As a cricket lover, the future of Caribbean Cricket is constantly on my mind. The present team touring the UK is young and full of exciting possibilities and there is the need to support and give them a chance to ‘blossom”.
Yet, I cannot help but wonder if there is still something missing. If, as Caribbean people from every walk of life will affirm with philosophical air, ‘Cricket is We’ – what has happened to us? I suggest that the whole team, including the “overseas” coach re-read and study carefully Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James.
After all, ‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ Perhaps, rediscovering cricket as that ideological weapon of subversion and as an opportunity to move beyond the boundary or from someone else’s backyard and occupy legitimate space centre-field may once again liberate Caribbean cricket and give Caribbean viewers less grey hairs just looking West Indies at the art.
Yet, I cannot help but wonder if there is still something missing. If, as Caribbean people from every walk of life will affirm with philosophical air, ‘Cricket is We’ – what has happened to us? I suggest that the whole team, including the “overseas” coach re-read and study carefully Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James.
After all, ‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ Perhaps, rediscovering cricket as that ideological weapon of subversion and as an opportunity to move beyond the boundary or from someone else’s backyard and occupy legitimate space centre-field may once again liberate Caribbean cricket and give Caribbean viewers less grey hairs just looking West Indies at the art.
