Rescue cricket

Today, our game is ailing, sick and badly wounded but, thankfully, not yet dead.

A rescue mission must be mounted. A good place to start would be to interrogate the coaches who continue to offer up young talent at the highest level with major technical weaknesses and then ask them to execute from an even weaker knowledge base.

The coaches must answer why when other cricketing nations are producing students of the game, who are critical thinkers and problem solvers, the WI development programme is graduating one-dimensional, mentally fragile, slow learners incapable of playing the situation.

The coaches don’t seem to be aware that the modern game demands a greater mobility to combat the slow death that spin bowling has become.

Our young players are heavily disadvantaged.

When other players are busy fine-tuning their game, our players struggle with heavy repairs to their game at the level of the basics.

In such a situation, where they are unable to find any consistency, we fault them for lack of pride and the love of money.

All is not lost. There are positives. Since we have a coach for every lamp post in the Caribbean, the territorial boards must move quickly to establish an association of coaches.

Its mandate must be to bring some order to this madness.

BERNARD HART Freeport