In recent days in Trinidad, a truly phenomenal event took place in the form of a regional 4-day cricket tournament. It was probably not widely seen because it was not a weekend, but day after day, for four consecutive days, a Guyana-Trinidad match took place in the immaculate Queen’s Park Oval with its newly grassed outfield. Ordinary scenario, so far, but here’s the phenomenal part: apart from the players and the ground staff and the umpires there were only six people, that’s right, six, in the stadium…and they were the TV announcers – Ian Bishop, Curtly Ambrose, Barry Wilkinson, etc. In other words, nobody, as in none, for three days in a row, came to the match. Shocking is the only word to describe the television pictures of the four vacant Queen’s Park stands, looming over the field like dead sentinels, day after day.
