West Indies stranglehold continue over England as
they defie distinctly un-Caribbean weather in lone T20
On a chilly night in the North-East, it was England who were caught cold. The West Indies are simply too good, too slick, too well-drilled in this form of the game. For the most part, Twenty20 is what they do for a living, and against an England side of mixed readiness, it showed.
This is no longer a game you can simply dip into and out of like canasta. It is a calling, a lifestyle, a vocation. The era of the T20 specialist was epitomised by the fact that not a single one of the West Indies XI was in their recent Test squad. Man-of-the-match Sunil Narine and captain Carlos Brathwaite were among those players who had flown all the way here just for this match.
This is no longer a game you can simply dip into and out of like canasta. It is a calling, a lifestyle, a vocation. The era of the T20 specialist was epitomised by the fact that not a single one of the West Indies XI was in their recent Test squad. Man-of-the-match Sunil Narine and captain Carlos Brathwaite were among those players who had flown all the way here just for this match.
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