FIRST, it was the T20 World Cup, then, before we cricket fans of the Caribbean could recover from being thoroughly crushed as defending champions, the Test cricketers succumbed meekly to the Sri Lankans at Galle.

In the second of a two-Test series, the Caribbean team collapsed to 132 in their second innings to lose by 164 runs.

Hence, WI bowed to their hosts in both matches by appreciable margins, leaving little doubt as to which was the stronger team.

Although the selectors were to be blamed for the T20 downfall, the players themselves have no excuses for losing the series. Their shortcomings as far as batting technique are concerned must be blamed on themselves to a great extent, and the coach.

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I'd apportion some blame to the players but not much.


They're only products of their environment

Now given the WI known weakness versus top quality spin, especially in Asia, each play need to take some responsibility to develop themselves. Greater responsibility is on the CWI to eliminate a widely known "structural deficiency" in our cricket.

It's a wonder that BC Lara and Shiv Chanderpaul were both proficient against spin and we cannot passed down.

Is there board trying to fixed this weakness?

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

This could have been written at anytime over the last 20 years or so.

The rapid replacement of relatively more performing players over the years, with younger half-baked players, has finally becoming our nemesis, we are always in such a haste to revert to younger players, who obviously have not had time to learn proper batting skills. They might make a couple centuries but do not have the consistency or stamina necessary to dominate worldclass bowlers or batsmen consistency. Take a look at Blackwood and Bonner, both were forced due to different reasons to labor for a much longer time before been drafted into the West Indies team, while both still have a long way to go with learning their batting skills but it should be no surprise to anyone as to why they are among WI batsmen dominating the batting aggregate.

In reply to Slipfeeler

What about Kraigg????

Since Chanderpaul retired, has any batsman you've seen looked capable of getting a 40+ test average?

Other than Bravo and possibly Brathwaite, none have convinced me they had the batting attributes to do it.

In reply to WICFan

Well, Brathwaite has been contributing and earning his keep but Bravo was one who promised so much with his enormous talent but sadly fell off the wagon.

In reply to Slipfeeler