When the West Indies travel to Australia...

[Prince EWS]

Gayle, Sarwan and Chanderpaul are all high quality players. Then they have quite a few decent to good players in Bravo, Nash, Edwards and Taylor.

After that the talent more or less drops at a rather radical rate.

I wouldn't really call Sarwan or Gayle "high quality". They are Test standard batsmen - good players - but they aren't really any more than that. I actually rate Taylor's bowling ahead of Gayle's batting ITBT, and about on par with Sarwan's.

 

[shivfan]

Their first team is crap anyway.

The first team was good enough to beat England 1-0 in a five-Test series in the Caribbean....

That said, it's quite another matter to play Australia in Australia, and I would just be happy if the Windies could avoid another whitewash Down Under. A 2-0 series loss to Australia would be an improvement, IMHO.

 

[four_or_six]

The first team was good enough to beat England 1-0 in a five-Test series in the Caribbean....

That said, it's quite another matter to play Australia in Australia, and I would just be happy if the Windies could avoid another whitewash Down Under. A 2-0 series loss to Australia would be an improvement, IMHO.

Hmmmm

 

[shivfan]

Hmmmm

Well, strictly speaking, I am right, aren't I?

 

[howardj]

I can exclusively reveal that all outstanding matters have been resolved and the West Indies will be sending their full strength team.

 

[Uppercut]

Their first team is crap anyway.

Haha, crudely put, but pretty true. It seems to be forgotten in all of this that even if their first team does go, it's still not likely to be a contest.

 

[roseboy64]

I can exclusively reveal that all outstanding matters have been resolved and the West Indies will be sending their full strength team.

Not true. Two issues unresolved.

 

[roseboy64]

Haha, crudely put, but pretty true. It seems to be forgotten in all of this that even if their first team does go, it's still not likely to be a contest.

The team that was gonna be ranked 6 in Tests but for a disaster against Bangladesh?

Re: Your agreement.

They've managed to make it contests against every team from since the series in South Africa to the home series against England but with quite a few of them not playing cricket for a while and only having a week long domestic OD tournament, who knows....

 

[AaronK]

well more update here

West Indies closer to peace deal | West Indies Cricket News | Cricinfo.com

lets hope we get to say Gayle, Bravo and Shevi once again..

 

[shivfan]

Not true. Two issues unresolved.

Yeah, this thing could still blow up again next year, if they're not resolved....

So far, the sticking plaster should just about hold the team together for the Australia tour.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha, crudely put, but pretty true. It seems to be forgotten in all of this that even if their first team does go, it's still not likely to be a contest.

Yeah, there seems to be a line of thought in Australia that if the West Indies send their best team, it'll actually be a good series. Now, the full-strength West Indies team is Test standard, but it's nothing more than that.

 

[Xuhaib]

Yeah, there seems to be a line of thought in Australia that if the West Indies send their best team, it'll actually be a good series. Now, the full-strength West Indies team is Test standard, but it's nothing more than that.

how many sides can win in Austrialia even now when they have gone down a bit apart from SA?

Maybe India but that too is a long shot.

 

[Uppercut]

The team that was gonna be ranked 6 in Tests but for a disaster against Bangladesh?

Re: Your agreement.

They've managed to make it contests against every team from since the series in South Africa to the home series against England but with quite a few of them not playing cricket for a while and only having a week long domestic OD tournament, who knows....

Depends what you mean by a contest. The West Indies weren't dominated from the first session to the last against Australia, but the Aussies did take two of the tests fairly comfortably and were the only team that was going to win the other. That's with the West Indies at home.

The talented pace attack might rattle the Aussie top order once or twice, Shiv might bat for hours and draw a game, and I don't expect the West Indies to be owned in every session of every game. If that's what you mean by "make a contest", then yes, I'd be surprised if they didn't. If you think they're going to make a serious challenge at winning the series in Australia, I'd say it's very unlikely. They've lost about one home series in what seems like forever.

I suspect you'll go much like New Zealand did when they toured last year. Play some good cricket and make the Aussies sweat, before ultimately losing quite comfortably. Australia are far, far better, particularly at home, and the better team usually wins.

 

[stephen]

Depends what you mean by a contest. The West Indies weren't dominated from the first session to the last against Australia, but the Aussies did take two of the tests fairly comfortably and were the only team that was going to win the other. That's with the West Indies at home.

The talented pace attack might rattle the Aussie top order once or twice, Shiv might bat for hours and draw a game, and I don't expect the West Indies to be owned in every session of every game. If that's what you mean by "make a contest", then yes, I'd be surprised if they didn't. If you think they're going to make a serious challenge at winning the series in Australia, I'd say it's very unlikely. They've lost about one home series in what seems like forever.

I suspect you'll go much like New Zealand did when they toured last year. Play some good cricket and make the Aussies sweat, before ultimately losing quite comfortably. Australia are far, far better, particularly at home, and the better team usually wins.

92/93, 08/09 and hoping the next one is 24/25.

 

[Richard]

Haha, crudely put, but pretty true. It seems to be forgotten in all of this that even if their first team does go, it's still not likely to be a contest.

It's likely to be a good Test team against a not-especially-outstanding Test team - which is a hell of a lot better than a good Test team against a team not good enough to be playing Tests. One is worthwhile; the other is not.

 

[roseboy64]

Depends what you mean by a contest. The West Indies weren't dominated from the first session to the last against Australia, but the Aussies did take two of the tests fairly comfortably and were the only team that was going to win the other. That's with the West Indies at home.

The talented pace attack might rattle the Aussie top order once or twice, Shiv might bat for hours and draw a game, and I don't expect the West Indies to be owned in every session of every game. If that's what you mean by "make a contest", then yes, I'd be surprised if they didn't. If you think they're going to make a serious challenge at winning the series in Australia, I'd say it's very unlikely. They've lost about one home series in what seems like forever.

I suspect you'll go much like New Zealand did when they toured last year. Play some good cricket and make the Aussies sweat, before ultimately losing quite comfortably. Australia are far, far better, particularly at home, and the better team usually wins.

What I meant. Not sure about them winning quite comfortably though.

 

[Uppercut]

I'm interested to see what attitude they take into the series after their prank-performances in England. Like the look of Kemar Roach, the one big plus from all the bollocks of the past few months.

 

[Isura]

Just the Winides. India host Sri Lanka, New Zealand face Pakistan, England is in South Africa and Bangladesh play Zimbabwe.

Is the India/SL series still on? What are the dates/schedule? It's not listed on cricinfo.