West Indies Cricket Fans

BRENDAN Nash says his hope to re-find a love of cricket inspired his rapid transition from the Test arena to Melbourne's suburban scene and his surprise signing for Doutta Stars.

The former West Indies vice captain, barely a week settled in Moonee Valley, made 13 and took three wickets at the weekend as Doutta Stars lost to Westmeadows in the opening round of Victorian Turf Cricket Association.

Nash, 33, was playing for the West Indies as recently as June before being dropped from the international team.

The Australian-born, Queensland-raised Nash said he had not been contacted by any national selectors since his omission. Nash decided against playing for his List-A team Jamaica and instead opted for a new start in the Australian summer.

But few expected Doutta Stars to be the path he'd choose.

Nash has not lived in Melbourne previously, but with wife Hannah and daughter Hallie, 1, has relocated to the Essendon area.

Nash's manager had fielded a WA offer but a quick negotiation period with Doutta Stars sealed a deal.

"This is the next step in my career – to come back and see if I can get the love of the game," Nash said.

"These guys at this level are playing for the love of it and that's the feeling I want to get back. That was why I started playing the game and I hope the group helps me get that spirit back.

"It was just by chance that the opportunity came up at the right time.

"It came to fruition in a few days and I had to decide on moving. There's no regrets, that's for sure."

Nash said it had been about a year since he he had stopped worrying about off-field issues and his on-field performances were good.

"Maybe I felt it slipping away, so that's why I'm trying to grasp it again before it goes," he said.

"At this stage I'm not coming back [to Jamaica] for a while, until further notice. I was thinking about leaving because things weren't going the way I'd hoped, to be honest ... more personal reasons, so I wanted to come back to Australia." Link

Sad news for those of us who are fans of Nash, but mapoui must be popping open the champers....

I think this is a shame, because Nash was one of the few additions to the WI batting order who was able to stay there in recent years. From that story, and the reference to personal reasons, I'm guessing that his fiancee was homesick, and he seems to have become disappointed with the way the cricket authorities operate in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

mikesiva wrote:Sad news for those of us who are fans of Nash, but mapoui must be popping open the champers....

I think this is a shame, because Nash was one of the few additions to the WI batting order who was able to stay there in recent years. From that story, and the reference to personal reasons, I'm guessing that his fiancee was homesick, and he seems to have become disappointed with the way the cricket authorities operate in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

I dont drink dat mike! I prefer something mild

seriously...there is nutten to be happy about in this. skanshs' inclusion was pure corruption, full of hypocrissy, race and class...exposing the sick state of westindian society.

it was never all about skansh who was just a sort of catalist, energising a public example of the westindian state of existence. there will be more...jess watch!

I knew dat skansh wud fail totally. it took far longer than I expected dats all! he failed in cold, spring england a year or so ago. that was more like his true level.

I expected the Lankans to put an end to him but somehow he came through that series looking good. instead the wickets in the westindies changed and all of a sudden every one of them required real batting skill to survive. no more featherbeds. skansh in trouble!

a brilliant Dravid showed the way, and shive followed, demonstrating how to bat when the bowlers have a chance on a wicket.

sknash failed totally, comprehensively, wihtout excuse and recourse. dat is because he cant bat in all conditions as is required of true test class batsmen.

dat is why he was dropped...because finally his mediocrity could not be hidden anymore. clearly skansh could not and would never score against the oppostion we faced so he was dropped after ample oportunity to prove himself

Was waiting on a Nash's interview but not of this sort...he need to dig deep and really tell everyone how he really felt about being dropped.

This interview is one that you would expect from a fencesitter...Nash dissappoint me here!!!

I think this is a shame, because Nash was one of the few additions to the WI batting order who was able to stay there in recent years. From that story, and the reference to personal reasons, I'm guessing that his fiancee was homesick, and he seems to have become disappointed with the way the cricket authorities operate in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

so sknashs girlfriend or wife is homesick and he is gone. deh are or maybe disenchanted with how the JCA/wicb functions!

dat is so sweet! sugar indeed. the very system that worked in sknash favour, gave him a a lease on cricket life when the oz had no use for him, he abandons in recrimination..or implied disatisfaction.

but a decison to give up westindian cricket so quickly exposes the carpetbagging, selfish narture of skansh and his caribbean sojourn for the wicb had given no indication that skansh would never have been selected again.

if there is anything to that it must be a conclusion by skansh himself that he would never be selected again, so he made tracts back to Oz

Westdem wrote:Was waiting on a Nash's interview but not of this sort...he need to dig deep and really tell everyone how he really felt about being dropped.

This interview is one that you would expect from a fencesitter...Nash dissappoint me here!!!

yu are a fantasist with an agenda that contains the destruction of westindies cricket. you are so extreme, so bent on your purpose dat you seek to twist reality to your purpose, where there is no possibility at all that reality can be so twisted.

there is no possibility at all that skansh would or can say anthing negative about westindies cricket without exposing himself ans his family to great ridicule and accusations of ingratidute.

skansh in doing so would break all connections his parents retain with their former Jamaica clique, people like Jackie Hendricks with whom his parents have a life long relationship.

Hendricks is one of the people who stood up for the skanshes and got lil Brondon into the westindies team. there is no way he would diss that connection.

yu are a fantasist with an agenda that contains the destruction of westindies cricket. you are so extreme, so bent on your purpose dat you seek to twist reality to your purpose, where there is no possibility at all that reality can be so twisted.

My agenda is to get westindies cricket into the right direction and get us back to being relevant, aite?
Right now it is being destroyed by those who are intent to do just that and if NASH can only be honest about de whole situation as it is currently, he has a lot of insight and just cause to force a change.....Gayle, Sarwan, Big Bravo, JT Fidel and Shiv all spoke out and the more we get the less SPONSORS will be attracted to our inferior leaders and product....

Nasty mind people will always find ways to get rid of those who can help them!

Nash back in Oz to find his cricketing groove back!

mikesiva wrote:Sad news for those of us who are fans of Nash, but mapoui must be popping open the champers....

I think this is a shame, because Nash was one of the few additions to the WI batting order who was able to stay there in recent years. From that story, and the reference to personal reasons, I'm guessing that his fiancee was homesick, and he seems to have become disappointed with the way the cricket authorities operate in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

A looking faward for a tell all book coming soon.. This could be a more profitable venture

VC Nash was a threat to Sammy and they had to rid him with just a few bad games..

VC Nash was a threat to Sammy and they had to rid him with just a few bad games..

dream on. but dont wait too long! dat wud be like holding your breath too long. yu know the consequences of that.

those werent just bad games fro which lil Brandon got dropped. dat was exposure. the man cud do nothng with indian/pak bowling. sknish was very lucky to get in, in the first place. it was a corruption through which he passed into the westindies side

if sknush attacks the wicb he too will be mercilessly attacked and exposed for the mediocrity and parasite he is.

also wud be attacked is the corruption by which lil Brondon got into the westindies team. and dat is going to embarrass a whole lot of people in Jamaica and at Factory Road.

if any such book sells the money is all skonsh may get.

but then again skranch is jess an ordinary, mediocre pesonality in the game, whose prominence is entirely due to the fact that he is white and Oz, and went back to the caribbean to parasite on our declined and needful cricket situation.

who the hell would spend good money to read lil Brindons bleatings now!

and books arent cheap anymore....at least when they are just released. for all who wud want to read such a book I advise a wait of about 3 months after publication. by then they shud be giving the damm things away