By Tony Cozier
Lockhart Sebastien’s annoyance was typically blunt and utterly justified.
“This is not a curry goat match,” the former Windward Islands opener, now long-standing team manager, fumed after Shivnarine Chanderpaul abandoned his innings for Guyana in the final Carib Beer Cup encounter at Providence last week to attend the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) awards ceremony in Port-of-Spain.
“This is a first-class encounter and things like this are allowed to happen and we wonder why West Indies cricket is in the state that it is in,” he said.
He has been around long enough to know that regional cricket has, indeed, deteriorated into little more than a curry goat tournament.
