Let's stop fooling ourselves

published: Sunday | June 29, 2008 Tony Becca, Contributor The West Indies are 2-0 down in the one-day series against Australia and the third match takes place today in Grenada. Although it is a limited-over contest, and although the West Indies were expected to make it interesting, unless something extra-ordinary happens, at the end of the day it will be 3-0 in favour of Australia, with the tourists heading for a clean sweep. And with the bowlers doing reasonably well, the two losses so far have been because of the Windies inconsistency in the field, and, most importantly, because of their disappointing performance with the bat. Weak batting Contrary to what the coach and the captain have said, however, the West Indies performance has nothing to do with which team play well on a particular day. It has nothing to do with... [read full story]