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Marlon Samuels will not be seen in West Indies colours for at least two years
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Jamaica Gleaner has carried an editorial about the disgraced Marlon Samuels, who has been banned for two years for giving team news to an Indian bookmaker.
For all his talent, Marlon Samuels remains a boy-man; someone who remains arrogantly juvenile, seemingly incapable of either understanding or coming to terms with his own talent. In that regard, he may mirror an image of a generation of politically and culturally estranged West Indians, about whom social scientists ponder so much. For this group, talent is a personal asset, a mere gift possessed by minstrels.
Jamaicans, unwittingly, perhaps, abetted in arresting Samuels' development. We not only forgave his many alleged disciplinary indiscretions, but usually cast any accuser in the role of villain.
