Was Jimmy Adams sacked too soon?

[Aritro]

Sherwin Campbell was a terrible, terrible player.

 

[Starfighter]

He was better than all the other openers they tried post Greenidge and Haynes until Gayle came along. I must say it never ceases to astound me how many shocking batsmen WI has gone through since the mid nineties. Guys like Williams and Ganga would have sunk without a trace in earlier eras.

 

[Moss]

He was better than all the other openers they tried post Greenidge and Haynes until Gayle came along. I must say it never ceases to astound me how many shocking batsmen WI has gone through since the mid nineties. Guys like Williams and Ganga would have sunk without a trace in earlier eras.

Yeah mediocre as Campbell was, he was definitely better than the likes of Williams (avg 24 from 31 tests), Simmons (22 from 26 tests) and Griffith (24 from 14 tests). Never realized the fall from Greenidge/Haynes was that big. The guy who possibly got away was Marlon's brother Robert Samuels (37 from 6 tests), wonder what happened to him.

 

[TheJediBrah]

He was better than all the other openers they tried post Greenidge and Haynes until Gayle came along. I must say it never ceases to astound me how many shocking batsmen WI has gone through since the mid nineties. Guys like Williams and Ganga would have sunk without a trace in earlier eras.

Wavell Hinds was alright. Had a ~140 run opening stand with Sherwin on the 2000-01 tour at Sydney. Think he might have moved down and batted a lot at 3 after that though.

Remember his great ODI innings on the 2003 Aus tour to WI as well. 7 match ODI series (remember those days) and he made 2 unbeaten tons in the dead-rubbers in successful chases.

 

[stephen]

As someone brought up in the 80s, that 00 series should have been catharsis but instead it turned out to be sad and pathetic. It was possibly the single worst 5 test series ever played.

We were all expecting the West Indies to recover at some point but it never happened. No new Marshall or Ambrose ever emerged. It was truly not the saddest moment though. That moment came in 2010 when they toured and brought a tall fast bowler who then proceeded to bowl finger spin. I don't know what happened to Benn, but he was that guy who joins the club and you think he's going to give you a fearsome bowler and it turns out he's a finger spinner who bowls flat darts that don't turn.