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***Official*** West Indies in Australia 2015/16
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Daemon
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with this and smali's sausage post, we have reached an all time cw humour low
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
I thought this sort of thing was frowned upon ever since Hansie Cronje did it in a test against England
Furball
Evil Scotsman
It was frowned upon when it came out that Cronje had done so at the behest of a bookmaker. Everyone thought it was a magnificent gesture up until that point.
Beamer
International Vice-Captain
Well what an awful tour. Things have gone from bad to worse and I think thats the last 3 test series we will get against a big 3 team for some time. In fairness, I can't really complain about that, we need to re-earn some respect.
Random thoughts and musings on the series:
- Our preparation for the tour was diabolical. Both CA and the WICB are stupid if they think a team like ours can rock up and be competitive with a practice schedule like that. It's time the WICB insisted on real preperation. Our youngsters need all the preparation they can get and it's instructive that our batsmen got significantly better as the tour progressed (still rubbish though obviously).
- Marlon Samuels needs to go. Not only has he stopped scoring test runs but his attitude on the field has been dreadful. Yes we need senior players but only those with good attitudes. I would choose a 40 year old Shiv over Marlon in a heartbeat.
- Kemar Roach and the bowling in general, which had been our strenght in recent times, was incredibly disappointing. Jerome Taylor had a pretty decent year so I'll give him a bit of leeway but Roach is just not the same bowler and he needs to be replaced by Miguel Cummins or someone with a bit of pace and verve. Hopefully Kemar can get some FC cricket under his belt and return to the World Class bowler he can be.
- Warrican looks a handy left arm spinner but he defiitely shouldn't be playing ahead of Bishoo. His selection ahead of Bishoo in the first test was bizarre.
-On the plus side it was good to see Darren Bravo and Kraigg Braithwaite bat so well and Carlos Braithwaite looks a handy addition to the side. The batting lineup for now should be:
Kraigg Braithwaite
Rajendra Chandrika (gets the next series)
Jermaine Blackwood (number 3 for Jamaica, adds more positivity to the top order)
Darren Bravo
Shane Dowrich (should never have been dropped)
Denesh Ramdin
Jason Holder
Carlos Braithwaite
Devendra Bishoo
Jerome Taylor
Miguel Cummins/Jamal Warrican
Obviosuly still a very weak side but there is at least something to build on. Everyone in that side has a good attitude (except possibly Taylor who is a bit lazy) and that is going to be important moving forward.
Finally, if anyone thought we would seriously manufacture a chase for Australia they are just not thinking logically. This team needs to learn how to compete and fight. Losing 3-0 was going to do nothing but further damage confidence and boost Australia's ranking.
Random thoughts and musings on the series:
- Our preparation for the tour was diabolical. Both CA and the WICB are stupid if they think a team like ours can rock up and be competitive with a practice schedule like that. It's time the WICB insisted on real preperation. Our youngsters need all the preparation they can get and it's instructive that our batsmen got significantly better as the tour progressed (still rubbish though obviously).
- Marlon Samuels needs to go. Not only has he stopped scoring test runs but his attitude on the field has been dreadful. Yes we need senior players but only those with good attitudes. I would choose a 40 year old Shiv over Marlon in a heartbeat.
- Kemar Roach and the bowling in general, which had been our strenght in recent times, was incredibly disappointing. Jerome Taylor had a pretty decent year so I'll give him a bit of leeway but Roach is just not the same bowler and he needs to be replaced by Miguel Cummins or someone with a bit of pace and verve. Hopefully Kemar can get some FC cricket under his belt and return to the World Class bowler he can be.
- Warrican looks a handy left arm spinner but he defiitely shouldn't be playing ahead of Bishoo. His selection ahead of Bishoo in the first test was bizarre.
-On the plus side it was good to see Darren Bravo and Kraigg Braithwaite bat so well and Carlos Braithwaite looks a handy addition to the side. The batting lineup for now should be:
Kraigg Braithwaite
Rajendra Chandrika (gets the next series)
Jermaine Blackwood (number 3 for Jamaica, adds more positivity to the top order)
Darren Bravo
Shane Dowrich (should never have been dropped)
Denesh Ramdin
Jason Holder
Carlos Braithwaite
Devendra Bishoo
Jerome Taylor
Miguel Cummins/Jamal Warrican
Obviosuly still a very weak side but there is at least something to build on. Everyone in that side has a good attitude (except possibly Taylor who is a bit lazy) and that is going to be important moving forward.
Finally, if anyone thought we would seriously manufacture a chase for Australia they are just not thinking logically. This team needs to learn how to compete and fight. Losing 3-0 was going to do nothing but further damage confidence and boost Australia's ranking.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Well, you'll get still get 3 test match series at home. Maybe Warrican should bat 4/5. Average of 65!
Beamer
International Vice-Captain
Please don't joke about that as I suspect the only reason Roach played the 3rd test is that his lower order batting had been solid....
Things got that bad.
Spark
Global Moderator
He's not playing BBL ever again.
Spark
Global Moderator
The problem isn't that the BBL clubs won't take him.
Brathwaite
Johnson
Bravo
Fudadin
Blackwood
Dowrich +
Holder *
Brathwaite
Bishoo
Taylor
Gabriel
is my new XI for the WI. Whatever happened to Fudadin? Seemed semi-competent in his limited Test showings, inexplicably got dropped, still makes runs in 4 day cricket but is seemingly nowhere near the side.
Johnson
Bravo
Fudadin
Blackwood
Dowrich +
Holder *
Brathwaite
Bishoo
Taylor
Gabriel
is my new XI for the WI. Whatever happened to Fudadin? Seemed semi-competent in his limited Test showings, inexplicably got dropped, still makes runs in 4 day cricket but is seemingly nowhere near the side.
TNT
Banned
How does that work, the WICB are going to insist to the WICB that they schedule more warm up matches.
cnerd123
likes this
This must be the 5th time I've seen this question in the last few months
Got injured, played domestix but sucked, lost motivation, has taken a sabbatical from the game. Last played FC cricket in April 2014.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Well TBF, why would anyone bother following this shambles.