Re: Windies V India
jazbati logo, India are a very good ODI side because of their strong batting. Teams have pressure, pressure of knowing that they need to score close to 300 every time in order to challenge the strong Indian batting. That pressure often induces mistakes from batsmen. Gayle, after the loss of those two early wickets then needed to bat sensibly for the next 20 overs or so but he let the anger and frustration get to him. A player like him can change the game in 5 overs let alone 40 odd overs. In tests you have no such pressure of run rate. You can take your time to tame the trundlers.
In ODIs you don’t need to take all ten wickets. Hence bowlers who know how to contain (Mohinder Amarnath or Mudassar Nazar type bowlers although the latter was also famous for breaking difficult partnerships in tests) often do well.
During the recent test series in Australia, India batted well but time and again bowlers failed to finish off the innings. On many occasions Australia’s last 5 scored more runs than the top 5! There is a reason why India have lost 11 of the last 12 tests in Australia and England; bowling just not good enough for swing and seam conditions imo.
India’s bowling is adequate for ODis and I would maintain that even if they go on to win the world cup.
I didn’t claim India had a dominant attack. Nowadays the tail wags all over. And between batting and bowling the latter performed worse. Far worse.
In spite of the India should have won the 1st Test but for consistently poor decisions one way. (Drs is another discussion and I have stated india should go with it)