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*Official* Bangladesh Tour of West Indies (& Guyana) 2022

Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
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Meet Jeremy Solozano, son of Enzo and Carmella Solozano. Enzo and Carmella were both born in Naples and moved to Trinidad as children. Jeremy's favourite things growing up were cricket, soca music and his nonna's delicious pastas. His middle name is Garibaldi.
 
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Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
SillyCowCorner1 said:
He’s mixed…a lot of that happens in Trinidad and Guyana.
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Nah fair enough, I get that. Just the combination of Italian name and Indian face got me. I've seen white-passing people with desi names, and desi-looking people with Anglo names, but that's a new one for me.
 
SillyCowCorner1

SillyCowCorner1

Moooo
Aritro said:
Nah fair enough, I get that. Just the combination of Italian name and Indian face got me. I've seen white-passing people with desi names, and desi-looking people with Anglo names, but that's a new one for me.
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Trinidad is a very unique place. Some of the names,

Port of Spain
San Fernando
Diego Martin
Sangre grand
 
GotSpin

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
Aritro said:
I wish this was true, but it isn't. The only gems are the fast bowlers. Then there's the "useful but not outstanding" in Mayers and Da Silva*, and the "thank **** he's finally test class" in Brathwaite and the rest are crap.

I'd love them to be rich enough to put some of these gun white ball batsmen on Australia/England sized central contracts. Then they might have played some red ball cricket and we'd have found out if they could have made a go of it.

They will however be (hopefully) a lot better now that they've finally had a proper first class season to for the first time in three years. They'll probably beat us by a record margin in fact.

*Happy to be corrected on Da Silva
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The windies definitely have the bowling talent at the moment but they won't be serious or consistent contenders until they have a bat in the middle order averaging in the high 40s at the very least
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
Windies folk; is cricket still more popular than football in Guyana and sweet, sweet T & T? How about Barbados?

Particularly interested in the first two places as I read cricket has a particularly strong following among the rural Indian population, which I gather is a pretty large proportion of the total population in both. Also Barbados still seems to produce a lot of world class cricketers.
 
Shady Slim

Shady Slim

International Coach
Aritro said:
We've done his average a lot of favours. We're good like that.
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artiro you're a wonderful poster but don't fall into the @cnerd123 trap of the bangla fan who has an each way bet with his teams

(i think i've seen you use the collective noun for aus before as well? i think?)
 
SillyCowCorner1

SillyCowCorner1

Moooo
Aritro said:
Windies folk; is cricket still more popular than football in Guyana and sweet, sweet T & T? How about Barbados?

Particularly interested in the first two places as I read cricket has a particularly strong following among the rural Indian population, which I gather is a pretty large proportion of the total population in both. Also Barbados still seems to produce a lot of world class cricketers.
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Speaking for Guyana, cricket is huge asf!

Where I am from, the ancient county of Berbice, we are the powerhouse. We have produced Kanhai, Kallicharan, Joe Solomon, and a few others…Hetmyer, Romario…Our county is country as country gets.

But in Demerara (which includes the capital city, Georgetown), there are some good talents. There’s Imlach, Leon Johnson, Tage, who else? Hemraj, Vishaul Singh

And then there’s Essequibo (Cinderella county), kinda like Berbice but more like a cousin…there’s Keemo Paul
Essequibo is huge…lots of islands, so cricket is concentrated on the bigger islands.
Ramnaresh Sarwan is from Wakenaam Island in the Essequibo River
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Regular
Shady Slim said:
artiro you're a wonderful poster but don't fall into the @cnerd123 trap of the bangla fan who has an each way bet with his teams

(i think i've seen you use the collective noun for aus before as well? i think?)
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Reckon you might be thinking of me referring to the Socceroos as "we" in the World Cup forum.

Otherwise there's only ever been one "we". "We" was referring to Bangladesh doing Mayers' average a lot of favours. West Indies are just my sidechick, except I don't see her that much and she's almost as ugly and consistently disappointing as the wife.
 
TT Boy

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
I remember when Kraigg Brathwaite was in a test squad with Floyd Reifer, Ramon’s uncle. Floyd was the captain; he hadn’t played a test since the 90s, Kraigg was 16 and in the squad after a handful of FC games. Good times.
 
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