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The batsmen need to score runs on all types of pitches

Windward made 293 and 71 in the same game. No wkt problem there

Guyana lower order bat better than both Guyana and Trinidad top order.


The Jamaica vs Windward game was a low scoring one but Leeward Island pacers took 20 wkts. That shows that it produced what West Indies is looking for better pace wickets

Now the batsmen need to adjust

In reply to cricketmygame
You talk just because you have access to a computer and know nothing about the game. If the wicket is bad, no one will be able to bat on it. That is the reason a Test match in Jamaica was called off. It was deemed to be dangerous.

In reply to bobby

if West Indies was batting that test match would not have been called off. it would have been great English bowling.

also that was 20 yrs ago

In reply to bobby

as long as I know more than you I am happy

In reply to cricketmygame

Look no way to defend the pitch in Jam.
And no way you should be blaming the bats.
Seeing that 44 batsman batted, 40 of them was dismissed and only 2 of them crossed 30 with the highest score being 47.
374 match aggregate, less than 100 per innings.

Blame batsmen in the other matches but not this one, well you can blame them here too but the pitch has to take most of the blame.

... Source: Jamaica Observer.

... man a run from pace.

no West Indian should ever complain about a pace wicket the same way I do not think Indians and Pakis should complain about spin wkts

that should be our strength

pitches like this should be prepared (under-prepared) more and when foreigners come let it loose on them

In reply to cricketmygame

Get it through your thick head those days are long gone.

We are better with and against spin than pace,

That is the reality and that is how we should focus our attacks when the likes of OZ, ENG, NZ and SA visit us.

Every other nation has better fast bowling stocks than us and are more capable of playing pace than us. Let loose you say, boy allyuh does think before ur talk?

In reply to Andy99

I was going to say you do the opposite...but I'll let this one pass by outside the off stump.

In reply to Courtesy

In reply to Andy99

we have to pick a strategy and run with it

we losing anyway so...

In reply to cricketmygame

Bannas, that used to be the case, not so anymore! That was true at the peak of West Indies dominance!
Since the late 90s - 2000s the wickets in the WI have been playing low and slow and our batsmen have suffered because of it! I'm not sure if you're old enough to remember WI first tour to SA in 1998! WI couldn't handle SA bouncy tracks and their pacers with any comfort! So, its been a long time since pace and bounce have been absent from WI pitches!

In reply to cricketmygame

Thats what I'm saying go with spin vs those non-Asian teams.
Most of them have come here in the recent past and struggled against our spin, we are more used to these slow low wickets use it to our advantage.

Part time/allround spin such as Deo, Chase and MClarke taking 5-fors on recent times shows how dominate spin is in International matches here.
We need to play atleast 2 spinners and an allrounder who bowls spin in most of our home games.

In reply to cricketmygame

There's been times when the opposition come over here and read the conditions better and play 2 spinners but we stick to our 3 pacers and 1 spinner.

Well I guess atleast its better than the majority of the 2000's where no matter what it was shitprong 4prong.

In reply to Andy99

west indies last two test wins if I remember correctly (pakistan and england) are on pace wkts which also helped our spinners because of the sharp turn and bounce

In reply to StumpCam

Spot on

In reply to StumpCam

Pace is missing but that doesn't mean we cannot have it again