Is it 'that' West Indies or New comer in Cricket Status?

If we try to recall peak era of West Indies, our body would re-start Shivering Lyrics for a while and some big name will hover in our mind like Malcolm Marshall, Sir VIV Richards, Michael Holding, Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes i.e long list.

There is no doubt they were mighty in 1970s and 1980s with pocketing maiden world cup as well as second world cup too. There commitment with game was fabulous even can be derived as marvelous. They never worry where are they playing and who is there rival, thy always overcome with bat, ball, field and attitude that was worth watching too.

since the evaluation of one-dayer cricket to 1979, there performance was screwing. In that period they won 17 one day matches out of 23, that was best winning ratio (2.83) compared to all other nations.

They did not stoped their delicious performance in one day cricket in 1980s though they could not win any world cup in that decade but played 1983 wold cup final against India and they go down to the worst performance, and they finally lost that.

West Indies were really king of cricket in that of 1980s. They won 122 one day matches out of 170, again holding best winning ratio (2.65) among all nations. That decade was really one of the peak era of West Indies cricket team and in that period they ten times whitewashed their opponents on different occasions.

With the retirement of skies names Clive Lloyd in 1985, Joel Garner 1987, Gordon Greenidge 1991, Sir Viv Richards 1991 and Malcolm Marshall 1992, West Indies went into depth of defeats in 1990s. They developed a fashion of defeats which could not divert till now. No doubts there produced some big names like Brain Lara, Courtney Walsh, Carl Hooper and many others who performed excellent in that decade but unfortunately they could not stop the defeat's run-way, And they could only won 96 one day matches out of 195 and their winning ratio decline to 1.07 in 1990s. What happened to that windies who never accept defeats in cricket fields as well as in papers analysis.

Since the start of 2000s West Indies went into a fix that never resolve their problems and also could not find their weakness even that all weakness were clearly visible. Their harsh management had put west indies into a wrong track where they also did not know how to come back. They are careless how to judge talent and how to preserve and polish that talent. WICB since 2007, is worse board in cricket, who always shocks their players as well as others too.

In 2000s West Indies had won only 94 one day out of 232 matches, winning ratio was down to hell 0.76. And that decade had iced windies team to settle at one place, i.e never to win even nor tried to win.

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