So, we have come to the final today in the inaugural Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL).This is a fitting climax as the most consistent teams overall in the competition have come to the top, ably led by West Indies stalwarts Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle and/or Kieron Pollard.Without even considering their team-mates, this is full redemption for Sarwan, discarded by West Indies after this year's Champions Trophy, Pollard for his initial unacceptance in his adopted team in Barbados and for Gayle, whose very importance still does not seem to register with some. However, now that we have tasted from this wonderful chalice of cricket, Twenty20 version, what else is there to look forward to, to replace this dazzling excitement that we have experienced?Yes, the initial LCPL has been truly, stunningly brilliant; for colour, for intensity, for enjoyment and pure unadulterated fun, and even for generally, players' magnificent efforts.
So, even if you were dead, you should all thoroughly have enjoyed the event over the last six weeks.But, everything, good and bad, must eventually come to an end, whenever that end arrives.After the last several weeks of an event that has, most definitely, capsulated what the entire Caribbean has been known to be about, carnival atmosphere everywhere, relatively careless and carefree existences, consummation of all things human, and those man-made too, total titillation, what happens next?Oh, of course life will go on as it inevitably would and does, but the entire Caribbean facade will be sorely missing a relatively new form of ultra-entertainment, a fanciful facet that has never been seen in this heightened guise, in these celebrated parts.I know that we have had the then eye-opening, even enjoyable too, Stanford T20 Series from 2006-2008, as staged and financed by now disgraced financier R Allen Stanford.
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