Former West Indies fast bowler, Kenny Benjamin said the 2-1 series win by England over West Indies was expected.
“England is ranked number three, they are ranked eight or nine, England is a better team than us, they have better players,” said the former West Indies speedster on the Mason and Guest show recently.
“Let me start by saying we probably expected too much. This team has been the same bunch of players over the years unless they got really better in the last three weeks they were in England, I believe the results went as expected,” he declared.
Benjamin, though, was critical of the players’ failure to make adjustments.
The former pacer lambasted the West Indies batsmen for their inability to adopt and counter the English bowlers.
“We see batters being out the same way by the same bowlers which is suggesting so. Don’t we have a look and see how they are getting us out and make adjustments? So I am wondering don’t we have the ability to change our approach, our style and methods and all of that during a test series? Because I just can’t understand why no change. We see the same dismissals innings after innings and it looks very disorganized and unprepared.”
“Maybe we don’t have the ability to change quickly in terms of going to the nets between time and preparing for the next game,”
Benjamin, however, credited West Indies for their performance in the first Test but ridiculed them for their downward spiral from half way through the second Test.
“We went very well in the first Test, we bowled well in both innings, we batted well and we won the Test match. We were doing well up until halfway of the second test when we were 240 odd for four then we lost four wickets for 18 runs, that was where we lost that test match on the fourth day, if we had batted through England probably wouldn’t have enough time to bat again and give us and we just went downhill from there,” he stated.
