Sri Lankan Shambles

Sri Lanka have not been invited to play a Boxing Day Test Match against Australia for quite a long time – and given their performance in the past few days I can see why. What a dismal performance. Their batsmen completely lacked application and discipline. Several of them played Mitchell Johnson as if he was hurling thunderbolts – which he definitely was not! Poor.

A sleeping giant stirs

The West Indies were beaten by England in the first Test at Lords. The margin of defeat was not a large one but the better side won in the end. That is the point – the better side won. So often when playing the West Indies the opposition hasn’t really had to try very hard. Over the past decade the West Indies have shown a general lack of commitment bordering on the amateur at times. They have been, no doubt, an embarrassment to their supporters. A push over. Not so at Lords, or from what I understand in the recent home series against Australia. The West Indies have fought. They have tried and it shows. They might not be winning games but they are starting to win hearts and that is the first step. Whatever Darren Sammy is saying to them is working. Long may it continue.