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Is Barbados the greatest cricket country on the planet?


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  1. 1. Strongest test nation (AT squad) of all time?

    • Yes
    • No, Australia is better
    • At par with Australia
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Posted (edited)

Bridgetown, Barbados hosting today's final. 

 

Population of the country 2.2 lakhs. Area of the country 430 km^2, less than Meerut, Indore, Surat, Bhopal, Warrangal etc.

 

Greenidge

Haynes
Conrad Hunte

Worrell

Weekes

Walcott

Seymour Nurse

Sobers

Marshall

Griffith

Wes Hall

Joel Garner

Vanburn Holder

Sylvester Clarke

 

Reckon this side will give AT Aus XI a run for the money, only an elite spinner is missing. 

 

More recent players (post 2000)

 

Sherwin Campbell

Vasbert Drakes

Collymore

Pedro Collins

Hinds

Tino Best

Fidel Edwards

Dwayne Smith

Ian Bradshaw

Suleiman Benn

Roach

Both the Brathwaites

Holder

Shai Hope

Chase

Dowrich

Kyle Mayers

Brooks

 

 

Edited by Gollum
Posted
16 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Bridgetown, Barbados hosting today's final. 

 

Population of the country 2.2 lakhs. Area of the country 430 km^2, less than Meerut, Indore, Surat, Bhopal, Warrangal etc.

 

Greenidge

Haynes
Conrad Hunte

Worrell

Weekes

Walcott

Seymour Nurse

Sobers

Marshall

Griffith

Wes Hall

Joel Garner

Vanburn Holder

Sylvester Clarke

 

Reckon this side will give AT Aus XI a run for the money, only an elite spinner is missing. 

 

More recent players (post 2000)

 

Sherwin Campbell

Vasbert Drakes

Collymore

Pedro Collins

Hinds

Tino Best

Fidel Edwards

Dwayne Smith

Ian Bradshaw

Suleiman Benn

Roach

Both the Brathwaites

Holder

Shai Hope

Chase

Dowrich

Kyle Mayers

Brooks

 

 


one player who makes most batsman not want to bat: Marshall Malcolm! Pheww

Posted
17 hours ago, Forward Defence said:

@Gollum Great post. Can you make one on Antigua. It is even smaller and has given us Richards, Roberts and Ambrose

Antigua population 93000, 

 

Viv Richards

Andy Roberts

Ambrose

Richie Richardson

 

Other guys:

Arthurton

Winston Benjamin (his son won 1 gold, 2 silver in sprint events in Tokyo Olympics, world championship gold, second fastest timing in 400 m hurdles history)

Stuart Williams

Ridley Jacobs

Alzarri Joseph

Rakheem Cornwall

 

 

Posted

Jamaica 28 lakhs population

 

George Headley aka Black Bradman

Roy Gilchrist

Lawrence Rowe

Holding

Dujon

Walsh

Patrick Patterson

Jimmy Adams

Gayle

Samuels (worth a mention because of the 2 WT20 finals)

 

and many of their T20 guys

Posted (edited)

Jamaica in Olympics

 

26 gold

36 silver

26 bronze

 

India

10 gold

9 silver

16 bronze

 

In fact so many Caribbean islands with 30k-40k population but better Olympics records than South Asia minus India. 

Edited by Gollum
Posted
13 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Jamaica in Olympics

 

26 gold

36 silver

26 bronze

 

India

10 gold

9 silver

16 bronze

 

In fact so many Caribbean islands with 30k-40k population but better Olympics records than South Asia minus India. 

 

Carribean has better athletic genes even among those of african descent. They will always beat their american and canadian black couterparts.

Posted
12 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Jamaica in Olympics

 

26 gold

36 silver

26 bronze

 

India

10 gold

9 silver

16 bronze

 

In fact so many Caribbean islands with 30k-40k population but better Olympics records than South Asia minus India. 

That is actually a matter of debate in whole world as they all are slave descendants. Slaves that survived horrible conditions plus bred like animals where strongest tallest slaves were bred for future generations. 

 

 

 

 

Posted (edited)

T&T 15 lakhs

 

Sonny Ramadhin

Deryck Murray

Larry Gomes

Lara 

Bishop

 

Gus Logie

Phil Simmons

Jumadeen

Mervyn Dillon

Darren Ganga

Ravi Rampaul

Ramadhin

Dwayne Bravo

Pollard

Lendl Simmons

Narine

Shannon Gabriel

Pooran 

Joshua D Silva

etc.

 

Many others from recent WI teams. 

 

Edited by Gollum
Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

Got anything on T&T and the other small islands like St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis etc?

St Lucia pop 1.8 lakhs

 

Not much...Sammy (1st international cricketers from St Lucia), Johnson Charles

 

Grenada, St Kitts, Nevis, nothing much. Few T20 league tullas and players with 5-10 international appearances. 

 

Edited by Gollum
Posted (edited)

Grenada has Anderson Peters, one of Neeraj Chopra's main rivals, someone who beat our GOAT for gold in 2 World Championships. PB 93 metres, multiple throws over 90. Watch out for him in Paris. 

 

Even that liliput country (smaller than some Indian villages) has a gold , a bronze since 2012 London. Pakistan zero after their 1992 hockey bronze. 

Edited by Gollum

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