Unless you are called Glenn McGrath and stay around forever.They come and go I suppose.
Yea, God forbid someone stays on while still being the best bowler on the team.Unless you are called Glenn McGrath and stay around forever.
Not only that, but it's strange timing for such a post, since McGrath has confirmed his retirement from both forms of the game and will only play two more games of cricket in his life.Yea, God forbid someone stays on while still being the best bowler on the team.
Whoever gets the job, I wish them luck in restoring the West Indies to the status of a top team. It will not, you'd think, be an easy job - but if done right, will make world cricket a much better sport.
Obviously though, if teams improve, you get better quality cricket and hence cricket benefits from that. It's not a matter of the West Indies being a better side than other teams in world cricket, but a matter of them being better than they are now. Increased quality of one team doesn't lead to decreased quality in another, except by comparison...Why? Although the WI have some of my favourite players, I don't subscribe to this viewpoint that cricket benifits if there is a strong West Indian team... Let us not forget that the decline of the West Indies team has allowed Australia to flourish, and has coincided with Sri Lanka becoming a dominant force, as well as the return of South Africa and the emergance of Bangladesh..
Teams go up, teams go down, thats the same in any sport, and I don't see why a tear should be shed because some teams happen to be at the bottom..
Shane Watson can!Bradshaw had a good career, I'll remember his typical 10-1-41-2 fondly. Also he helped win a Champions Trophy, not many players can say they've done that.
Oh give him more credit than that. He only fell away in his very last few matches. At one point in the Champions Trophy last year his average was under 26 and his economy rate was under 4.20.Shame for Bradshaw, his ODI career has been in the end something of a disappointment given how good he had been looking at one point.
Makes no sense for him to carry on now, of course, IMO.
Exactly. It's a pretty basic concept.Obviously though, if teams improve, you get better quality cricket and hence cricket benefits from that. It's not a matter of the West Indies being a better side than other teams in world cricket, but a matter of them being better than they are now. Increased quality of one team doesn't lead to decreased quality in another, except by comparison...
But the substandard sides have always inflated his record - 9 for 27 against Ireland, 2.64-an-over against Bangladesh, 2.83-an-over against Zimbabwe.Oh give him more credit than that. He only fell away in his very last few matches. At one point in the Champions Trophy last year his average was under 26 and his economy rate was under 4.20.