No Smiles This Time Around

Sun, Mar 29, '15

After many years of basking in brilliant sunshine, years in which Jamaica preened themselves in winning title after title under captain Tamar Lambert and on the back of Nikita Miller's bowling, Jamaica's cricket took a beating this time around.

At the end of a nice, long season, and after a promising start, Jamaica finished, not so much out of the running, but almost unrecognisable.

Playing 10 matches, Jamaica won three of the first four, lost five consecutively, drew two, including the last one, and finished in fourth position with 75 points, 73 behind winners Guyana Jaguars.

Finishing fourth out of six teams is not all that bad; after all, it had to rain sometime.

What was disappointing about Jamaica's performance is that it was, more or less, expected.