In praise of West Indies cricket and cricketers

On the last day of the month of March, a friend of mine, temporarily in London, I wandered into a bar. It was night in India, but appeared in England, where there was just a strange mustache around. My friend convince the owner of the bar to switch the channel Sky Sports, so that he can watch the World T20 semi-finals.
Order has joined. My friend ordered a beer, sat on a chair, and began watching the game. The customer next to him an English lady in her thirties. "Who is India's toys?" I asked. "West Indies," was the answer. "Then the West Indies will win," she said: "My father told me they always do."
His father was a cricket-loving English and grew up in the 1970s, when he made Clive Lloyd and his men cringe team Tony and Greg. He had then followed, with a mixture of admiration and disgust, and "blackwashes" of Botham, Gooch, Gower and the company in the 1980s. It was the memories of the father still carried with him, and who passed to his daughter (and only cricket, ignorant).
I was very grew up always thinking of the West Indies won. My first memories of my ears to hear the special test match in 1966, the year the side Garfield wakes up 'all of them in England. After a few years, when I joined the University of Delhi, Australian High Commission got lend movies to test parity from 1960-1961, and Sobers "double hundred for the rest of the world in 1971-1972 (which is the Bradman of the greatest roles he saw). These films and then It may expose in my studies, in front of a large crowd and approval, and approval so that I repeated the (West Indies) the performance of each year thereafter.
I came to admire Vivian Richards almost as much as Sobers. He first saw Richards bat in my years at the University of Delhi. Wonderful shot 192, with one six sailing north from Ferozeshah Kotla, all the way from New Delhi to Old Delhi. Thirteen years later, on the same ground, and I saw Richards matchwinning score another test hundred, this time in the fourth rounds, a crumbling wicket against the Indian spinners shrewd. Two years later, Richards did a little bit with the bat in an international one-day against India at the Kotla, but won again in the match, with the ball, with six wickets.To Indians of my generation, it was the Indian cricketers west supreme. In subsequent years, they declined and fell away, and we felt that something was missing in the game of cricket. This is why, for people like me, if there was one team we did not much mind losing to India, the West Indies. This feeling was particularly strong in Kolkata, which has a deep sense of history crowd cricket. Bengalis who watched Reel and Ramadhin in the 1950s passed on their memories (and praise) for their children, who, watching Richards and Roberts in the 1970s passed, and the next generation. So it was not surprising that all except a few people at the Eden Gardens on Sunday he wanted the West Indies to victory over England in the final of the World Cup T20.
While Darren Sammy and his men were making their way through this tournament, I read a new book fine on cricket in the Caribbean. This is the Fire in Babylon: How cricket team directs the West Indies on people her feet, British writer Simon Lester. The screening of a documentary film of the same name in India (and others) a few years ago. Book declared information is much better than the film, partly because of a book of 300 pages allows one room more than a movie, and a quarter hours, but mostly because the author has an understanding richer and more subtle than the history of the Caribbean, which was the film's director.
Hindu, in an editorial after the final World T20 match, and called in the West Indies to win a victory for the "instinct." This is an old metaphor. Appeared in the 1930s, said Neville Cardus Show play the West Indies and it was his style of cricket their countries as a result of pulses was born in the sun and affected and lifestyle more natural than our environment. "One of the advantages of the book declared information is that it demolishes comprehensive of these stereotypes. It shows how success team Clive Lloyd, in particular, is based on hard work, and intelligence tactical and long-term planning.That true of this team West Indies T20 victorious as well. where Donny was very afraid to use his main rotor in the amounts opening, Sami wisely chosen to start with the same best bowler slow., changes were fast bowling ability to move the racket up and down the order as demanded situation, and the way in which Simmons, in the semi-finals, and Samuel, in the final game, paced roles, and certainly a victory for intelligence on instinct.
Fire presents the film in Babylon mono-dimensional image, of Afro-Caribbean take on the whiteness of the ruling. Book Lister does not shy away from the description of the horrors of slavery and the ways in which cricket provides a path for black pride and social liberation. But, unlike the film, he does not ignore the Indian Caribbean element. Ramadhin in the 1950s, Kanhai, Joe Solomon in the 1960s, Kanhai and Kallicharan in the 1970s, all of which were successful teams that played the key, and so it was with Denesh Ramdin and Samuel Badree in this most recent side.T20 not cricket test. In the form of longer and better than the game, and the West Indies are no longer able to compete. But maybe I'll come back on that day. At the same time, let me thank Darren Sammy and his men's, albeit in passing, which makes me young again.
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