The Windies win

The hearts and minds of the cricket community.

Well that is stretching it a little bit.

But they didn’t collapse.

Well ok they sort of collapsed.

But they didn’t play for a draw, well they sort of played for a draw.

But they didn’t do performance enhancing drugs, that I know of.

Overall they came up 120 runs short.

Which is good.

What is bad is the way they batted that first session, they did what shall be known as an England.

Retreating so far into their shells that they become easy targets rather than real batsmen.

From what I remember they made 16 runs off the first ten overs of the morning.

Now there is a case for taking the slow and steady approach, and there is a case for going out and winning the game.

But there is no case for giving Murali 5 overs to peg you down at the start of the day.

They may have talked big, but they played small.

I like the windies, they are cute in a non threatening sort of way, like Owen Wilson.

If however they want to be a real cricket team, I think that sheathing their swords at the start of the day was a very bad idea.www.cricketwithballs.com "Gee, Andre, what are we going to do tonight?"