5th ODI: West Indies v Australia @ Gros Islet

[Arnik]

Damn, if only DB had given us a few runs

[DMan]

....and we lost. Sammy's 84 in vain.

[BallOil]

Game over...Aus win by 30 runs... Good fightback West Indies!

Series 2-2...

[DMan]

I hate drawn series. They might as well give the trophy to the visitors.

[mikesiva]

Once again, the bottom half batted better than the top half....

[Arnik]

I did not even realize that Brett Lee started with 3 maidens.

Excellent bowling that set WI back.

[mapoui]

Once again, the bottom half batted better than the top half....

our ODI team up top was dysfunctional..indeed the whole team resultingly was dysfunctional..too few batsmen and too many allrounders.

and the batsmen were out of place...Sammuels..and incompetent Charles and awful Powell.

shive shud have been asked to come back and open, locking down one spot. maybe charles but Barath when he was ready.

and not sammuels at 3 but Fudadin. that bwoy deserved a chance. Bravo at 4 would have been better protected and might have scored coming in a couple of times with runs on the boards

with those 4 up front, then sammuels at 5. samuels would have been much more useful and productive at 5. Pollard at 6, Big Bravo, Sammy, keeper, narine and Roach..Russell sits..or big Bravo sits.

now thats a team with 6 proper batsmen, in their right positons..then the bowlers. you have 4 bowlers and 10 overs to share among samuels and Pollard

[Arnik]

Once again, the bottom half batted better than the top half....

Yes the bottom half was much much better than the top.

Good effort considering that the WI got nothing from #3 and #4. At least #4 contributed with the ball!!

[AFRO]

Whats interesting is for the first time in the series Narine went for 50 runs, but in the four games prior the most runs he allowed off of his bowling was mainly in the mid 20s (only one was 32), while the other bowlers were way more expensive but done their job by taking wickets, today Australia effectively got 30 more runs off of our best bowler and in the end it was the deciding factor, i'm certainly not blaming Sunil for the defeat though, he was brilliant for us and it just shows how important he is already when the very moment he goes for some runs we lose,

As for the team, i'm proud of them and i hope this is the start of big things to come, add Gayle to the top order and we'll be laughing, i also think Deonarine or Bonner should replace Samuels, both talented batters (Deo more so of course) who can bowl spin, Marlon just hasn't done it for us lately,

Our lower order is quite frankly the best in the world, so one can only imagine what type of scores we'll be putting up once our top order is decent and settled , Darren Bravo's position in the one day team needs looking at imo, he's our best batting prospect without question, so we need to protect him, if he's not putting up the numbers then leave him out, it's that simple, with more experience though i'm sure he'll get used to the shorter forms of the game.

[mapoui]

Our lower order is quite frankly the best in the world, so one can only imagine what type of scores we'll be putting up once our top order is decent and settled

yu keep sifting through dross for golden nuggets, exaggerating them, walking away satisfied as if something was achieved when it was in fact a complete and unnecessary failure.

if sammy knew that he had to bat, yet take an unnecessary question of 'what to do if he won the toss' to a team meeting, facilitating debate on a issue to which the answer was obvious..he is just as much to blame as if he won the toss and sent the oppostion in on his own.

that would be then a perfect example of how too much talk about an issue that was clear as daylight, leads to wrong decision and negative consequences.

westindies lost this game by
poor team selection,
poor batting order
sending in the oppostion in the best batting conditions of the series: clear bright day, fast green outfield, short boundaries.
refusal to learn from experience and persisting in the face of the obvious, especially with sammules batting at number 3.
the Oz, realisng their good fortune, went out hard to capitalise and they did with a powerful opening stand..almost inevitable in the condtions. 250 was enuff. 30 runs beyond that, a certainty beyond westindies batting capability in a run chase
silly reasoning from westindies brain-trust that has proven incapable of functioning realistically.. for it does not take into consideration the real capabilities of the team they select, and expect more than the team is capable of at all . they therefore make decision that put that very team under greater pressure even that the reality of it, ensuring that even good luck cannot overcome the roadblocks we place in front of ourselves