While the Ashes series has generated a lot of excitement, we have the other two series going on in parallel, West Indies vs. Bangladesh (The wooden spoon contest) and Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka. I can only call these matches as emosional attyachar for the players, for the officials and for the fans.
Look at the state of affairs in the West Indies. Their players have been through a lot. First the Allen Stanford fiasco where the players lost a lot of their hard earned money and probably their life’s savings due to bad investment decision. Secondly, they have lost a lot young players to basketball where there seems to be a lot of money. So the team is in shambles, there is a continuous dispute with the board and they play with their second or third string players. How do you expect this team to put up a fight?
The other series has Pakistan which if you ask me needs to go through a thorough rebuilding process if they have to stop these 90 all out and 9 wickets out for 35 runs sort of scores. They are a collection of individual contributors not a team at this stage and the situation at home is not helping them. Sri Lankans on the other hand seem to have recovered rather rapidly from that ghastly attack in Lahore. Their team under Sangakkara is showing a lot of character and they have played some good quality cricket in the T20 championship and in this series too.
So there is the reason for my silence on these two contests.
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