FEARLESS ONE IN THE BOX - PREVIEW OF SECOND ONE DAYER- SATURDAY 12TH APRIL, 2008

PREVIEW OF SECOND ONE DAYER- WEST INDIES VERSUS SRI LANKA                                     

By Andre E Baptiste

 

 

--- CAN’T TAKE MY EYES  OFF OF YOU---

 

 

 

Sport is a meritocracy. Women athletes appeal to men because they work hard. They combine form with function.

Today is D Day , it is another Chapter in the new Christopher Gayle Captaincy legacy. A victory against Sri Lanka on Saturday would ensure the West Indies win the series and would be the first time in the last ten years, that the West Indies has been able to win three(3) consecutive international  matches against a higher ranked team.

In Trinidad and Tobago, the swimsuit model type women who will adorn the Queens Park Oval on Saturday , particularly in the TRINI POSSE stand  appeal to men because they appear never to work . They have no function other than to shill. They are limp fantasies . How does one practice being a fantasy ? Pout in the mirror? Laze languidly beside a swimming pool? Apply eyeliner?.

 As fantasies go they are a thin gruel, too wholesome for pornography, too quaint for fashion. Men who indulge a fancy of perfect beauty, inert and compliant, entertain a hollow and boring delusion.

There is a passage in Plato that won’t leave me in peace.” The natural property of a wing is to raise that which is heavy and carry aloft to the region where the gods dwell,” Socrates notes in the Phaedrus. Later, he says that “all are eager to reach the heights…. (But as most souls) travel, they trample and tread upon one another, this one striving to outstrip that .Thus confusion ensues and conflict and grievous sweat. Whereupon …………. Many are lamed, and many have their wings all broken, and for all their toiling they are balked every one, of the full vision of being, and departing there from, they feed upon the food of semblance. In other words, do not miss this match today for any reason, both the affairs ( no pun intended) on and off the field should be more than interesting.

An old cricketer once said,” you never learn anything until you is tired “and by that criterion, I’m capable of learning plenty right now.

As to the match itself I left word for the Sri Lanka captain Jayawardene two hours ago saying I’d arrived and I wanted to talk about the recent spate of defeats, but he seems like a guy who’d rather give me a stiff beating than a straight answer, so the chance of seeing the Captain’s scrapbook seems remote.

Damien Rice in his song Blowers Daughter says,” I can’t Take my mind off of you  “, and on Saturday there will be a lot of that loving feeling in the air at the Oval.

Rice is really the man for this , giving the proof that Trinidad and Tobago has the most beautiful women, with many saying aloud or in their mind .“ I Can’t take my eyes off of you …and so it is “. Therefore for a lot of people the result will not matter.

So as this West Indies team continues to find answers and ways to win, that are harder than most , the question will be on Saturday , who will step forward and be counted.

Will it be  Ramnaresh Sarwan, Gayle , Dwayne Bravo  or Shiv Chanderpaul again with the bat or even Fidel Edwards, Darren Powell or Jerome Taylor with the ball.

Supporters in Trinidad and Tobago are of a different breed to any other in the Caribbean.

It should be a weekend of BEAUTY, GAIN and NO  RAIN.

By the way a West Indies victory would help.

:: AB