Essay On T20 World Cup

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Infinite Hope, Finite Tears and Everlasting Joy Two days after the West Indies senior men's and women's teams won the ICC T20 World Cup, I drove through the often depressed and violence-edge community of Norwood in Jamaica. Drive-by gang shootings and death, over water catching a cell phone at a roadside restaurant, are all plausible when you venture into a volatile inner-city community such as this. As hunger churned through my gas-filled stomach, I swooped over to a popular cook shop, to arrest the groans of my breadbasket. Behind the shop lied a freshly cut football field. The garbage once hidden was now revealed and littered everywhere. Surprisingly, though, the posts were there for football, but no football was being played. Kids, as …show more content…

In the process, West Indies halted the Big Three's claim to the three world titles (India in the u-19 ODI World Cup, Australia in Women's T20 World Cup, and England in the Men's T20 World …show more content…

The disappointment lingered further when a putsch was attempted over the Jamaica Cricket Association initial non-support of the WICB President's re-election campaign. At the time, I said of the process, "It Stinks to High Heaven" and declared, "If Billy goes, then Dave goes". I harboured hope that our leaders in West Indies cricket would leave all the hatchets aside and put the cricket first for heaven's sake. Nevertheless, conundrums developed further and the product, communication and relationships, on and off the field, continued to decline. Elation flooded my mind when Phil Simmons was appointed head coach last March yet anger overtook me with how Shivnarine Chanderpaul was discarded last May. I still recall the forlorn look on West Indian fan Natasha's face when West Indies capitulated to the Aussies at Sabina Park in June last year. The depth of her disappointment, at the time, was unending, yet my love and hers for West Indies cricket were everlasting. My recommendation then for West Indian fans like us was "Therapy! We have a problem", I declared, because it seemed we were doing the same things over and over albeit expecting different

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