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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