REGARDLESS of however overwhelming the result, it has become obligatory for captains to speak at post-match presentations of “taking positives out of the game.”
They don’t come much more overwhelming than the West Indies’ crushing loss to South Africa in the first Test in Centurion yesterday – an innings and 220 runs in 243.2 overs, less than the equivalent of three full playing days. It was their third heaviest by an innings in their 501 Tests since the first in 1928.
Even then, Denesh Ramdin followed what has become standard operating procedure in his subsequent comments.
“Hopefully after this game we can refocus and in (the second Test)