?The in­abil­i­ty of West In­dies crick­et to main­tain the pin­na­cle which it was renowned for in yes­ter­years must be of con­cern to any sport-mind­ed in­di­vid­ual. The Aussies es­tab­lished a crick­et acad­e­my when the West In­dies dom­i­nat­ed crick­et, Eng­land and In­dia have pur­sued pro­grammes of sus­tained com­pet­i­tive­ness. How­ev­er, the con­tin­u­ous emer­gence of teenage pro­teges from Pak­istan at­tract­ed some at­ten­tion. The most re­cent is 17-year-old Mo­ham­mad Aamir, who was en­trust­ed to open the at­tack for Pak­istan. In­ves­ti­ga­tion showed that cor­po­rate in­sti­tu­tions have played a ma­jor role in the de­vel­op­ment of play­ers. Ap­par­ent­ly when a young per­son age l2-13 years shows po­ten­tial, a cor­po­rate in­sti­tu­tion would spon­sor that per­son aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, so­cial­ly and with train­ing and coach­ing pro­grammes. This looks more like 6/6 vi­sion.

William Dal­ton-Brown

Port-of-Spain