By Tony (McWatt) and Reds (Perreira)
Prior to the start of the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup, Cricket West Indies’ Face-book Page had labeled the West Indies’ team’s campaign to regain its title as the tournament’s reigning champions “Mission Maroon!” With two defeats and just one win, a highly squeaky last over three-run win over Bangladesh, the West Indies team’s Mission Maroon has for all intents and purposes become Mission Improbable, if not altogether Impossible. The first three matches played by the West Indies have also been a major source of embarrassment to its selectors both at home and at the actual tournament itself.
Having accumulated just two points after its first three matches, the West Indies still has a mathematical chance of emerging as one of the two Group A teams that will progress to the tournament’s semi-final matches. In order to do so, the West Indies will have to win both of its remaining matches against Sri Lanka and Australia by very sizeable margins so as to ensure it has a better run rate than any of the other likely semi-final spot contenders. Sri Lanka, in its very close loss to South Africa, has indicated that it will not in any way be an easy pushover.
