LEROY: So Sabina Park finally getting a technology upgrade and we supposed to celebrate? The hallowed turf of West Indian cricket been waiting on this for how long now? Twenty years? Thirty?
CHERYL: Leroy, you can’t have it both ways. Either we want the modernisation or we don’t. The same diaspora that complains about poor coverage is the same one that will complain when the cameras and the pitch sensors finally arrive.
YARDMAN: Cheryl right. But the timing suspicious. Sabina get the upgrade. Courtney Francis say he don’t know if he fired or not after twenty years as JCA CEO. Both stories drop the same week. You don’t smell something?
DE STATSMAN: Let me put it plain. Two decades of institutional knowledge potentially gone with no formal notice — that’s a governance problem, not a sports problem. The technology investment is fine. The CEO situation is a mess. Don’t conflate them.
LEROY: De Statsman, you and your numbers always trying to flatten the politics out of it. You can’t separate the boardroom from the playing surface in West Indies cricket. Never could.
CHERYL: And here come Guyana now talking about hosting FIBA Men’s Caribbean Championship from July 8 to 12 at Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. After seven years. Independence Day basketball — Jacobs going to love that one.
YARDMAN: Yeah but is the Cliff Anderson ready? Last time I check, ceiling did still have water mark from that 2022 leak.
DE STATSMAN: Capacity at Cliff Anderson is roughly 4,500. Average FIBA Caribbean Championship gate over the last decade is 3,200. Math works. The leak is a procurement question, not a hosting question.
LEROY: Procurement question. Listen to this man. Yardman, you ever hear Caribbean basketball described in procurement terms?
YARDMAN: Only when somebody trying to avoid answering a real question.
CHERYL: Boys, the West Indies women begin final prep this week for the T20 World Cup. Can we focus on that for half a minute? Or we just doing the men’s game and the politics today?
DE STATSMAN: The women’s prep is statistically more interesting. Last cycle they outperformed expected win share by 14%.
LEROY: Twenty-six men in this region and Cheryl the one bringing balance to the conversation. Tells you everything.
YARDMAN: Same time next week.
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