Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
He's had spells where he has - most notably in the Lord's Test (during which he did take a couple). He's also had spells where he's been as bad as the rest.
Collymore, too, has had some pretty decent spells.
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***Official** West Indies in England***
- Thread starter GIMH
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Collymore, too, has had some pretty decent spells.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Very good call.
Incidentally, I was chatting with someone the other day as to whether this is the worst WI side ever to tour England. We figured the 1928 side had better bowlers, but probably a weaker batting lineup. Thoughts, anyone?
Xuhaib
International Coach
The worst side (barring Zim and BD) since Packer weakened Pakistan in 78.
completely true TBH..it is quite woeful. I remember exactly one year ago...WI had just come off a one day series victory against india; 4-1....everyone was talking abt a huge west indian recovery in terms of cricket...and after a yr now...they are back to square one. Its quite sad!
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
The worst thing is, they'll win the ODI series and everything will be okay for another year...
quite possible actually...and ur right...it will be like evrything is okay again. But..i don see them win the ODI series TBH...they too require some sort of skill TBH and the team actually has to be good.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Well, given that England have not-much skill and a not-good ODI team... I can see WI winning it, TBH.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
The early West Indies attacks weren't much worse than some of their legendary ones. In George Francis, Martindale, Constantine and Herman Griffith they had four top-line seamers. Headley, of course, did not play until 1930 and before him there were few batsmen of note.
A strong bowling line-up, though, limits the damage as even if you're being bowled-out for stupidly low totals and losing by an innings (if you bat first), at least you aren't being ground into the ground by having massive totals piled-up next to you.
In any case, West Indies' current batting sans-Chanderpaul (and to a lesser extent Sarwan) is hardly flash either.
Poor Aussies.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Only getting the highlights then?
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Gutted. AFAIK I should be able to watch all 5 days.
pasag
RTDAS
Nah, not even.
whats the point of starting on day 4...thats just stupid and even more so if there are no highlights to offer as well.
pasag
RTDAS
The last two days are better than nothing if it gets that far I guess. Might have something to do with Rugby and the French Open, but yeah it's completely dire. And I get the pay TV just for the cricket, I don't use it for anything else and now they don't even show much of that anymore. And there is no legal other way to get it either.
alternative
Cricket Web Content Updater
So dire i swear. Bloody annoying to say the least. Are we expected to see any cricket this winter at all on Foxtel that is?