Cuthbert Monchoir asks

weekend games.

The older chaps with lesser opportunities and perhaps greater dedication have stuck with it, but age has its drawbacks.

It is yet another area that the local cricket administration will have to address. The mouthing of the local cricket development programme has become a cliche, but the closest the GCBC has come to action is false starts, and if you know track and field rules, after three you are disqualified.

That’s the suggestion. Disqualify the present cricket and take a model from Antigua which undoubtedly has the best programme. So when we develop players for the future they will have sound foundations.

The GCBC must also look into itself. Our representatives must certainly be more forceful than diplomatic since we are now looked upon as a poor underdeveloped cousin of the West Indies.

The Board must seek to tidy up its act both locally and regionally.

I wonder when another Guyanese will make the Selection Panel,…I suppose Clive Lloyd is our only hope in the foreseeable future.

So the fact is, we are weak and in no position to negotiate therefore we have to live with the ‘eyepass.’ But there is some solace. At least it will be our boys who will push the water cart onto the field and the stands in which we’ll sit is made of local wood like the commentary box that will have at least one Guyanese voice “crying in the wilderness.”

But perhaps we will not have to suffer after all, the merciful and unmerciful weather may come to our aid.