West Indies Cricket Fans

102 for 10 in 47.1 overs! hmmmmmm

the malaise is now total!

Sarwan is emotionally spent..gets injured all the time...jaded he appears to be not interested any more!

shive appears to have entered his downslope at 36 in 2 months.

the responsibility of being 60% of the batting as well as captain seems to be too much for gayle..

the real pace is injured and off the field now for a very long time now!

things are at a very low ebb for the westindies. there are no replacement batsmen who can deal with international bowling. while the spnners are coming throught the pace is iffy.

the wiketkeeping is in reasonable hands but the batting from the keeping is not up to scratch.

where does the westindies turn now?

I look back a line of administrators whom I would like to arrest and try for treason to the regional nation in ofrmation. from Peter Short to Rosseau, Teddy Griffith, Wes hall, Ledder face Gordon and now skunt Hunte...all together dont even make a heap of a waste of time.

build your house while the sun shines so you can have shelter when the rain comes. major lesson westindies refused to inculcate in time. we have paid and paid and paid for that shortsightgedness. it looks however, that the penalty has really only just begun

I was particularly disappointed in the batting of both Shiv and Nash in this match....

They built their reputation on patient, grinding batting, which is what was needed on this pitch. Instead, Nash goes for the ball, swinging the bat at it. And Shiv uncharacteristically lost his concentration.

its hard for me to be hard on shive after all he has been through. shive has been gridning it out for well nigh 20 years now. he is only a lil' feller, hardly the most massive concentration of physical capabiolity in the world. I mean how much can he take..or give?

nash seemed to think that promotiom to #3 required him to morph into Rohan Kanhai.

or sometime when a man is asked to do something he know he cant. overwhelmed he flails and flays about in futility!

Bravo is the man they should move up and down the order when it is necessary. of the lot Bravo has demonstrted in his career the best level of utility.

Bravo was open bat for titty and general batsman before he focused on all-rounder for the westindies. and he has already done the same for the westindies with decent results.

it would even have been better to open with Ramdin rather than Dowlin. Ramdin might have scratched around for an hour, 10-25 runs and that would have been pretty decent,,,,relative to what Dowlin gave both times combined

and given what Richards had accomplished in the ODI, the definite greater competence he displayed agains the Saffie pace it made far more sense to selct him over Dowlin. but the wicb is anxious to reward loyalty and brown-nosing rather than competence. so it was dowlin and not richards.

if they could have gotten away with it floyd reifer would be captain and batsman in the side...at all of 38.

if Barath is not ready then richards should be brought in on the the strength of what he did in the ODI against saffie bowling. if Sarwan is ready again then #3 is solved and hopefully he is re-energised!

under no circumstances at all must nash be removed from #6. thats it for him and he knows it! gayle did not so he sent him up and stayed with him. I hope they stay with narsingh. give him a chance to battle with the Saffie pace. he seems to be having some probelms with it.

so the next test should be: Gayle, Barath (Richards) Sarwan (lil Bravo) Shive, Narsing, Nash, Ramdin and the 4 bowlers.

Rampaul is the man that is pissing me off. I have no idea what he is striving for or trying to do but all that is required of him is to settle down and bowl at his best and accordding to the circumstances. line and length, consistentcy, shutting batsmen down if you cant terorise them out.

and once you setlle down as a test bowler with some success you start probing away with the things you know best and are working on...swing - in and out....a dangerous sooprize bouncer that you can slip in now and them that really shakes up a batsman.... along with yorkers of all kinds, slow, faster, slower, in-swinging, diping yorkers...also huge breakbacks that can bowl a batsman shouldering arms...and in the fullness of time your actual reverse swing,...if he cant already reverse swing the old ball.

its no dam mystery...I cant for the life of me see why Rampaul is making it so blasted hard.

on his way up Rampaul was a wicket-taker extrardinaire. it seems he has lost that flair completely.

well all he has to do is settle down and bowl like he used to..focus to bowl good balls, all 6 every over. once he does that he will take some wickets, shut the batsmen down and cement a place, and all else will follow, all the great balls he will have the time to produce. in fact with success and a stable place they will come easy.

all Rampaul has to do is to win that place now with this opportunity!

Where Does the Westindies Go From here?

they could settle at the bottom or work they way upwards..