West Indies Get What They Deserve

They may have gotten away with playing negative cricket in the test series but on this occasion the West Indies got exactly what they deserved. Coach John Dyson gestured for his players to come off for bad light whilst wrongly thinking they were ahead on Duckworth Lewis when they were actually one run behind. This extraordinary turn of events left his team on 244-7 and therefore handed the game to England on a plate.

The light was fading but there were only a few balls left of the match and Windies were in a great position to win needing roughly a run a ball to win. Both batsmen at the crease seemed more concerned with the light than winning the game.

The confusion was rumoured to have stemmed from a correction to the score earlier in the West Indies innings where two runs were deducted. All parties were informed of this at the time but it appears the Windies backroom staff either did not take this correction into account or just got their sums wrong in general. D/L calculations need to be double and triple checked simply because they change with every ball.

It is actually good for cricket that England won the first one day international because if the West Indies had won it then they would probably have resorted to attempting to tie the remainder of the matches in the series. As mistakes go this was a massive clanger and after the recent test series, there will not be much sympathy on offer.

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