well bwoy! Harold BG Austin as a bajan white Jefe in the westindies, a true region spanning big bwoy who build the wicbc as it was den known. y
uh ent see wat James said of Austin with Constantine involved somewhere in here...that westindies cricket is the house dat Jack built...dat same Austin. and as we cyan see Austin built really strong because the house still standing despite all de 'wreckers' and dem do to bring it dong!
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What Role did these Chaps play?
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what Worrell did for and with and in the westindies between 1960-61 and 1973 when he retired, was long conceived of, spoken about and intended to accomplish by Constantine and Headley.
these 2 saw westindies as full of talent, better than the opposition they regularly lost to but for discipline, organisation, team selection and quality leadership. they saw the problem in the socail relations of the region based on colonialism, class and skin colour, relationships of wealth and its lack of.
those were the reasons why the best side wasnt picked including the best captain. and there was never the team cohesiveness led by the white guys who were oten at loggerheads with each other, based on island rivalries.
so although worrell was in himself, by personality, intelligence and skill, by time and iopportunity, the figure seemingly made for the job he accomlished, that job, in its essential contours and internal content, was long understood by Worrells predecessors, who had every intent circumstanecs willing to achieve exactly what he ultimately did.
these 2 saw westindies as full of talent, better than the opposition they regularly lost to but for discipline, organisation, team selection and quality leadership. they saw the problem in the socail relations of the region based on colonialism, class and skin colour, relationships of wealth and its lack of.
those were the reasons why the best side wasnt picked including the best captain. and there was never the team cohesiveness led by the white guys who were oten at loggerheads with each other, based on island rivalries.
so although worrell was in himself, by personality, intelligence and skill, by time and iopportunity, the figure seemingly made for the job he accomlished, that job, in its essential contours and internal content, was long understood by Worrells predecessors, who had every intent circumstanecs willing to achieve exactly what he ultimately did.
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the first great westindian batsman, by which discription I mean in the trend of what we have come to know as great westindian batting...orthodx technique on which basis is skillfully constructed, the most brilliant risk-taking strokeplay the world has come to accept as distinctly, uniquely westindian.
as far as i know the first, main, man was Challenor, a name known and loved in every westindian household in his time.
Challenor became a school teacher by profession and taught in the westndies until he died at the age of 59. one of his teaching posts I believe was in Grenada which is where I thought he spent his final, days until I saw the report above.
these were not just white men, superior and all that went with all of that. there were white westindians who were very classy people, who lived and worked in the wesindies as if it was home in all the best sense of that term.
from what I know so far George Challenor was one such westindian who happened to be white, and as such qualifies as a headmaster.
the first great westindian batsman, by which discription I mean in the trend of what we have come to know as great westindian batting...orthodx technique on which basis is skillfully constructed, the most brilliant risk-taking strokeplay the world has come to accept as distinctly, uniquely westindian.
as far as i know the first, main, man was Challenor, a name known and loved in every westindian household in his time.
Challenor became a school teacher by profession and taught in the westndies until he died at the age of 59. one of his teaching posts I believe was in Grenada which is where I thought he spent his final, days until I saw the report above.
these were not just white men, superior and all that went with all of that. there were white westindians who were very classy people, who lived and worked in the wesindies as if it was home in all the best sense of that term.
from what I know so far George Challenor was one such westindian who happened to be white, and as such qualifies as a headmaster.