The greatest rivalry never played

Fri, Dec 12, '14

The fact that West Indies have actually taken a full-strength team to South Africa is both reassuring and confusing.

Coming off the events of the abandoned India tour, it seemed almost certain a repeat of the events of the 2009 home series versus Bangladesh would occur and a second-string team would be sent to South Africa. Also, despite intervention from the CARICOM political leaders, India's US$42 million threat loomed large, ready to cripple the West Indies board's finances catastrophically.


Talk of the West Indies team being disbanded like the former football nations of USSR and Yugoslavia was gaining serious traction from Jamaica in the north to Guyana in the south.

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