West Indies cricket again

Editor: The West Indies cricket team has shown some improvements in their performances and has brought some smiles and hope to its many fans and supporters.While, we are glad for its improvement as a team, the real strength of the team is the bowling. The bowlers, for most part, have been carrying the weight of the team and is largely responsible for its successes thus far.

We should have won the ODI series against New Zealand if the batters had done a better job by putting more runs on the board and giving the bowlers something more to work with. In the fourth match, the bowlers almost gave us a series win, had it not been for an important drop catch. Well, done bowlers!

In the first test match against Pakistan, again it is the bowlers who really and honestly brought success.

Yes, there were some good batting performances in the first inning, but it was really the bowlers in both innings that brought us success. Well, done bowlers!

It is time we look at our batters.Yes, against Sri Lanka we had some good batting performances, but that consistency is lacking and especially against good spinners. Efforts must be made to have improved performances by the batters. One of the ways is to have more first class matches at regional levels in each territory, and also have our batters go on contracts, not in T 20, but in county cricket and even in countries like Australia and India and have them play first class games.