ashley bach
International Coach
Fancy having to turn to Marcus Harris for an Ashes series. ''Please Marcus we need you''
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*Official* Australia Tour of West Indies 2025
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govinda indian fan
International Debutant
Alick athanzhe looks much better then carty. Also play hope as batter and give gloves to da silva or imlach.
govinda indian fan
International Debutant
Windes should give chance to amir jangoo. Heard he is good player of spin
the big bambino
Cricketer Of The Year
I know right and you can't rule him out, especially if he tugs a few runs at the start of the season. There might be a glimmer of hope. The bowlers who've tormented him are Bumrah, Broad and Anderson and he won't be facing any of them. You wouldn't like his chances against Archer but that player might be managed over the series so he might not face him all the time.
Gob
International Coach
Pretty straightforward. Get Marnus to open
The idea that Australia can afford to permanently bin someone like him right now is hilarious. Of course I'm going to add the need of a decent score first but he can make that leading up to the Ashes
Molehill
International Coach
I was thinking about this too and assumed Ponting was probably the best to go with those 2.
But I've found one which beats them all, these 3 played 76 Tests together and managed 752 wickets between them.
Murali 504
Vaas 244
Jayawardene 4
The biggest surprise for me was that Mahela took 6 Test wickets (4 whilst playing with these 2).
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Today is his birthday
Kirkut
International Regular
For some reason he has a mental block when bowling against India. His bowling length becomes more short.
Beamer
International Captain
If only.
In all honesty, West Indies have no excuses for failing to groom a single test batter in the last 10-15 odd years. I really don't have time for excuses about money from the ICC (or lack thereof), decline in talent pool, T20 cricket, troubles with local economy, etc. The last time WI had a proper batter was the great Shivnarine Chanderpaul, but WICB being as devious as they were, he was let go without any proper retirement. Since then, there has been a culture of mediocrity, poor accountability, and no seriousness about playing. In addition, I must ask, do the WICB have a bias against most players not from Barbados? I'm sure there is a lot of talent in Guyana, Antigua, St Vincent, St Lucia, Trinidad, etc. that are bewildered about their lack of chances to play, while some utterly pathetic and useless Bajans like Kraigg Brathwaite, Shai Hope, Roston Chase, etc. keep getting picked only to fail.
And for all the talk about the superiority of T20 cricket in the Caribbean, it doesn't look like even that is shining these days. The CPL is mostly played in front of empty grounds many times, and their T20 side is a shadow of the one that mesmerized us in the 2016 WT20. And let's not even talk about their ODI performance.
I feel really sorry for their bowling attack of Shamar, Seales, Alzarri, Greaves, and Philip. These guys could easily make up among the best bowling units in the world, if not for their batters consistently letting them down.
And for all the talk about the superiority of T20 cricket in the Caribbean, it doesn't look like even that is shining these days. The CPL is mostly played in front of empty grounds many times, and their T20 side is a shadow of the one that mesmerized us in the 2016 WT20. And let's not even talk about their ODI performance.
I feel really sorry for their bowling attack of Shamar, Seales, Alzarri, Greaves, and Philip. These guys could easily make up among the best bowling units in the world, if not for their batters consistently letting them down.
Skyliner
International Debutant
‘Cricket West Indies (CWI) has extended invitations to three former players - Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards- to take part in an emergency meeting following West Indies' 3-0 series loss at home to Australia. The West Indies greats will join Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Desmond Haynes and Ian Bradshaw on the Cricket Strategy and Officiating Committee to review the team's "deeply disappointing" performances over the past few weeks.’
Sliferxxxx
State Vice-Captain
White wash for me wasnt unexpected, Australia's bowling is better and batting/fielding much better. And after all, even the best (India) suffered a White wash not too long ago, so it happens. But to be bowled out for Fcking 27???!!! Like wtf??!! Seriously. That's unacceptable.
Shady Slim
International Coach
obviously wi had a shocking batting series and currently have a shocking batting order but come on you guys dismissed big mean australia cheaply in every game, yes flopped with the bat but you’ve got a bowling unit that can do enough to get a win against any team in the world
we bowled out india for 36 and they came back and won the series boys! obviously they had a classier lineup with the bat to rebound with but you have the bowlers to keep rebuilding!
we bowled out india for 36 and they came back and won the series boys! obviously they had a classier lineup with the bat to rebound with but you have the bowlers to keep rebuilding!
Skyliner
International Debutant
India got dismissed for 36 but there were proven test runscorers in that team so it was obvious that that humiliation was an outlier that would be bounced back from. In the case of the Windies batting, there are no proven test runscorers. Roston Chase has been made captain but after 52 tests he is only averaging 25.85 - so is he going to improve from here? After 52 tests you have a pretty good indication of his quality as a test batsman. Shai Hope has played 42 tests and is averaging 24.52, John Campbell has played 23 tests and is averaging 24.85, Mikyle Louis has played 10 tests and is averaging 18.45......these numbers are very poor. Kraigg Brathwaite played 100 tests for an average of 32.51 and has now been dropped.
'Brandon King made West Indies' one half-century of the series - his 75 was also the highest individual score on either side - but no one else, barring Anderson Phillip who played a single match, averaged over 20.
Since February 2023, when Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul each score hundreds in a 336-run stand against Zimbabwe, West Indies have had two centuries: Kavem Hodge against England and Justin Greaves against Bangladesh.
Since the start of 2023, the West Indies, as a venue for Tests, has the lowest collective batting average where more than a single match has been played. West Indies, themselves, average just 18.39 in that period, by far the lowest for a home side.'
'Brandon King made West Indies' one half-century of the series - his 75 was also the highest individual score on either side - but no one else, barring Anderson Phillip who played a single match, averaged over 20.
Since February 2023, when Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul each score hundreds in a 336-run stand against Zimbabwe, West Indies have had two centuries: Kavem Hodge against England and Justin Greaves against Bangladesh.
Since the start of 2023, the West Indies, as a venue for Tests, has the lowest collective batting average where more than a single match has been played. West Indies, themselves, average just 18.39 in that period, by far the lowest for a home side.'
