BANGLADESH completed the demolition job over the West Indies cricket team in the three-match ODI series on Saturday, sweeping the hosts. WI lost all three games comprehensively. Their best effort was in the final game which they lost by four wickets.

The first two games were a disaster. WI were made to look like novices. Thankfully, being victorious in the preceding Test series by winning both Tests, plus, crushing them in the T20’s two-nil, one no result, helped soothe the wounds suffered afterwards. But still, following that fine earlier performance, it did come as quite a shocker.

THE PITCHES

The first issue that has to be dealt with is the state of pitches that were presented for the three 50-over International games.

The pitches for all three games would have been unacceptable for a club game let alone an international. It was embarrassing to insult the visitors by offering such an abominable surface on which to engage in a fair contest to produce a true winner. This is not to take any credit away from the Bangladeshis as they adjusted to the conditions better than their hosts; being accustomed to playing on slow-turning wickets at home. Although, on their pitches, the bounce is even, while the turn is less.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com


No embarrassment for Bangladesh if you ask me. They produce these ridiculously skewed pitches to visitors. So WI were the butt of the joke.

This does highlight other bigger issues:

1 How benign our spinners were in these same conditions.

2 Inability of our batters to cope with Bangladeshi spinners.

3 We seldom look to press home advantage as far as conditions are concerned - outrageous.

In short, we never competed.

Instead of blowing a gasket over mother nature's pitches, why don't allyuh channelled your frustrations over Skillet's CWI hiring of these two-bit Coaches?

They lack the smarts to iron out the young bowlers' and Batsmen' kinks for tests and ODI cricket.

In reply to TheTrail

How can you straighten out a bent tree?

One must start when the seeds start emerging from the soil.

Not when it's 15 years old. Any Arborist will prune the tree and hope for the best.
Its flaws cannot be corrected.

So is it still the two-bit coach's fault?

In reply to sgtdjones

Bryan Davis fraid to publicly call out Big bell Simmons by name....he is the head coach...now de skunt has delegated interviews to the other big belly one

In reply to Narper

Narps

The whole cricket west Indies system is flawed.

For over two decades we have seen it degrading..
The whole bunch should be replaced, then again where can we get replacements.

CWI has failed the Caribbean.