Laziness , Bling , KFC eating and other stuff gets into the way ! :-[
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You think Roach is toothless?
1997 is when we had Ambrose, Walsh and Bishop togther, all three deadly, though Ambrose was starting to lose pace.
In the first 1997 test vs India, Hooper, Chanders and Lara put up big scores. Rose cleans up India with 7 wickets and the game is won.
India was about to kill us in the second test, but Chanders and Stuart Williams bat long and slow and save a draw for us.
In the third test, WI batsmen fail in both innings, but Chanders gets a century and gives us something to defend. Rose and Bishop kill the Indians.
Fourth test, again drawn. Lara gets a century but play is scrapped for 3 days. We would have probably lost if those three days werent scrapped.
Fifth test, two days scrapped, match goes to a draw.
In those five tests, we only had one convincing win with everyone doing well together.
West Indies then won the four match ODI series, Chanders making a century and a 83. No other batsmen did much, except Stuart Williams with 2 good knocks.
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That's good synopsis of that tour. I saw most of it on PPV and in bars here in Canada.
The Indians suffered a big set back before the tour when Srinath pulled out because of injury. That left Prasad as the leader of their pace attack with Kuruvilla and Ganesh as support. Kumble and Joshi were the two spinners. That was an inexperienced attack and they struggled at times to penetrate some gritty West Indian batting at crucial moments.
A large part of their batting was also inexperienced as Dravid, Laxman, and Ganguly were all in their second year of international cricket and their first tours to the West Indies.
That tour produced some excellent cricket from both sides. But as Tendulkar wrote; there was no way they should have lost that Barbados test.