From: SHARIQ@charlie.usd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: West Indies
Date: 18 Nov 1992 18:17:04 -0600
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>The West Indians are here again and they are back to being world beaters again
>Last year when they came out they had just lost the likes of Greenidge, Viv
>and Dujon which hurt em bad. they needed time to recover and they have had it.
>Quick run down of how they shape up in different areas and who i think should
>be in the test side.
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World beaters, That only time will tell. How can they really show their 
recovery until the real tests come out.

>Openers
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>Haynes :	Speaks for himself.
>Simmons :  	He got a century against the Aust XI but he failed a bit b4
>that, maybe Lara but id hate to see his talent wasted by making him open,
>cant see Wallace getting a good look in here.
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If Simmons is a world class opener, and the best West Indies got then God
save West Indies. Lara is a much better prospect.


>Richardson :	Still beleive hes one of the best batsmen in the world
>Lara : 		Easily the most promising batsman in the world
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What garbage? Tendulkar is the most promising batsman in the world. How many
hundreds has Lara got? No doubt that he is really very good but the most....!

>Hooper/Adams :	Hooper was one of the most promising Batsmen the Windies had
>seen 3 years ago. He reminds me of Mark Waugh he comes in strokes the ball
>beautifully for a few overs and then gets out doing something dumb. Adams
>is steady and could steady the Windies much the same way as Larry Gomes did
>so brilliantly for so long. Both can bowl too, but i feel Hooper is a better
>bowler than Adams so maybe hell get a spot ahead of him.
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Adams out of the side......Are you nuts? Simmons should be out of the side!


>Logie :		Hes gotta be in the side he gives the Windies an extra
>flair with his energetic fielding and batting. Arthurton could get a look in
>but hes carded a few failures lately.
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Yes,certainly Logie should be in the side because by now he is an established 
member of the side and a few failures here and there do not matter.However,
I think Logie will not do well in Australia.

 
>Ambrose :	If Ambrose can improve on the way he was bowling on his first
>tour of Australia when he was still green he will worry the Aussies all
>summer. And hes learning to bat too. Well he can back a little.
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I think Ambrose will do rather well on this tour once more.


>Bishop : Supposedly the fieriest bowler in the world. Maybe he wont get injured
>this year and bowl well. *shrug*
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Supposedly.....,by you. You forget Patterson,Younus,Akram,etc.Plus, have you 
seen him bowl in county cricket.He was a pale shadow of the bowler he once was.


>Williams :	When will the windies realise that the reason they won alot of
>close matches b4 was coz Dujon was an extra batsman as well as a wickie.
>Williams is undoubtedly a better keeper but he cnat bat for shit.
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I take you for that


>Cummins :	Should be in the side, he bowled well last year and for most
>of this year. And courtney Walsh just gets smashed everywhere. Walsh will
>probably get this spot.
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Yes Walsh will be in the side because he is a much better bowler, and when do 
recall seeing him get smashed, and Cummins,well he will get his chance.


>Patterson :	Rambo's back and still has to live up to his nickname. Hes
>quick and if he's in the side with Bishop,Walsh/Cummins and Ambrose and they
>all bowl well, the windies could have a four pronged pace attack to remind
>the aussies of the days when Marshall,Holding,Roberts and Garner ripped em
>apart.
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Patterson will do fine but the idea you have of these bowlers smashing
Australia the way their predecessors did is kind of hard to digest because 
the latter were probably the greatest combination of fast bowlers the world 
have ever, or will ever see.


>So the side i'd pick would be as follows :-

>Haynes
>Simmons         __Lara
>Richardson
>Lara            --Hooper
>Hooper          __Adams
>Logie
>Ambrose
>Williams
>Bishop
>Cummins (but Walsh will get this spot)  __Walsh.......Yes!
>Patterson

>ps wasnt it a sight for sore eyes seeing Merv get smashed all around Bellerive
>Oval and just stand there with his hands on his hips watching balls crash into
>the fences.
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West Indies are no longer the force they used to be, and will probably never 
be.As for the series prediction, it will end in a tie, that will be a first 
timer for Australia against West Indies in a long time.


Shariq