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Originally Posted by Tiger444
WI isn't playing all that well but let's not jump up and say we aren't far away from them..SA is a solid team and beat us pretty bad at our home..our 1st test was close but 2nd test we just got murdered and we scored above 200 only once..and the ODI's well the less said the better..we have improved since then but still we havent won even 1 game this year while WI has won some games..so their still ahead of us by a good margin..
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lets not forget that we played far better IN south africa, despite the 2 innings defeats.
first test, saffers were 130-5 chasing our total of 250, before boucher and some other guy put on 200 run partnership.
2nd test, had it not been for 3 top order run outs, we could have easily avoided an innings defeats.
both matches were on green, bouncy tracks.
WI are getting owned at home, where we at least pushed SA in the first test.
in fact, on paper this windies team is probably no better than us. in conditions which favor us, we'd even come out on top perhaps. in their conditions (and i mean there in terms of wickets and not necessarily geographically) they would have the clear edge. only unquesitoned edge is that they would believe they can beat us, whereas our boys would play to not lose, rather than win, and in the process lose comprehensively.
but on paper, they ain't much better than us, if any better at all.