Sitting in Barbados airport as I write this – what a day. Wake-up call in Guyana at 3:00am this morning to catch a 5:35am flight from Georgetown to St.Vincent for the final three ODIs.
Except, of course, the flight isn’t from Georgetown TO St.Vincent. We flew to Trinidad where we waited for an hour and 40 minutes before moving on to Barbados. So far, the flight to St.Vincent is an hour late and there isn’t a single plane on the entire runway. And none on the skyline either. It’s 12:30pm and we’ve been up for nine and half hours!
The players remain in remarkably good spirits but they are clearly knackered and desperate to get to our next port of call. Not even a lounge to sit in. Can’t imagine Proteas standing for this sort of treatment.
Amusing column appeared in the local Guyana newspaper after Zim’s thrilling two-run victory in the first ODI. Extract below!
“These are times when West Indies cricket drives you absolutely nuts with despair. When a team which has been lifelong minnows in world cricket, like Zimbabwe, starts beating up on your team which was once kings of the world for longer than any other in the history of the game, you are justified if your rage forces you to behave in like manner to the inmates of the Berbice mental hospital.
The author, Orin Davidson, goes on to berate the WICB administrators around the Caribbean for allowing spin-friendly wickets to be prepared in Trinidad for the T20 international, which Zimbabwe won by 26-runs, and again at Providence Stadium in Guyana for the first two ODIs, the first of which the tourists won by two runs in a final ball thriller.
“The pitches at Queen’s Park Oval and Providence were spinning paradises which made the West Indies the mocking stock of the world when Zimbabwe packed their side with five spinners.”
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