When adversity turned to advantage

By Cosmo Hamilton

By Cosmo Hamilton

With a focused, feisty, furious skipper Dwayne Bravo literally leading from the front, a typically unpredictable West Indies team turned a dire situation into a hearty triumph as they fashioned one of their more convincing limited over victories in recent times, winning by 124 runs against a likely over-confident world champion India team in the town of Kochi, nestled just beyond the verdant hills of Kerala in beautiful south India on Wednesday.

Many of the faithful back home in the Caribbean went to bed on the night of October 7 with heavy hearts having been blind-sided several hours before with the news of a full-fledged labour dispute between the West Indies team just fully assembled for an important tour of India on the one side and the leadership of the West Indies Players Association