In 1999 BC Pires said WI cricket barely had a pu

He wrote this a week after the SA beat down and two weeks before the start of that year’s historic Fran Worrell Trophy. We still had three great players in that side. I wonder what he’d have written about 27 all out and 83 all out without a great player anywhere near the set up in any format

In 1999, we had the best batsman in the world, and two of the best fast bowlers going around.

Then we had Shiv.

Adams and Jacob’s were decent in their own right.

This team today would struggle to get to 27 against the 1999 team, or struggle to pick up 5 wickets against them. Lara and Shiv alone would bat days while these guys be chasing leather