Why this could be Australia’s final Test tour of the West Indies

Three days after Saturday’s night test at Kingston, the pottery of Australia came from Michael Holding End in Sabina Park while making its preparations fine -tuning.

At 23.68, 249 test small gates demanded the Holding, the match will not be in Jamaica. No desire to be.

“To be honest, I passed through the cricket, Holding Holding said. “The authorities do what anyone feels independently of what they say, so there is no need to continue to beat my head on a stone wall. I don’t watch the games anymore, so I’m sorry, but I can’t help you.”

The Holding’s words reflect a wider disappointment between the Caribbean – a region where the relevance of the test cricket is sharply in the rise of the T20 leagues and the rise of changing priorities.

The signs of the decreasing footprint of the game are everywhere. Participation in Barbados and Grenada tests were humble, and the majority of fans were flying from Australia.

Many of them had pilgrimage, believing that it could be the last opportunity to witness a West Indian Islands test round against Australia.

The enthusiasm for the test cricket between the locals decreased. When this came to Masthead Kingston, a taxi driver proudly shared his plans to participate in the “20th match”.

He did not realize that the third test was planned between 12-16 July. The game in mind was a T20 fixture to follow the test series.

Holding’s indifference about the situation of the game is disappointed by another legendary West Indian Fast Bowling player in Andy Roberts.

“It would be embarrassing that the West Indian Islands were banned from playing at the highest level because they are currently fighting, Rob Roberts said.

“All teams are going through such situations, they accept that they do not do much to return to the highest level of jack of the West Indian Islands. They focus more on money and this will be the end of the jack.

“I think I think something should be done for the future of the criches to maintain the highest standards. T20 is damaging the test cricket. Look at Australia. The strokes are weak.

Competitiveness is another factor that affects Australia’s desire to tour. Between 1980 and 1995, the West Indian Islands did not lose a test series – a remarkable line covering 29 campaigns. Since April 1999, they have beat Australia only twice.

The host party had the chance to demand victory in both Barbados and Grenada, but the fragile stroke was very expensive.

Todd Greenberg, General Manager of Cricket Australia, told Masthead before the West Indian Islands series, “We have shown our desire to continue playing test criches both here and abroad,” he said. “This is quite well proven by the fact that we have played three tests on the West Indian Islands. This is a complex calendar, the global calendar of the dual jack.

“The next ICC meeting is planned for July [in Singapore]That’s why I was hoping a little bit more about it [the Futures Tour Program]. “

However, Roberts believes that the rates are stacked against the team and the ICC and the West Indian islands jack does not do enough to remove the fighting giant.

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“If he was one of the highest -level teams, Britain, India or Australia, where the West Indian Islands lived, will be given a helping hand and a hand will be given to help them.” He said.

“We need the managers playing crickets. We dug a grave for ourselves because we do not have people playing the game at the highest level and managing the game.”

If this is indeed Australia’s post -test tour on the West Indian Islands, it will be a quiet warning that even the most iconic competitions of the game are not immune to the changing tides of the jack.