When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.
In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.
For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.
The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.
Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.
In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.
For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.
The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.
Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
When I was a boy, West Indies cricket was coming of age, and when I became a man, it was getting stronger and stronger until in the 1960s and in the 1980s, it was the best in the world.
In those days, however, there were a few hiccups here and there, and there were a few insular voices whispering and calling for a split, for the territories to go it alone.
For more than 50 years, there have been calls to break up West Indies cricket, and recently, following the withdrawal by the West Indies from the tour of India, the calls have become louder.
The early calls were on in the days of Jeffrey Stollmeyer and Allan Rae, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, and Clyde Walcott, Sonny Ramadhin, and Alfred Valentine, when cricket was the sport, almost the only sport of the West Indies, and those were the days when West Indies cricket was blooming, cricket was considered as an integral part of the West Indies, and the West Indian people were proud, very proud.
Those were also the days of Cricket, Lovely Cricket, a calypso that serenaded the West Indies' first victory over England in England, and the calypso, after the players had done their bit, that made West Indies cricket famous.
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