Big Bob takes solace in the off season and considers how coaches both real and imaginary must . . .

Big Bob dissects the Windies series but not in an anachronistic way celebrating the return to calypso cricket so enamoured of yesteryear and despite the lack of interest shown by Brisvegas crowds who stayed away in droves as the actress said to the bishop. (4:32) poison ivy

Big Bob is all over the shop in this episode and he casts his shadow over a range of pertinent topics going forward and backward ranging from AB, Fed Phillis, the Don, David Sincock and more. (4:47)

 Big Bob is back on the horse before the cart with his controversial views on the summer game, backyard cricket, and the stifling atmospheric conditions that surround and threaten to confuse it. (4:05)

Big Bob takes the fly swatter to the gentleman’s game with all its permutational nuance and political undertones that have hitherto remained under the Solomons, hidden and unswept, since Adam was a boy. He is prepared for the consequences but has been ostracised and exiled many times before and holds no fear of of lurking ferrets (5.55)

Big Bob takes solace in the off season and considers how coaches both real and imaginary must continue to reinvent and reassess their innermost doubts and insecurities as they confront the challenges of the season ahead fraught as it is with potential alleged scandals and other worrisome tendencies. (5:17)

Big Bob dips his toe in unfamiliar territory with doggerel concerning the forgotten foot soldiers of the game who shall not be forgotten no more

Big Bob’s not claiming he forecast the outcome in as many words, you make up your own mind, as he foreshadows the vitalness of both remaindering in the moment and uncommon common sense that Trav and Man were on the same page as and proved to be the vital difference as the sun went down on Ahmedabad (4:20)

Big Bob reveals the secret source of Maxwell’s mighty innings (3:34)

Something different on this occasion - the jockey, of course, passed it on to the horse and the horse told Big Bob. (3:53)

While Goodwin saves surfer from drowning other coaches navel gaze and look forward with intrepid trepidation. Big Bob wastes no words in redefining the definition of the type of extreme torpor that coaches must endure in the off season to maintain a healthy work life balance and iron fisted mental leverage as dictated by the vicissitudes of ever fluctuating community standards. (4:50)