Former West Indies Take a look at captain Carl Hooper has warned the seemingly incurable malaise that is stricken the longest type of the sport within the Caribbean for nearly 20 years might get even worse.
Australia wrapped up a clear sweep of their two-Take a look at sequence towards the West Indies on the Adelaide Oval on Sunday following a complete 419-run thrashing.
It was the seventh consecutive sequence the Aussies have received to nil towards the as soon as dominant West Indies they usually have now held the Frank Worrell Trophy since 1994-95.
Former West Indies captain Carl Hooper (second left) is anxious concerning the state of his former crew after a drubbing towards Australia
The margin of defeat was the most important in West Indies Take a look at historical past when it comes to runs and their 77 all out whole of their second innings was the joint-seventh lowest whole of their historical past in pink ball cricket.
However Hooper, who captained the Windies in 22 Checks between 2000 and 2003, warned extra hidings might be on the playing cards as he slammed the crew’s perspective.
‘I do not assume we have hit all-time low as a result of each time I believe now we have, we preserve going decrease,’ he instructed ABC after the Take a look at.
‘It is getting increasingly more embarrassing — I am damage right now.
The West Indies had been skittled for 77 within the second innings of the Adelaide Take a look at on Sunday
‘I’ve by no means performed in a West Indies facet that has been bowled out for beneath 100. Simply by no means.
‘I imply your private pleasure means you exit and battle. We’re not preventing to qualify in main tournaments. How a lot decrease can we go?’
The Windies have gone via a raft personnel and training modifications prior to now decade, however Hooper insisted it was time for a radical overhaul on the prime.
‘We have modified captains, we have modified personnel, we have modified coaches — [it] hasn’t labored,’ he mentioned.
‘So perhaps let’s go a bit of bit increased and get individuals in these positions that may lead us in the precise route.’
The Windies are a pale imitation of the facet that dominated Take a look at cricket throughout the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. A mix of dropping world class gamers and the emergence of T20 cricket has seen the longer format of the sport usually relegated to an afterthought.
Since 2015, the Windies have received simply seven of its final 26 sequence, with three of these wins coming towards Bangladesh and one apiece towards Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.
England had been on the dropping facet in each of their final two excursions to the Caribbean, however the Windies have not received a sequence towards Australia since 2003, a yr after their final sequence win towards India.
Australia have not misplaced a sequence to the West Indies since their tour to the Caribbean in 2003
The Aussies have held the Frank Worrell Trophy because the 1994-95 season
World champions in T20 in 2012 and 2016, the Windies didn’t even attain the Tremendous 8 stage on the T20 World Cup in October and have not made it previous the quarter-finals of the 50-over competitors since 1996.
The world rankings mirror their plight, with the Windies ranked eight in Take a look at cricket, tenth in ODIs and seventh in T20s.
And Aussie cricket nice Simon O’Donnell echoed Hooper’s stance, admitting he was involved about the way forward for West Indian cricket.
‘They simply completely rolled over. It simply doesn’t scent proper to me,’ he instructed SEN Breakfast on Monday.
‘Let’s hope they will flip it round as a result of they’ve been an integral half and an thrilling a part of the worldwide cricket scene for a very long time, however I actually have fears.
‘It’s actual hazard time for his or her existence as a world cricketing nation, I believe.’
