By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira)
So India has yet again comprehensively defeated the West Indies in an ODI Series. This shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise to anyone as that has now been the trend for almost a decade and a half. What would have been distasteful to all West Indies cricket fans and followers, however, were the colossal margins of defeat in each of the three matches played. India won the first match by six wickets and the second by 44 runs. India’s 98-run victory margin in the final match of the series was the widest of all three.
The West Indies’ abject failure to provide India with anything more than the meekest of opposition during the series, can now be blamed, almost entirely, on the failure of its batting unit to register competitive scores in any of the three matches. The bowlers were also, however, guilty on occasion of serving up a fair share of boundary balls, as well as bowling too many wides.