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Is like watching paint dry

4! Did alyuh see Badree with a Dominica hat?!

Paint dry and goneeeee !

There was a class between the defense session and attacking sessions...most west indies batters skip.

Clipping, placing the ball to get singles.

Aren’t these “proper batsmen” who regularly play red ball cricket, grounded in sound cricket fundamentals including turning the strike over, and know how to build an innings?

In reply to imusic

Where and when? We don't have good clubs nor a competitive FC tourney anymore.
Mediocre playing mediocre will never produce competition. Some flashes in the pan yes but not true and real consistent competition

Losing wickets and not scoring...recipe for disaster

Doosie……come een

poke poke poke...get out

In reply to ray

Dem playing a game of survival.

This bunch should not br judged on scores. Management need to give them the freedom to express themselves. The measure should be whether the applyvthr right technique to each delivery, generally.

Athanaze and Hodge did that as far as i saw yesterday.

Be more positive in strokeplay

In reply to InHindsight

Express themselves?

Nah man. They supposed to consolidate. Be watchful. Take the shine off the ball. Leave alone. Build an innings

In reply to imusic



dem man making blackwood look like gold with all his batting flaws

In reply to InHindsight

And Bonner

Interestingly, based on what has transpired so far, the best West Indian batsmen on show are Louis, Hodge, and Athanaze.

And I talkin about how they shape up. Not production…..yet anyway

In reply to imusic

My issue so far with Louis is that the yute trying to look too pretty. It's well understood now that he has some ability.

But agree about Hodge and Anthanze

They get bogged down...which leads to pressure

How many matches you going give athnaze to find himself 6 matches without a half century. I have not seen anything in louis so far but lead feet even brathwaith moves his feet more than him

In reply to imusic

Building an innings !!!

In reply to Halliwell

Ah waiting on mi fren Doosie to weigh een

In reply to velo

Drop him and bring in onna your hommies waiting in the wings

In reply to InHindsight

Iim not calling for anyone unlike some people here who just want to see some people from their own territory it is the same thing every year some guys get some runs in a weak fc tournament and wunna hyping them up .

Listen we are a very weak, flash-in-the pan team. When Tendulkar was retiring India invited the WI bunnies so he would be under no bowling threat and he could go out in style. When Baz and Stokes approached Anderson and told him it was time to retire, they reminded him that he would go out in glory as it was the worse batting side in the world. Their only mistake was in picking a hungry fast bowler on debut. He was not supposed to take 7 wickets but he spoilt the retirement party. But Andeson has taken and will take 2nd innings wicket.
I am.not sure if we have any talent but what I am sure of is that they are not prepared to do the hard work 24/7 like Shiv and Kohli and they definitely lack brains.
Outside of the batting none of our bowlers can bowl 2 good balls in an over. How is that acceptable? Is there a bowling coach? Do they listen?

In reply to bobby

The bowling coach’s nickname is “WILD THING”…what do you expect?

We should nothing to say about our bowlers/bowling when we cannot put 200 plus runs on the score sheet. You scoring 121 runs and 79 fi 6 and placing blame on bowling?? At out best, teams have put up scores against us, but we knew, back then, that we had a formidable batting lineup to back the bowlers.

Yes, the bowlers, can be better with their consistency, but the ELEPHANT in the room is the WEST INDIES batting attack or lack thereof.

In reply to Bamboocane

Cricket is about batting, bowling, fielding and taking catches.

In reply to ray


We suck

That is all

Glorious dot ball cricket!

Wheelchairs creeking in anticipation of the next one.

In reply to ray
Hard to process

Its difficult and in many ways grossly unfair to criticize the players on the field of play. They are not totally blameless in
themselves , but they are the easy targets for all and sundry to criticize. Lara and Shiv, each with their vastly contrasting styles , are testament that these islands can still produce bad mind cricketing prodigy /talent. It is still possible for the individual player to tie their laces , buckle
up and make it happen.

My criticism will always be mainly leveled at the administration level....'fish rots at the head' and over the decades Cricket WI has been a whale of a fish.

In reply to johndom90

rotating strike is very basic, puts some pressure on the bowling and fielding...unless they don't teach them how to do that

In reply to ray

Well when you play on shitty pitches against players from a broken system the basics aren't really basics!!!

I mean WI literally picked Kirk after one good innings and Louis after 1 decent FC season and expected them to just learn on the job!!!

It's going to take a miracle for WI to get better at the International level!!!