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The Beckles’, The Gayles, The Dons, Caribbean Cricket, and Slavery: A Rudie Awakening

By Clairmont Chung All of the three people, who read my blog, counting my siblings, know I have written about the strange decisions of the West Indies Cricket Board and proposed reasons. Now, one of the WICB’s directors, Sir Hilary Beckles dramatically clarified these strange decisions and the WICB’s intentions. The WICB has dropped, fired and maligned some of the best players in the world. Prof. Hilary Beckles, also the Principal at University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, recently addressed an audience in St. Kitts, at the annual Frank Worrell Memorial lecture entitled  “Frank Worrell: The Rise & Fall of West Indies Cricket” [i] . In that address, Dr. Beckles described the attitude some players, namely Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels, exhibit as ‘donmanship’. He said, "Those who follow him (Gayle) and his cohort in the team do relate to him as their don and it is said that he has brought the donmanship into how things operate in the (West Indies) team....