West Indies cricketers too harden

THE EDITOR: Congratulations to Sri Lanka. You guys were better. Congratulations to New Zealand, you ladies deserve it.

Again, the dot ball percentage and the lack of running between the wickets cost the West Indies cricket matches. Other nations have figured us out: don't give the WI any width or freebies to hit them out of the park; and we will gift them wickets.

It's the same trend we observe every ICC tournament and we are not learning. Why was West Indies testing the bench and reserves on the tour of Sri Lanka? The WI hasn't won a series against Sri Lanka in that country in ages. Who does the WI think it is?

Play the best players and throw in the bench after we have won the series. I don't get why the WI has this habit of winning the first game, capitulating miserably in the second, and losing the third by the barest of margins. Oh, we will learn and do better in the next one.

The media training isn't fooling anybody. Focus on the game at hand, and take some responsibility, fellas. How are Daren Sammy and Avenesh Seetaram not seeing this with their computer screens and with shades on?

The West Indies men and women are too hardened. This is why we can't mix it up in international cricket.

On the England tour of the West Indies, we must crush the new-look England team. Running hard between the wickets and reducing the dot ball percentage to at least one or two per over is compulsory.

KENDELL KARAN

Chaguanas