Should the cricket world call it stumps for West Indies cricket?

[slippy888]

West indies still have some hope to recover but sri lanka cricket looks doomed.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

surely someone's knee must've fallen off by now from all this jerking

 

[nzfan]

A thread similarly for SL cricket needs to be made. As much as I love black caps putting on a great show what's going on in the ODIs is disappointing. We got to their total in 9 overs, imagine if we batted first?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Nah, Lanka at least seem to look like they care and their players are much better than the Windies on average.

 

[Slifer]

all the problems with WI cricket and you think swapping one bowler for a batsman will change anything? talk about rearranging deckchairs

Bro, maybe it won't make a difference but they've gone with this combo.for like several straight tests and it hasn't worked. And I'm well aware of the greater problems plaguing wi cricket. If u and your cohorts have better ideas I'm all ears

 

[jonbrooks]

Very interesting to see the majority want WIndies to continue playing. Sadists or masochists? ;-)

 

[honestbharani]

level-headed fans...

 

[smash84]

Very interesting to see the majority want WIndies to continue playing. Sadists or masochists? ;-)

sado-masochists?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Bro, maybe it won't make a difference but they've gone with this combo.for like several straight tests and it hasn't worked. And I'm well aware of the greater problems plaguing wi cricket. If u and your cohorts have better ideas I'm all ears

it hasn't worked because the batsmen aren't scoring runs and the bowlers aren't taking wickets not because it's a bad team structure. It's like saying a house is poorly built because of the colour used to paint it.

 

[TheJediBrah]

this WI team right now will still challenge Pak/NZ/SL/Eng etc. and get the better of it on their good days

Right now Holder and Taylor are bowling seriously well with new ball

 

[smash84]

this WI team right now will still challenge Pak/NZ/SL/Eng etc. and get the better of it on their good days

Right now Holder and Taylor are bowling seriously well with new ball

I am assuming you haven't seen pak/nz/eng play recently

 

[TheJediBrah]

I am assuming you haven't seen pak/nz/eng play recently

yeah seen them all

in fact less than a year ago this WI team drew 1-1 with England in a Test series . . .

and NZ just toured here and while they are still a better Test team than WI, an inform WI will challenge them

 

[NZTailender]

WIndies still took a Test off us when we toured there last, ditto England.

They've got incompetent and stubborn management system which is ruining development and alienating good players to T20 leagues. We don't need to get rid of the West Indies as a team, but the hierarchy that has presided over this ****fest.

 

[BeeGee]

I seem to remember some discussion on this subject before... all by the same bloke... in 2007, 2011 and 2014... I'm looking forward to a new one in about 2017.

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/24315-why-does-cricket-need-strong-west-indies.html

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/51963-who-cares-about-strong-west-indies.html

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/63049-why-does-cricket-need-strong-west-indies.html

 

[Slifer]

....and big surprise he's from RSA

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Australia tend to win comfortably in home conditions against any country that isn't ready or lacking in standard in general. But without countries like West Indies, or Sri Lanka or New Zealand test cricket would lose so much more as far as I'm concerned. I mean watching when Braithwaite took that wicket today the celebration was infectious.
Of course lots of players celebrate with flare after a wicket, but with some countries who have been at low levels, they find joy by more pure means than just success.

 

[91Jmay]

Australia lost 7 tests in a row a couple of years ago, most of which were absolute hammerings..

England got 5-0 whitewashed in two away Ashes out of the last 3

India have turned in some of the worst away performances in Test history.

Playing away from home is hard and when your first class domestic competition is semi professional (at best) and your administrators are incompetent it becomes impossible.

 

[Slifer]

Australia lost 7 tests in a row a couple of years ago, most of which were absolute hammerings..

England got 5-0 whitewashed in two away Ashes out of the last 3

India have turned in some of the worst away performances in Test history.

Playing away from home is hard and when your first class domestic competition is semi professional (at best) and your administrators are incompetent it becomes impossible.

Awta...but calling the wicb incompetent is a bit of a compliment; they are worst than that!!!