Something's up at the ARG, St. John's...

I am sure that the WIndies are throwing this match.

No matter what happens now, even if my mood lifts - I am seeing the logical conclusion
of PayTV as enacted through Caribbean cricket.

Less than 10% of the paying customers are 'locals', ie Antiguans.

The great majority of the crowd are Brits.

This is about SkyTV hegemony, and all kinds of
skullduggery. The event will carry on regardless.

The Eng-ur-land have claimed the ARG. Great TV,
but is it cricket?

Welcome to neo-colonialism, C21 style.

The WICB are greedy little basket (cases)

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I hope (against hope) that a great game of cricket will start tomorrow (Sunday, 15th February). I am furious at the WICB and their blind greed. If, as some newspaper reports suggest, groundstaff highlighted serious issues at the North Sound arena from November 2008, then why did the relevant authorities not ’fess up and do something about it back then?

Money.

The Caribbean-based cricketing board feared losing revenue from visiting England fans, and West Indies supporters arriving from other Caribbean countries.

If people had been thinking clearly, there might have been time to knock the old Antigua Recreation Ground back into some kind of shape, or even move the Test to another ground on another island or country - as with the Sabina Park débacle in 1998.

Sadly, I don’t think any heads will roll over this sorry saga at the WICB. And bwoy, heads should roll.

Sir Vivian Master-Blaster must be the main executioner. The poor man, all this has broken his heart. This just makes me angry, and more than a little disgusted if I’m honest.