Do Jamaican Sports People Have “Bad Luck” In Australia?

January 10, 2016 Guest Author

Look here, I do not for one minute believe that cricketer Chris Gayle “flashed” a woman at the Big Bash tournament in Australia. The “set-up” is so boorish and amateurish, it is hardly worth deliberating on.

Still annoyed at his banter with an Australian journalist about “don’t blush, baby”.

Sometimes we Jamaicans get a bit too comfortable in global spheres and “wrap up too much”.

I allude to the unfortunate circumstances which befell our Jamaican netball star Romelda Aiken. She plays for the Queenland Firebirds and decided in 2014 to “wrap up too much”. Met a man on Instagram, sent a nude photo of herself to him. She became a victim of racist and aggressive cyber attack.

The freak she sent the photo to posted it on various public social media platforms and he began to stalk her.

One Jamaican who seems reluctant to “wrap up too much” with the Aussies is cricketer Marlon Samuels. In 2013, he and and Australian Shane Warne clashed repeatedly in the Big Bash Twenty 20 tournament. To the point where Shane Warne hit him with a cricket bat “by accident”. Samuels kept his cool and threw the bat (not sure if this action was a warning not to get him riled). In the end, Warner was fined 4,500 Australian dollars.

This saga Chris is experiencing serves as a lesson to all Jamaican athletes who compete in global spheres. Nuh badda wid too much of de wrap up and skin teet business like onoo a try ingratiate yuhself wid people. Especially “Down Under” where it seems you would have “bad luck”. .