Well it is official now... the West Indies is out of the 2007 World Cup. They still have two games to play, but even if they win those games in glory they are still out of it! Everyone is saying that the team needs to be filtered and new blood needs to be brought in. I would also say that the same needs to be done with the selectors.
The West Indies redeemed themselves in a game against Bangladesh BUT:
1. Too little too late.
2. The West Indies started out terribly and it was ONLY because Bangladesh was playing bad did they have a chance.
3. Sarwan played a nice 91 - too bad he did not get a chance to make a century.
Today I am watching the last match of the World Cup, the same match that Brian Lara says will be his last International Match, and I am looking at Gayle and Smith smashing balls all over the place as though they have become invigorated because Lara is leaving?
The war the Windies won
It took only one Test for England to realise that they were not going to run over the West Indies as a soft prelude to doing "Ashes" battle with Australia. In fact, after the decisive West Indian victory in that first Test in Jamaica, English captain Andrew Strauss was forced to concede that his men were up against "a very good" team. Ref. Source 3
For the sake of Windies cricket
We would be surprised if most West Indians - or any at all - really believe that the talks to be held today between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and West Indies Players Association (WIPA) will be so fruitless that tomorrow's deciding One Day International between England and the regional team will be aborted. Ref. Source 1
Windies should have stayed home
I join the thousands of West Indies supporters who hang their heads in shame and embarrassment at the pathetic display by the Windies cricketers in England. If they did not want to go to England this early why didn't they stage their usual "grand charge strike'' and stay home, instead of taking the Board's money as supposed professional players and performing like amateurs, embarrassing all West Indians who looked at them and disgracing Windies cricket. Ref. Source 1
WICB must leave
Who is the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) trying to fool? The WICB is blaming the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) for the current impasse. Anybody with basic knowledge and understanding knows the WICB is at fault. Ref. Source 9