There might be little sense in writing this, but I’ll write it anyway. No one really needs to read it, but they still should. It’s on the West Indies’ coming tour of India, and we know what the outcome will be: given enough play West Indies will lose both Tests and likely lose them badly.
Therefore, there need not be any deep analysis of playing conditions -- India wins regardless. And there need not be any evaluation of personnel chosen to make the trip -- it really doesn’t matter who is picked.
It doesn’t matter because there is no combination of players available to the West Indies that will cause India undue alarm. India will simply be too good for the tourists, especially since they’ll be operating in their own conditions.
The West Indies’ last Test outing saw them at one of their lowest ebbs, dismissed for 27 by Australia in Jamaica, their smallest total ever. As humiliating as it was, however, it was not all that surprising to those paying close attention as we have witnessed the deterioration over time. Twenty-seven all out is a marker, of sorts, but we do not know if it’s the region’s nethermost point, since there is nothing to stop it from going lower still.