Champions Trophy without Champions
Two ICC Cricket World Cup titles, Two ICC World Twenty20 titles, One ICC Champions
Trophy title - What more needs a team to be called as Champions? From mid 1970s to the early
1990s cricket without West Indies was just a loaf of bread without butter. Still the names Sir Garfield Sobers, Gordon Greenidge, Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Andy Robert, Sir Curtly Ambrose, Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh and Sir Viv Richards act as synonyms to cricket.
But gone are those days, now bread alone is equally delicious as with butter.
They recently won ICC World Twenty20 (2016) but are just above Afganistan in ICC ODI
rankings at 9th. They still have the players-to-beat in the form of Gayle, Bravo, Narine, Pollard,
Samueles, Badri or Holder but not a team. They are not able to make a team, sometimes it is
pay-dispute or other relates to players' discipline and behaviour or even the bureucracy and
racialism in some cases.
Among the 8 teams playing Champions Trophy, two of them (Bangladesh & South Africa) still have to win an ICC tournament; and the winner of 5 major ICC titles is into bilateral war with an associate member of ICC; that is also an achievement but for the latter i.e. Afganistan.
The question is- not if Cricket Wet Indies (formerly West Indies Cricket Board) is able then what is ICC doing? Is ICC's work is only to put West Indians into Hall of Fame.
that's point
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