00:00Cricket author Nasser Khan says it is beyond disappointing that the West Indies surrender the three-match T20 series to Nepal in Sharjah after the second match.
00:10He says even when the higher authorities try to look for solutions, it ends up being nothing more than lip service.
00:17Last year we had the two-day Hyatt forum, big thing. We had Michael Holden shedding tears.
00:22We had everybody contributed, everybody and their uncle, aunt, nenen, etc.
00:27To what end?
00:29Zero.
00:30He has often been hurt by the performances of the men in Maroon and tries to find some level of comfort from the regional four-day and Super Fifta Cup plus the CPL.
00:40Based on his observations, Khan feels there's hardly any unity among Caribbean people.
00:46We have nothing in common in the Caribbean, the West Indies. That's the reality.
00:53We're a bunch of disparate countries sharing nothing.
00:57We can't share flying fish.
01:00Federation, we tried it.
01:01Federation, one pump from 10 sparrow crone bus.
01:05Caricum, Carifta, you name it what it is.
01:08Fast forward to the United Nations before and there, in and thereafter.
01:13What do we have?
01:14Nothing in common.
01:15Absolutely nothing other than, quote, as I quote, West Indies cricket.
01:21And, of course, that is also always fraught with insularity.
01:25Khan has written several books on West Indian cricket grounds and cricketing heroes, including the biography of TNT's Larry Gomes, while providing an input into the book, Lara, The England Chronicles.
01:37But he's reached the stage where he feels West Indies cricket should no longer exist.
01:41We have come to note.
01:44Zero zilch matter.
01:46What do I mean by all having said all that?
01:48I think we should disband West Indies cricket.
01:51Go it alone, whatever it means.
01:53Nepal, Nepal.
01:54Who's next?
01:56And do our own thing on the world stage, qualify where we have to, if we could.
02:02And if we can put together a strong 11.
02:06I know Barbados probably will.
02:08Trinidad and Tobago will.
02:10Jamaica probably will.
02:11Guyana probably will.
02:12All right.
02:13And we become minos and we move up the ladder.
02:16But at the current rate, we're an embarrassment to the world.
02:21The West Indies won the first two ODI World Cups in 1975 and 1979 under Clive Lloyd.
02:28They also won the Champions Trophy in 2004 and two T20 World Cups in 2012 and 2016.
02:35But the team's failure to qualify for the 2023 50-over World Cup and this year's ICC Champions Trophy,
02:41along with other embarrassing performances, have made Karn come to this conclusion.
02:45We thought T20 was the way to go, but even that format isn't suitable.
02:51For us in the West Indies anymore, because having been balled out for 27 in a recent test match,
02:58I thought was the low, but never mind ODIs, that's also a bust.
03:05Women's cricket, well, that's also another story we have to consider.
03:10One of the best years for the West Indies was 2016 when they won the men's and women's T20 World Cup titles,
03:16along with the under-19 men's 50-over World Cup.
03:19But nearly a decade later, the region that produced the likes of Viv Richards, Brian Lara,
03:24Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding, surrendered a T20 series to a non-test playing country
03:29situated in the Himalayas, Vinodnawani, Chiefs Export.
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