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Caribbean T20 or Carry-pain T20!!!

Exactly what do you expect from a tournament, where domestic teams of one of the weakest Test nations are plying their trade? Boring cricket, Tiring cricket or not at all cricket! Well being privy to some of the matches, it can be safely said that Trinidad & Tobago had more interest in the proceedings than Barbados, where the first half of the tournament took place

In what can be seen as a turn of events sort of things, a spinner has been awarded the MVP award. After the retirement of Ambrose, Fidel Edwards has been the most successful bowler with 122 wickets and it has been ten years since Ambrose has retired

Coming back to the tournament itself, the cricket board pumping in the money that it actually did was encouraging but one feels that it was pumped into a wrong cause in a wrong format. Its the Test matches that West Indies is struggling in and the money could have been pumped into the longer format. One of the biggest positives from the tournament is that the paying public has not entirely lost interest in cricket as was judged from failures in hosting two World Cups ( ODI and T20)

There were a few individual finds from the tournament, notably Jonathan Foo, Devendra Bishoo, and Krishmar Santokie. Its actually a pity that they can't seem to find a decent fast bowler considering the legacy they have had in that department. Spinners are dime a dozen and all they do is, spear in faster deliveries. The basics of flight and turn seem to have been lost on them

There are a couple of reasons why people will remember the tournament. One of them being, the tie in the Super over and Barbados prevailing on the basis of number of sixes hit in both the innings put together but on a whole it seemed as if both the teams were trying to lose the match and the other reason being Foo's Houdini act for Guyana in the final

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