Garth Wattley
The West Indies won a Test match yesterday. And the Queen’s Park Oval’s dwellers rejoiced.
“A-men, A-men!”
Words of thanks rang out of the Sir Learie Constantine Stand just after four o’clock, as Devon Smith spanked Muttiah Muralitharan to the extra cover boundary to complete a six wicket win over Sri Lanka.
Witnessing the event were some youngsters who would never have seen the West Indies win a Test here. The last success for the home side at the Oval was against Zimbabwe: eight years and fives matches ago.
Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine made up for that deficiency yesterday though.
Stamping their class on a game delicately balanced for the previous four days of this second and final Digicel Test, the West Indies vice-captain and former skipper gave a lesson in Test match batting and character under pressure.
