Hello world!
Having won only the first of their five matches so far, West Indies find themselves probably having to win every remaining game if they are to make the semi-finals. Given that India are next up for them, at Old Trafford on Thursday, it seems a tough ask. But where there’s life there’s hope, and all that. We certainly haven’t seen the best of this team yet, and they were pretty close to beating Australia despite several misfiring batsmen. If Chris Gayle (who is averaging 26.75 at this tournament), Evin Lewis (24.33) and Andre Russell (just 12) can turn up this time, there is no reason why they can’t win this, and any, one. The Gayle/Lewis opening partnership is averaging a miserable 5.66 across three innings, by a very considerable margin the worst of any pair to have played more than one game together. By contrast New Zealand’s Guptill/Munro are contributing 61.33 to the average innings, and scored the 137 runs needed to beat Sri Lanka on their own. West Indies scored 421 when they played New Zealand in a warm-up last month, and need to return to that kind of form, sharpish.
If they do, or even close, this could be a belter.
Updated
