To the Pinnacle of World Cricket - The West Indies Story

[Andy99]

I'm going to build a successful team starting of by only including 3 players above the age of 25. The 3 will be Gayle, Sarwan and Chanderpaul. The rest will be 25 and under.
This is the squad that I came up with:
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[Andy99]

1st tour match
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It was a good game just everyone contributed.
Our second innings total came off just 65 overs.

[Andy99]

2nd tour match
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[Andy99]

Disappointing match. I stuck with the 11 that had beaten the MCC.
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[Chasjs]

Unlucky in the First Test.
973 is HUGE, even for a friendly, if it was me though, I'd be too tempted to push for 1000 just for the sake of it.

[Andy99]

Yeah I thought about going for it but I wanted to push for the victory.

[Andy99]

2nd test match
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It was a great comeback by the lads.
Deonarine brilliant in his 1st innings of the tour.
Taylor and Rampaul did the damage in the second innings with the new ball.

[Andy99]

McClean, Stoute and Simmons were sent home and the rest remained for the ODIs.
1st ODI
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This was a really close affair but an unbroken stand of 67 between Prior and Swann saved the English.

[Andy99]

2nd ODI
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Captain Ramdin seeing us home in this one.

[Andy99]

3rd ODI
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Pollard and Ramdin saw us thru.

[Andy99]

Alot of positives to take from this tour.
Denesh Ramdin's led the side to somewhat of successful tour to England, drawing the test series and winning the ODIs.

Now on to the world T20 world cup, the same squad continues.

[Andy99]

1st group match
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Disappointing result for us, didn't do enough with the bat.

[Andy99]

2nd group match
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A better showing with the ball but our batting needs some work.

[Andy99]

1st Super Eight match
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Nothing to say about this showing.

[Andy99]

2nd Super Eight match
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We were always in control.

[Andy99]

Final Super Eight match
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Great result.

[Andy99]

Semi Final
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Dominating performance by lads.

[Andy99]

Final
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And we are the Champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andy99]

Tournament stats
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Our top 4(Gayle, Chanderpaul, Barath and Sarwan) was simply brilliant.
Permaul and Jaggernaut were particularly impressive.

[Chasjs]

Nice one!!! Some good results there and you came back twice from losing the first match in both groups to qualify, but you beat them both the 2nd time in the Semis and Final. For your number 5 to only play 3 innings aswell, that's pretty good.

[Andy99]

Now on to the 4 ODIs vs India in the Caribbean. We stuck with the same squad from the T20 WC.

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What a series it has been. Outstanding stuff by the boys.
We've show just how good of a batting power we are.

[Andy99]

Long holiday for the guys now.
Next up a tour down under against the Aussies.

Amit Jaggernaut was injured so V. Permaul made his debut in the opening test along with D. Cruickshank who was given the opportunity after some impressive Fist Class performances.
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Whats there to say about this performance, simply outstanding.

Cruickshank and Sammy made way for Pollard and Jaggernaut in the second test.
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We were dealt a huge blow when Bravo got injured on 100 in the first innings. he took no further part in the match.
Our spin twins did a great job for us.

Deonarine came in for the injured Bravo.
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Was sure if we had enough time but in two session(66 overs) we amassed our second innings total and with 2 sessions remaining in the match we bowled out the Aussies.
Great effort by us. We swept the series 3 - nil.

[Imager36]

Are you doing this on easy mode? Because I really can't see the West Indies getting 600+ against Australia on Normal.

[patrickF690]

this has to be on easy

[Andy99]

Yep, its on easy.

[Johncladio]

Westindies going through worst time.

[GrahamB]

Yep, its on easy.

It's good that you're honest about it. :)

[Johncladio]

Long holiday for the guys now.
Next up a tour down under against the Aussies.

Amit Jaggernaut was injured so V. Permaul made his debut in the opening test along with D. Cruickshank who was given the opportunity after some impressive Fist Class performances.
http://i31.tinypic.com/6pt8r9.jpg
Whats there to say about this performance, simply outstanding.

Cruickshank and Sammy made way for Pollard and Jaggernaut in the second test.
http://i26.tinypic.com/1yttz7.jpg
We were dealt a huge blow when Bravo got injured on 100 in the first innings. he took no further part in the match.
Our spin twins did a great job for us.

Deonarine came in for the injured Bravo.
http://i31.tinypic.com/2hqcykp.jpg
Was sure if we had enough time but in two session(66 overs) we amassed our second innings total and with 2 sessions remaining in the match we bowled out the Aussies.
Great effort by us. We swept the series 3 - nil.

Gayle is brilliant as always.