The visitors may be favourites to win the Test series but focus will be on key positions before Australia visit
Off to the Caribbean we go. Once English cricketers went there with trepidation: quick pitches, quick-scoring West Indian batsmen and very quick, skilful bowlers easily trumped the prospect of blissful sandy beaches and a few rum punches. A tour of the West Indies was an ordeal that used to encompass visits to some of the great cricketing arenas, Sabina Park in Jamaica, the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad and Bourda in Guyana, the last of which has been replaced by another white elephant, out-of-town stadium.
England no longer visit these venues since they are not so popular as tourist destinations. Instead, after their first match at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, they will play another Test in Antigua and their first ever in St Lucia.
Written by Vic Marks
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/12/england-joe-root-ashes-clues-west-indies under the title “England and Joe Root search for Ashes clues against wayward West Indies”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
