All eyes on Oman and the UAE

By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira)

SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. A SWOT analysis is, therefore, a strategy that is often used by businesses for measuring and evaluating their abilities to successfully achieve a specific objective. Over the next few weeks the attention of all Caribbean cricket fans and followers is likely to be firmly focused towards Oman and the UAE for the West Indies team’s quest to retain its ICC T20 World Cup title. As such, we thought that a SWOT Analysis of the team’s chances for success would now be most timely.

Despite all the justifiable criticisms leveled at the West Indies Selectors over some of their choices for the West Indies’ 15 members 2021 T20 World Cup Squad, its “Strengths” are never-the-less as numerous as they are obvious. First off there’s the immense available talent in both batting and bowling.