Close, but no cigar.
The anger of Sky’s commentary team following the drawn fifth test at Port-of-Spain was something to behold. Andrew Strauss, who, like every England cricket and rugby captain of the last five years (or so it seems), managed to talk about “taking the positives” from an abject failure, was the target of much of their ire; his ill-timed declarations in Antigua and Trinidad apparently his most heinous crimes.
There is no doubt that the test series in the West Indies has been an enormous disappointment from England’s point of view. Knowledgable cricket afficionados around the world confidently predicted a comfortable series win for England, dismissing the horror of the Stanford 20/20 as an ill-judged freak show. A 2-0 or 3-0 win would have been nothing more than “job done”.
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