Jason Holder’s team were comprehensively beaten inside three days by an innings and 212 runs by Australia in the first Test in Hobart but in an interview yesterday, he defended his colleague. “There are a lot of dishonest people in charge at the moment”.
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The MCG’s affiliation with Boxing Day cricket began in 1950 and the annual fixture has become arguably the most popular match of the Australian cricketing summer.
Bravo was stripped of the captaincy of the West Indies limited-overs team a year ago and then was left out of the squad that contested the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in February and March.
In a warm-up match before the first test in Hobart, the Windies played against a Cricket Australia XI, made up mostly of teenagers who have yet to play a game for their states in the Sheffield Shield, and were embarrassed.
Once considered the ultimate force in world cricket, West Indies cricket are seen going through a free-fall in it’s stature and rankings, with it’s board WICB in a constant wrangle with the players over many issues, including monetary. “Up until early on this year I was still interested in playing Test cricket”, Bravo said. “I just decided it’s time to move on with my life and try to channel my energy in different places”.
However, Cummins maintained that it was always his dream to represent the West Indies in Test cricket. “Therefore, we at the adminis trative level must find ways and means of dealing with the problem of players choosing to play for club rather than country”. We’re all committed to West Indies cricket, but sometimes with the way we’ve been treated over the years, sometimes we second guess and ask ourselves why should we actually fight with West Indies’ cricket [administrators] when the rest of the world are opening their hands for us? I feel hurt, because it’s far from the truth… “You have to give us time…it won’t happen overnight”.
“I think it’s bad governance”.
Despite being in the mix only for the T20s, Bravo said he had not given up hope on playing ODIs again. But do we get that type of treatment back in the region?
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Commenting on that knock the Jamaican said “I scored 92 in a game and the next day felt like I’d been hit by a bus, the body will actually take time to build up gradually”. He made his test debut against Zimbabwe in 2000 at Queen’s Park Oval and played his last match against Bangladesh in 2014 at Arnos vale Ground.
