Critics pitch in as Windies’ decks turn the tables

By Richard Edwards

In the wickets: Jomel Warrican

THOSE of a nervous disposition would be well-advised to watch the YouTube footage of the West Indies pace attack against England at Sabina Park in 1986 from behind the nearest sofa.
Such is the pace of modern Caribbean wickets, though, that most batsman would now have time for a quick snooze on that sofa before the ball finally arrived.
The England Lions tour of the West Indies has been little short of disastrous for the visitors – but it has also done little to dispel the notion that wickets in the region have gon...

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