West Indies fast bowling great Curtly Ambrose has made a startling remark on the West Indies cricket, saying it will not witness those great and exceptional glory days again as the 80s and 90s.
The West Indies cricket team has been struggling across all three formats of the game for a long time and even at the moment, they are ranked 8th in the Test and ODI rankings while 10th in the T20I rankings despite having a number of talented cricketers at the side.
Explaining his remark that the glory days from the glorious era will never return in the West Indies cricket, Ambrose said a lot of the youngsters from the current generation don’t understand what cricket means to the West Indians, saying cricket is the only sport that really unites Caribbean people.
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Speaking on the Talk Sports Live show in Antigua, Ambrose said: “Most of the youngsters we have now probably don’t quite understand what cricket means to West Indians in the West Indies and abroad because cricket is the only sport that really unites Caribbean people.”
However, the former pacer admitted that the current West Indies team has a couple of quality players, but they will never find again the legends like Sir Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Clive Llyod, or Courtney Walsh.
The 57-year-old further said, “This is no disrespect to the players we have now because we have a couple of guys who have some quality in them and can become great, but what we have to understand is that I don’t think we will ever see those great, exceptional glory days again.”
He continued, “It’s going to be difficult to find another Viv Richards or a Haynes and Greenidge, a Brian Lara, Richie Richardson, you know, a Malcolm Marshall, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, and the list goes on and on, Clive Lloyd. It’s going to be extremely difficult to find those quality players again.”
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Ambrose also mentioned that the West Indies can go as far as climbing up the ICC rankings and be a force to be reckoned with again, but the glory days from the glorious era will never return.
He signed off by saying, “When we were the best team in the world, West Indians all over the globe could walk and boast about how good we were because we were the best, so it’s going to be difficult to see those glory days again.
Yes, we can be competitive and climb up the ICC rankings and be a force to be reckoned with again, but those glory days, I don’t think we will see them again.”
