As the dust settles, following the West Indies’ two-nil defeat to South Africa on home soil—the Caribbean side first defeated inside 3 days, then inside 4—the question now lingers as to how fans will contextualize this series defeat. Do we pile it onto what seems like the perpetual decline of West Indies Cricket as just “another loss to add to the long list of losses”? Or, could we perhaps term it as “just Phil Simmons’ third Test series defeat in six tries and only his first with a still-new captain? Not to mention, a batting order of yet so many moving pieces”?
Make no mistake, choosing the latter of the two is in no way an attempt to rob the average Maroon fan of their right to be disappointed, angry, embarrassed, or the lot. Disappointed, angry and embarrassed because in the 16 partnerships among the West Indies top-five, over the course of 4 batting innings during this series, there was a single (1) partnership that exceeded 50 runs.
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