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I support Chanders
May. 5th, 2011 11:30 pmI don't expect that statement to mean anything at all to anyone outside the cricket-playing world (i.e., to anyone in the US), but if it means something to you please post a similar message on your own blog; if enough of us do this, perhaps the message might get through.
For many years, through thick and thin, Shiv Chanderpaul has given of his very best to West Indian cricket, often when there seemed to be no one much else willing (or with sufficient talent) to support him. Now he's being treated abysmally by some ignorant jumped-up bureaucrats at the West Indies Cricket Board.
Whether or not they pick him for the team is of course their prerogative; most of us might think they were nuts but, hey, it's reasonable they might have decided on a policy of developing new talent even if that means losing a lot of matches in the interim. Foolish -- in that the best way of developing new talent is to have a few older players around to help them -- but plausible.
What's unforgivable is that the jackasses have thought the only way to justify their decision is to smear the guy.
I've been a pretty consistent supporter of the Windies for decades (except, of course, when they were playing England), even during the many lean years they've been suffering. I lost quite a lot of sleep after the time I found myself in the same (very large) room as Viv Richards and Joel Garner -- the bar at Somerset County Cricket Ground, in point of fact. But I think finally, unless the WICB gets its act together and starts treating Chanderpaul with the courtesy he merits, my loyalty is ebbing.
So, please repeat it until the administrators finally discover there's a dissident world out there: I support Chanders.
