| krishna |
Posted
on 25-Apr-03 01:08 PM
While speculations have surrounded the West-Indies captain for underperforming while on pressure leading the side, West-Indies Cricket Board once again gambled by awarding Lara as the captain of a vastly improving young Windies cricket team.
Under immense pressure from critics all over the world and with so much of pressure mounting on him, West Indies captain Brian Lara hits back with authority making a fantastic 91 and even swashbuckling 122 against World Champions Australia in the first and second innings of the second test at Trinidad.
Though they might have lost the Frank-Worrell trophy, but West Indies as a team are reviving those late 70s and early 80s memories when they were the dominant force in world cricket and a team to beat.
The way the young Windies team performed was very impressive. They made a score of 408 and 288 which otherwise would have been more then enough to beat any side in the world, not quite Australia. But they definitely showed the trade mark carribean cricket that was world reknowned only a decade back.
They have some superb cricketers in Ganga, Sarwan, Lara and Samuels. I specially admired Ram Naresh Sarwan, he is just 20 and a player of immense potential. He has already played some breathtaking knocks in his early career and has a lot to go. He is developing as a brick of a middle order and when someone as Brian Lara is back at his best, I am looking at a complete progress of a dominance in a year or two from the carribean cricket team.
Krishna....
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