Our Opinion
It’s difficult not to get fed up with the West Indies cricket team these days. It seems as if the cycle of losses will be never ending.
After three matches of the current series against known chokers South Africa, it is the West Indies who seem deserving of that tag especially after their defeat in the second Twenty20 encounter where inexplicably they failed to score off some 60 of the 120 deliveries.
Perhaps some of the West Indies batsmen might have been tricked into believing that it was a test match that they were playing.
More licks
And the first 50 overs-a-side one-dayer brought more licks to Chris Gayle’s beleaguered team and its die-hard supporters some of whom might have died a thousand times in agony over the team’s performance.
Watching Gayle at the post match press conferences one can see that the accumulation of defeats is beginning to get to him. Perhaps one can look out soon for his resignation.
Return of Brian Lara
Interestingly enough a former player by the name of Brian Charles Lara seems ready to come out of retirement no doubt seduced by the huge sums of money that lesser lights like Keiron Pollard command in the Indian Premier League.
With the West Indies team’s batting in such a dismal state Lara, for all his faults, would be a welcome addition. He, certainly cannot do worse than those who are pretending to carry the legacy of West Indies batsmanship handed down by the late George Headley and others including Sir Garfield Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd and Sir Vivian Richards.
India’s former leg-spin wizard Anil Kumble made some interesting observations about the Indian team in Sunday’s issue of this newspaper.
Underperformers
Kumble felt that issues other than the technical deficiencies of the players were in some way responsible for India’s failure to advance in the recent ICC T20 World Cup tournament held in the Caribbean.
That might be so.
Those in charge of West Indies cricket too must strive to find the reasons (s) for the team’s poor performances and move immediately to rectify it.
The people of the West Indies are not going to rally behind this team forever.
The South Africans might be chokers but the West Indies are underperformers.
