Weakened Windies take on dangerous Netherlands

Ottis Gibson

By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup in DELHI

The West Indies resume their World Cup campaign at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here today, appreciably weakened and forced into a change of strategy for the remainder by the loss of the player coach Ottis Gibson calls their “energizer.”

As they take on the lightly rated but potentially dangerous Netherlands, Dwayne Bravo, their dynamic all-rounder, is thousands of miles away getting ready for treatment on the left knee so badly injured in Thursday’s opening match against South Africa that he