{"id":214608,"date":"2024-10-24T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=214608"},"modified":"2024-10-24T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:44:47","slug":"letter-west-indies-are-too-harden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-west-indies-are-too-harden\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: West Indies are too harden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Indies are too harden<\/p>

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Congratulations to Sri Lanka; you guys were better, and congratulations to New Zealand. You ladies deserve it. Again, the dot ball percentage and the lack of running between the wickets cost us cricket matches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other nations have figured us out: don’t give WI any width or freebies to hit them out of the park, and we’ll gift them wickets. It’s the same trend we observe every ICC tournament and are not learning. <\/p>

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Why are West Indies testing the bench and reserves on the tour to Sri Lanka? WI haven’t\u00a0won a series against them in Sri Lanka in ages, who does WI think they are?\u00a0<\/p>

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Play the best players and throw them in after we’ve won the series. I don’t get why the WI have this habit of winning the first game, copulating miserably in the second, and losing the third by the barest of margins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, we will learn and do better in the next one. <\/p>

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The media training isn’t fooling anybody. Focus on the game at hand, and take some responsibility, fellas. How are Daren Sammy and Avinash Seetaram not seeing this with their computer screens and shades on?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Indies and the ladies are too hardened. This is why we can’t mix it up in international cricket: Poor battership out, poor battership in, right, Vaneisa Baksh? On the England tour of the West Indies, we must crush the new-look England team. <\/p>

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Running hard between the wickets and reducing the dot ball percentage to at least one or two per over is compulsory.<\/p>

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Kendell Karan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaguanas<\/p>\n

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West Indies are too harden Congratulations to Sri Lanka; you guys were better, and congratulations to New Zealand. You ladies deserve it. Again, the dot ball percentage and the lack of running between the wickets cost us cricket matches. 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