It's a question that continues to stir debate across the region, as frustration mounts over the men in maroon's struggles on the international stage.
In part two of our feature, former CWI director Baldath Mahabir shares why he believes the individual islands might be better off standing on their own.
00:00After the West Indies lost the three-match T20 Series 2-1 to Nepal in Sharjah, fans in the Caribbean were livid.
00:08It reached the point where some were saying it's time to disband West Indies cricket.
00:12In part one of this feature last week, should West Indies cricket be disbanded,
00:16former CWI director Baldath Mahabir publicly said the administration was doing nothing to rectify the problem.
00:23Mahabir says the pain is too much to bear, hence the reason he hardly watches the West Indies play.
00:42As such, he has no issues if each territory decides to go its own separate way.
00:48We have all suffered from the decline of West Indies cricket. We have not suffered only as a region, but we have suffered as separate territories.
00:57Mahabir is fully aware if each island parts ways with the Westernese, they too are expected to take a beating from others on the world stage.
01:05But he prefers to go by the adage, Rome wasn't built in a day.
01:09The journey to the top of anything is never for the weak. And there is room, especially in the white ball formats of the game.
01:18Because one remembers Trinidad going to Champions League for four years and being very well respected. Great performances.
01:26And at one time we were the winningest T20 franchise team in the world if we could call ourselves a franchise.
01:31Some of the non-test playing nations participate in ODI and T20 World Cups.
01:37With the red ball format becoming less popular in the Caribbean, the president of the Clark Road Cricket Club says
01:43that should make it easier for the islands to say goodbye to West Indies cricket and fit in with the Mino nations.
01:49Red ball cricket will continue to suffer. But how many countries in the world take part in test cricket?
01:57So test cricket, if we just ban, will very well be a past tense for us.
02:04And we will be looking at T20, 50 over whatever derivative comes up in the future of the shortened game for us to move forward with.
02:14And that will be the impact. Now if we use football as an analogy or as an example,
02:19we see what football has done to the region. We play as individual countries and there is fierce rivalry.
02:26We see how Jamaica has gone on loan in athletics and how successful they have been.
02:31Prior to the Nepal series, Mahabir said he would not have been surprised if the men in Maroon were to succumb to the Asians,
02:39which is exactly what happened when the Maroon teams explore.
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