Windies cricketers need more steel

West Indies versus Sri Lanka’s first Test at wonderfully reconstructed Galle Stadium, one of many important Sri Lankan venues, totally devastated by that terrible tsunami on Boxing Day (December 26, 2004), which killed at least 250,000 people, one of the ‘top ten’ of all-time natural disasters, has produced a study in steely attitudes and massive recoveries akin to Lankan Tigers.

Steel, despite its widely varied usefulness, is not one of the specific “Periodic Table of Elements”, that table which is so essential to chemistry, physics and wealth, even construction. Instead, steel is a combination “alloy” of elements in that table, mostly iron (Fe – Atomic No 26) and carbon (C – Atomic No 6), with other original trace elements from that “PTE” thrown in.

Thus, steel is extremely hard, strong, and particularly tensile, with great flexibility and stretch ability, all characteristics that that wonderful allow(sic) should share with cricketers.

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