West Indies may have annihilated lowly Zimbabwe at home in the 20 overs series, but they still have a long way to go before they can claim they are near the golden era of the 1970s and 80s.
That is the opinion of the Cayman Islands’ technical director of cricket, Theo Cuffy.
On current form, West Indies should have won comprehensively anyway as World T20 champions.
They easily won on the second day in a row by 41 runs in the second T20 International in Antigua on Sunday.
“Only time will tell if we are really on the path back to greatness,” Cuffy said. “These matches against Zimbabwe are not a good judgement of where we truly are at in our development.
“Zimbabwe have not played in any competition for over a year and it is two years since they opted out of the Test arena,” he added. “If we had lost to Zimbabwe it would be a sad reflection of where we are. We’ve still got a lot of work to do against the highest level teams.”
Man-of-the-Match on Sunday was Samuel Badree. He took a career-best 3-17 off four overs at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.
Watched by a boisterous crowd, which included the legendary Sir Vivian Richards, the West Indies racked up 158-7 off their 50 overs. Opener Lendl Simmons was again in good form with 41 and Kieron Pollard smashed 45 not out off 24 balls.
Simmons was named Man-of-the-Series following his 63 not out on Saturday, which also included plenty of sixes.
It was the eighth consecutive win for the West Indies, who are undefeated since the International Cricket Council World T20 in October when they won the world title in dramatic fashion against home team Sri Lanka.
Skipper Darren Sammy was delighted that they won so convincingly and gave local fans something to cheer about.
West Indies players are now preparing to play for their territories in the Regional 4 Day tournament before regrouping in Barbados for the first Test match against Zimbabwe at Kensington Oval on Tuesday.
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