Test team against India

[mikesiva]

It now seems certain we're going to lose this Test....

All is not doom and gloom, because we did win the first Test, so the series will end up tied 1-1, which was probably better than we expected before the series started.

But this series raised a lot of questions about the players in the series, and how they will stand up against tougher opposition, which will come next month in the form of India. In this series, the only players who have come thru with any credit are the following:

1) Shiv - batted in the first Test and ended the series with an average of 60-odd.
2) Rampaul - bowled well.
3) Bishoo - good bowling on debut.
4) Sammy - say what you want, he took wickets!

But there are serious question marks over the other performers in the team....

[mapoui]

you are indeed persistent mikeseva but the cricket is a mess man as demonstrated most convincingly by the wickets prepared for the tests.

who cares about westindies? from the groundsmen to the selectors to the president manipulating the team to have his own faves on it?

its a real mess with all hands pulling from the inside out. litle positive is possible in the comes', little true form of the players under dures, aware of the shambles and hardly heartened by it

picking teams and evaluating talent in the circumsatnces is a kind of exercise in futility, a pennance and a self-torture. I know the old days but I dont hinks things were this bad even in 1956-57 when we arrived a previous nadir.

the people, the generation of westindians packed into factory road running the cricket must pass. deh are useless, old, out of sync and incapable of responding to the needs of the day. it makes no more sense allowing seventy+ men from the hoary old days run anything in the westindies anymore..certainly not the cricket.

these men are steeped in traditions that are now counter-productive. they are arrogant old men, convinced of their power and validity, yet the results their policies produce reveals they are ancient and out of tune

[mikesiva]

maps

yes, indeed, I've almost given up hope on West Indies cricket...thank God for Caribbean athletics to bring me joy!

But back to our Test team for India, and looking at this just-concluded series against Paksitan, I think that any batsman who averaged less than Sammy with the bat should consider his place under threat.

How did our batsmen fare?

1) Shiv ave 63
2) Samuels ave 31
3) Lil Bravo ave 27
4) Simmons ave 23
5) Sammy ave 19

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6) Sarwan ave 13
7) Nash ave 11
8) Baugh ave 9
9) Brathwaite ave 7
10) Smith ave 7

Hell, even Roach and Rampaul have been more productive with the bat than those below the line of failure!