Comparing two very dismal tours in Windies history
Mon, Nov 16, '15
There have been big headlines for West Indies winning only its final match of that recently concluded, ill-fated, recent tour of Sri Lanka. One wonders as to whether anyone even expected Jason Holder’s Test and One Day International (ODI), or Darren Sammy’s Twenty20 (T20) teams, to win any games at all on that trip?
A better question is: “Why have they failed so badly in Sri Lanka?” Was that a result of poor psychological or physical preparations or both, or perhaps as reported by attendees to games in SL, that some WI players simply did not seem to care?
WI’s 2015 SL tour reminded of that first ever official, similarly ill-fated, WI tour to South Africa in 1998. That tour was also supposed to have held promises for WI’s team then, after SA had emerged from international sporting isolation, India being the first team to play Tests (four) there in modern times in 1992-93.
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