Windies failing the test

Cosmo Hamilton

By Cosmo Hamilton

Despite their encouraging performance in the T20 and ODI’s against a typically tough if new-look Australia team, it is evident that this relatively inexperienced West Indies team has not yet turned the proverbial corner and in fact they appear to have come to a fork in the road.

Having lost the First Test in Barbados and again shown their soft underbelly in the Second Test in Trinidad of a weak top order and a propensity for complete batting collapse out of the blue in the middle to lower order, one is left to wonder whether West Indies are constituted mentally to shed their T20 and ODI attention span and focus for five days, 15 sessions,