by sussexpob » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:21 am
Kind of ironic that last month there was positivity about the future, and now Windies get blasted by the best team in the world and everyone wants to talk about how bad they are again.
This series was always going to be about taking away positives, and there have been positives with the ball for the windies. They cant keep on accepting mediocrity from the likes of Ramdin though, a team with a brittle batting line up cant afford a specialist keeper, one who isn't even that good. He must be one of the most fortune players in history to have played so often and captained a side despite looking to be of the quality.
I hazard a guess that condition of pitches makes batting difficult in the Caribbean, they seem to either be pitches that are terrible to score on, or pitches that you expect to score 700 on and draw. Those conditions don't make players with good technique stand out, you either have top orders copping unplayable balls, or players who are bad scoring mega runs on dead pitches despite their lack of technique.
If you play the majority of cricket on surfaces that favour bowlers, you are also not having players play in a way that they are setting up to score big scores. They probably either think "time to be aggressive" and try and score too quickly because they know they are getting on with their name on it, or they play normally and do get one with their name on it.
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