe must be given max credit because they bowled and fielded tightly. They did not have to field tightly for Samuels' dismissal - that looked like a curry goat cricket shot, to rass. A blind man could have caught that shot. Anyhow - the ball is round.

Rally round the West Indies on Friday, folks - it will hopefully be cricket, lovely cricket.