Time to expand the West Indies talent pool
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What is the statement about West Indies cricket talent?
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This is Kimo Aroach and I listen to the Caribbean Cricket Podcast.
Welcome back to another edition of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. No snazzy intro for this one because I'm trying something new. Look at the high-tech visuals. Look at the cleanness. of the visuals, you've got the palm trees behind me from an undisclosed location in Jamaica. So I wanted to touch on something that we discussed last night on the live call-in show, and it's about the Caribbean diaspora. I know this is a very touchy subject, for some people who follow West Indies cricket, but I felt that I just needed to rewind and come back again to this particular issue. Now, first things first, if you're a long-time supporter, follower of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, you will know that I have addressed this before, and there's an episode from about six months ago where I identified about anywhere between seven, I think it was seven to eight players who currently play their cricket, whether in Australia or the United Kingdom, who I said are
illegible to play for the West Indies and since that episode was recorded I've interviewed different people in the upper echelons of cricket West Indies and said have you ever considered reaching out to the diaspora sorry people I was just checking if this was even recording I can't even tell one second is this even recording I believe it is recording apologies people so and when I spoke to the people in the upper echelons I said to them have you considered reaching out to the diaspora and without This isn't about digging anyone out. This isn't about calling anyone out. But the impression I was given was this was something that hadn't really occurred to people within cricket West Indies or the wider conglomerate that is West Indies cricket.
Now, I understand that for some people within the region, the mere suggestion or notion of reaching out beyond our Caribbean borders to embrace people who, maybe like myself, were born in the Caribbean. So myself, I was born in Jamaica, and then we moved to the UK. So there's plenty of people like myself, for example, who would have been born in the Caribbean, moved abroad, but consider themselves very much sons, daughters of the soil, et cetera. Then there's others whose parents would have moved abroad, whether, again, to the United Kingdom, North America, somewhere else in the world, and they've had children in those countries that they've moved to, and those children by default are also sons and daughters of the soil.
But I understand that some people have a big issue with that, and that they feel that that makes you somehow less Caribbean, and when I say Caribbean, I use that to mean whichever particular country we want to talk about. Now, I'm gonna use Jamaica as an example, because I'm recording this in Jamaica, and I think it's a good example to use, because that's where I am right now. If somebody wants to apply for Jamaican citizenship, one of the criteria that gets you Jamaican citizenship is if your parents were born on the island. So if you live somewhere else in the world but your parents are born on the island, you have a right in the Jamaican constitution to apply for Jamaican citizenship. So my argument immediately to people is, if the constitution of the country gives a right to those in the diaspora to apply for citizenship of the country, how dare we, and I'll include myself in the we there as somebody who's born in this country, how dare we then turn around to those people and say, you aren't from this country?
It doesn't make any sense. In fact, it's unconstitutional to say that they're not from this country, right?
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