The Westindies Team Without the Seniors
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:59 pm
Probably:
devon smith, barath, lil bravo, samuels, sknash, any of a number of posibilities, baugh, sammy, bishoo, roach, edwards.
how consistently can such a line-up put 200+ on the tins?
not very as far as I see!
the paks will open with a spinner and see-off smith rather quickly. barath if he morphs back into the hungry and ambitious kid may last. he can deal with wat the paks can throw at him if he re-steeles and dsciplines himself.
Bravo has been figured out. he must now settle and respond, see the tactics used against him and defeat them.
can samuels blossom into a 40 average batsman at 30, after 10 years of mediocrity? unlikely but not impossible for this latter day hoops.
snares is not a batsman who has proven he can deal consistently with good bowling on pitches that gives bowlers a chance. well he will have to deal with Pak spin, pace and reverse swing at all points of his innings.
and who will the newbie be? Edwards, Brathwaite? or will it be an old-bie..Hinds or Ganga in top form..even Fletcher, also in good form?
from #6 things go downhill until it stops at Roach..and edwards if he is back.
baugh to me is a joke. sammy represents 0 so westindies start with 10 men if he plays. bishoo is good but inexperienced.
Pak will score powerfully against this bowling..and run through westindies batting
devon smith, barath, lil bravo, samuels, sknash, any of a number of posibilities, baugh, sammy, bishoo, roach, edwards.
how consistently can such a line-up put 200+ on the tins?
not very as far as I see!
the paks will open with a spinner and see-off smith rather quickly. barath if he morphs back into the hungry and ambitious kid may last. he can deal with wat the paks can throw at him if he re-steeles and dsciplines himself.
Bravo has been figured out. he must now settle and respond, see the tactics used against him and defeat them.
can samuels blossom into a 40 average batsman at 30, after 10 years of mediocrity? unlikely but not impossible for this latter day hoops.
snares is not a batsman who has proven he can deal consistently with good bowling on pitches that gives bowlers a chance. well he will have to deal with Pak spin, pace and reverse swing at all points of his innings.
and who will the newbie be? Edwards, Brathwaite? or will it be an old-bie..Hinds or Ganga in top form..even Fletcher, also in good form?
from #6 things go downhill until it stops at Roach..and edwards if he is back.
baugh to me is a joke. sammy represents 0 so westindies start with 10 men if he plays. bishoo is good but inexperienced.
Pak will score powerfully against this bowling..and run through westindies batting
, firstly the only seniors who may have been "dropped" thus far are SHIV AND SARS, No-one has suggested that Gayle won't be in the Test team, also Dwayne Bravo is back now and will be in the team, therefore my starting line-up would be..
, would i leave Sars out of the Test squad? nope and i'm hopeful he won't be but it's time to try some new things now, the status quo are boring.
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