Is our cricket going the same way as West Indies cricket? – By Sanjeewa Jayaweera Source : island Until 1977, when Kerry Packer set up the World Series Cricket (WSC) tournament, Australia and England took turns to hold the mantle of being the world’s top test-playing team; during this period, the West Indies did, on occasions, challenge the order of supremacy but were never able to be consistently good. The Indians and Pakistanis were competitive when playing at home but could not defeat the Australians in Australia. All that changed in 1979 when the Australian and English Boards and the ICC made peace with Kerry Packer. The West Indies team that emerged post the WSC were to dominate world cricket for nearly a decade and a half as they possessed a conveyor belt of fast bowlers and some brilliant batsmen. When playing in the WSC tournament, the West Indies team under ...
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A Lesson worth Learning Source:-island A country of 5.5 Million, people far removed in the Pacific Oceon, has within two years scaled the dizzy competitive heights of World Cricket in the most exemplary fashion, narrowly conceding the 50 over championship to a freak incident, and annexing the Test championship in a final worthy of the best in Cricket! They went from dignity in a painful defeat in July 2019, to being gracious in victory in June 2021! The spirit in which that Test match was played throughout, the sportsmanship of the Indian team, who did not resort to any negative tactics even as the game was wrested from their control, and the humility of the New Zealand captain and his predecessor Ross Taylor after the winning runs were made upheld the spirit of the noble game throughout! What was more appropriate than to see that demonstrated in the first ever ...
