World Cup / West Indies player's pain after being out of World Cup, emotional appeal to Caribbean cricketers

World Cup: The champion of the first two editions of the ODI Cricket World Cup and a team that ruled 50 over cricket for a long time, probably no one would have thought that this would happen. Where the West Indies team could not make it to the main round of the T20 World Cup 2022 earlier. At the same time, for the first time in the 48-year history of the ODI World Cup, it is going to happen that the two-time world champion team has not reached the main round. The entire cricket world is shocked by the condition of this team. At the same time, former team captain and leading all-rounder Jason Holder is also deeply saddened by this failure. He described this time as his worst time, as well as gave special advice to the board and cricketers to take the falling graph of Windies cricket up.

Holder's passionate appeal

West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder has made an emotional appeal to fellow cricketers after failing to qualify for the World Cup. He has said that all the players should leave the 'provincial' mindset and come together as 'one region' for the betterment of the game. West Indies crashed out of the World Cup qualifiers with a seven-wicket defeat against Scotland in their Super Sixes encounter on Saturday. Earlier in the league stage, Zimbabwe and Netherlands had also defeated the West Indies team. Jasonholder said in the post-match press conference that, it (cricket) is not a personal thing or a provincial thing. We have to unite as a region and think how to move forward as a group or a team. Let us tell you that Cricket West Indies is a group of six federations which include Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Windward Islands.

Holder further said that his team knew the importance of the match against Scotland and they had good chances but they could not win in the end. He told that, we knew what was at stake and we had a chance to qualify. We had chances to beat Scotland but we didn't do it. This is probably one of the worst times I've had with the team. But you know there are still a lot of positive sides. I am extremely happy for Nicholas Pooran, the way he played throughout the tournament. Good to see some young players get a chance on the big stage.

Solution will not come like this

The former West Indies captain also said that any short-term plan will not help West Indies cricket and changes have to be made at the ground level. West Indies' performance has shown 'ups and downs' in the last few years. Given this is not a quick fix, it is something we need to spend time on. As I said, the most important thing is development at the ground level, where we can just put things in the right place and develop our talent. We hope to see the fruits of this in the next few years.