Women’s Cricket Puts West Indies Test Team to Shame!
By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
West Indies Women’s Cricket Team
Cricket in the West Indies is a male-dominated sport but it is the women players that are making waves.
A plethora of panels and reports exist to discuss the future of the game but women are not included in the decision-making committees. The women’s game is relegated to a few paragraphs in officialdom. In the ‘Strategic Plan 2011 to 2016’ no policy statement is made about women’s cricket. The Pybus Report of 2014 does not even acknowledge women’s cricket. The West Indies men’s Test team has forgotten how to win. The heart is no longer there but don’t tell that to the women players. They have been consistent in bringing victories to the West Indies. The team, currently ranked fifth by the ICC, is on the way up. Where are the men? They are near bottom. Given the impressive performances of the women shouldn’t the WICB place more emphasis on women’s cricket?
The Caricom Cricket Review Panel said in October 2015 that, ‘There is no organized, offi cial programmes and policies in place by the WICB to develop women’s cricket.’ Tony Cozier who has written copiously about cricket in the West Indies has devoted only one major article to women’s cricket and many of the other writers seem to take women’s cricket for granted. The fact is that with the current low ranking of the Test team a Deandra Dottin or Kyshona Knight can show the men Test players how to stroke the bad balls.
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Comments
Glad to see that the Women are doing well, maybe the can tell the men how to play the game Ha Ha
Even though our Male cricketers can be going through a dull period which can be improved through better Leadership starting with the Leaders of the various countries but our Women have always been our main Asset in every phase of Life making them our Equals and they will take over every and all Aspects of Life during the Rest of this Century so to learn more of who they really are and the Role they will play in every Aspect of life go to the King James Version of the Holy Bible and read and study Proverbs 31.
Whatever men do women can do better!