The fact that the national cricket team was vanquished inside of three days by defending champions Barbados at home in the second round of the West Indies Cricket Board’s regional four day encounter might for some be inconsequential, trivial, no big thing for, after all, this is Guyana and such things often do not merit a second thought, or, are soon forgotten.
However, when one considers that this is the national team’s second outright defeat in the tournament, compounded by the manner in which they succumbed in their own backyard, by the huge margin of 136 runs, at least those in charge of the nation’s cricket should be concerned for after all cricket is still the national sport.
At the start of this regional four day tournament, expectations were high. Leon Johnson was named skipper