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Theres time and schedules but 10 teams to me.9 of the 10 icc members and the rest fight for that last place.Probably Ireland of Afganistan.
Just on the Windies they have the wildcard factor like Pakistan. You don't know which teams going to turn up on he given day.But it makes for good entertainment.

gtr and BH

The WI ha had a fantastic record given the relativelly small population of the region. In per capitia terms Barbados and Antiqua Barbuda must be the greatest cricket bastians of the world. They would have really been in business if Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had of been so productive in producing cricketers. Even in the glory days of the WI, L G Rowe, A. Logie, M.A. Holding and C Walsh, were the only chaps whom orginatted from the two countries -- Jamaica and TT --- which had the biggest populations.

For me at least, the WI team from 1975-1995 was the greatest sports team in history

Ark WSC taught the West Indies how to win.Just a point on the nations that make up the West Indies cricket side.Clive Lloyd was from Guyana mainland South or Central America,south I think.
Antiga produced there fair share Sir Viv,Richie Rich,Andy Roberts, Curtley Ambrose.

ArkRoyal wrote: gtr and BH

The WI ha had a fantastic record given the relativelly small population of the region. In per capitia terms Barbados and Antiqua Barbuda must be the greatest cricket bastians of the world. They would have really been in business if Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had of been so productive in producing cricketers. Even in the glory days of the WI, L G Rowe, A. Logie, M.A. Holding and C Walsh, were the only chaps whom orginatted from the two countries -- Jamaica and TT --- which had the biggest populations.

For me at least, the WI team from 1975-1995 was the greatest sports team in history

Incredible side in that era AR & GTR.
There were times as a kid where I wondered if we would ever beat the Windies again.
I didnt realise there had been very few WI players come from both Jamaica & T&T.
It might be worth doing a breakdown from that great era to see where most of the players did originate?

BH and GTR:

the 1980 side had the following

Barbados:

Haynes, Greenidge, Garner

Jamaica

Rowe, Holding

Trinidad

Murray

Guyana

Alvin K, Llyodd Croft

Antigua

Sir IVA Richards
Sir A. E. Roberts

the 1985 side had the following:

Haynes, Greenidge, Garner, Marshall

Jamaica

Dujion, Holding Walsh

Trinidad

HA Gomes Logie

Antigua

Richards
Richardsaon

Big effort by Barbados, Antigua, and to some extent Guyana; the big two have certainlly under-performed. I think if we went back to the 1960s, six or seven of the team would jave been from Barbados.

Thoes comments made by Sir Viv about the Windies being defeated behind closed doors.
The Windies had a horrible over rate .That Lloyd era they where lucky to bowl 60 overs a day.Now if you don't bowl 90 overs a day you get fined.The windies slow over rate kept there fast bowlers fresh.

gtr: true enough on the WI over rate; the Chappell brothers complain about it to this day, justififiablly to my mind. In any case, we really should have won the 1984-5 series, dropping far too many catches which took the pressure off the tourists.

LH: that is true, they have a very Scottish way of enunciatting some of their vowel sounds.

La Hincha wrote: Nitish Kumar is one of the players that came all the way through the Canadian system.

Now he's captain and he is the spokesperson for Canadian Cricket

www.icc-cricket.com/video/402621

Them Canucks talk funny eh

I've seen cricket played in Uganda and they go alright. It is part of the private school system there and kids get exposed to it at an early age. I've seen cricket in Ghana as well which has a vibrant local cricket comp and attracts players from other part of West Africa.

I was in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago for work, around the time that Canada were playing Zimbabwe A preceding their trip to Uganda. I went to a provincial game (their state league) at the Old Hararians Club ground. FMD how these guys keep going with the ruination of their facilities is a mystery. The standard of cricket was great considering the state of the oval. The pitch was fine but outfield was an abomination with bricks painted white as boundary markers. Most Perth public parks would be in better nick than Old Hararians.

Brad Finch was just out .And done his job well.The experts say we need 300+ on this wicket.Rashid looks the most dangerous of the bowlers.But Henriques and Smith both play spin well.