Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting

[King]

Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting MELBOURNE: The West Indies may have made a concerted effort to build infrastrusture for the cricket World Cup but Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is unimpressed and feels the training facilities in the Caribbean continue to be the 'worst in the world'. "Since I was here for the first time, in 1995, that's 12 years of touring here, training facilities have always been the worst in the world by a long, long way," Ponting was quoted as saying by 'The Australian'. "I have been on tours here where you could hardly practise between Test matches. You might train up on the Test venue and have a few throwdowns on the outfield and that was just about as much as you could do," he added. Ponting said it was important that the West Indies continued to work on their infrastructure as it was crucial to their chances of reviving cricket in the country. "Once they get those facilities in place, they will start attracting more kids to the game and their first-class teams will be able to train and prepare better." "This will bring on better players and their national team will be able to get some great quality preparation as well," he explained. The Aussie skipper felt despite the flop show that the World Cup was turning out to be, the West Indies would benefit from the showpiece event financially but would have to make sure that the money was spent in the right direction. "I think this World Cup is a huge event for the West Indies. If they don't maximise the money that is generated from this World Cup in terms of getting their infrastructure and facilities right, then they could really fall by the wayside," Ponting said. "I think money has always been an issue. Now they have this huge amount of money, they need to look after it and spend it in the right way," he added. Ponting also felt Brian Lara's men failed to cope with the pressure of playing at home. "I think they have probably felt a bit of the pressure being at home in this World Cup, and being spoken about a fair bit as one of the real contenders," he said. But West Indies great Larry Gomes has accussed the out-of-the-tournament hosts of lacking the love for the game despite playing in front of their home crowd. "In the first game we played well, we looked like world champions. After that, although we won other games, we didn't look well at all," Gomes said. "I would say we didn't look as though we were playing like a team after the first game. While the West Indies is playing they have to take into account the West Indian crowd and play with that passion," he added.

[King]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting Whoever said be a good guest :hic:

[Parth]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting This was not needed by Punter, he shouldn't have said this, he needs to get it into his head that not every country is as rich as Australia.

[Holysmoke]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting Punter starts his crap again. :shrug:

[shailesh]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting what a scumbag :shrug: why don't you stay at home and just play games in australia then.

[KGWicK]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting I hate Pointing. He always have to have problems with something. This isnt his country, WI may have money or other issues they may constraint them from having facilities. If Pointing has problems than with his team, they should leave home because I dont want to see them either. :mad:

[Predator_05]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting Oh, stop being so touchy people ! Ponting is absolutely right. The Windies need to get their cricketing infrastructure in order. Don't you remember some of these pics from India's summer tour ?

[Chaos]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting damn sehwag, he looks like a short sumo

[Mandrake]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting One of the objectives of having the cup in the windies was to generate some much needed revenue for the windies board....Ponting might have a point here...its a no brainer that facilities are not at all good in the Carribean.BTW it seems to me that with India and Pak knocked out in the first round,and dwindling crowds at the matches,this wcup is not doing good financially..

[Gaurav]

Re: Caribbean facilities are worst in the world: Ponting I like the blue colour of those Indian T.shirts. Motu ke belly hello keh rahi hai :lmao: