The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board have launched an investigation after the fourth and final Test between the West Indies and India lasted just 22 overs due to a waterlogged outfield.
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The shambolic finale will be of major concern to the WICB, given that the agreement of the Indians to play four Tests in the Caribbean was seen as a major diplomatic triumph after the abandonment of a tour of India by the West Indies in October 2014.
“We are going to play world-class sides at home who are going to capitalise on the window of chance we give them”.
“This has proved that we deserve cricket on our home grounds”.
The ICC Chief Executive David Richardson, while congratulating the Pakistan, said on Monday that reaching the summit was very well deserved for Misbah and his men and a testament to the quality of cricket Pakistan has consistently played over the past few years.
After ceaseless calculations of permutations after the cricket team’s victory in the final Test match against England in the Oval, Pakistan has definitively and officially risen to the number one spot in Test cricket for the first time since the modern ranking method was introduced.
“We looked set to compete at certain stages of the series but just couldn’t close out at crucial stages”, he explained. “So, those were the areas for us to solidify”, Kohli said. We wanted to try out this combination.
“Number-one ranking is a reward for something we had planned as a group a few years ago and have worked extremely hard to achieve it”. That’s what you expect from a Test playing nation.
“I said at the time that getting to number one was always a short-term incentive”, said Kohli at the post-match ceremony in bright sunshine. “It’s quite a remarkable effort and very significant in the context of them not being able to play matches at home”.
Team India now flies off to Florida to play two T20s against the West Indies this coming weekend. I’m pretty happy. I hope we can keep on making that aspect of our team stronger because when you are in a tough situation in Test matches those are the positions that matter a lot.
In 1998, the first Test of the series at Sabina Park in Jamaica lasted less than an hour before the umpires determined that the pitch was too risky for the English batsmen to cope with genuine fast bowling.
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“We needed improvement here in the lower order”. That’s why we back a guy like Ishant, because, against top-quality sides, he can still keep hitting those areas and he puts the batsman under pressure.
