Dis done!

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Another ODI series in West Indies was won without much play. India was leading the West Indies on all fronts when the rain came pouring down. This is only India's second ODI series win there and matches their test series record in the Caribbeans.

I have read headlines and comments which suggest India's wins were unconvincing or thanks to divine help such as rain.

There is a grain/drop of truth in that if one sits down to examine, but the greater truth was that this Indian selection - some call it India C or India B - was able to play just enough better cricket than West Indies to prevail. Maybe WI were overconfident after their most recent run before this series in contrast to India's. Maybe they played worse than India did to lose this series. Maybe they invested too heavily in some clichés - Gayle's swinging club, Sarwan and Chanderpaul's amrtitiform revival playing India, XYZs having the match of their lives playing India (a la Faoud Bacchus and like), JT and cos' continued success with the mystery short balls, Ravi Rampaul repeating his act...and so on. Yes, maybe they didn't accommodate for some new ideas and possibilities.

That India could perhaps learn to guess those bouncers truly, that Rampaul was unlikely to have purple patches every day, that Ishant Sharma could slip in a KO CLATAAAAAX with the new ball, that the bouncer trip could be turned around as Nehra began to show rather effectively...that the momentum had shifted inexorably and rain just happened to interrupt a serious application of themselves by India. West Indies were walking on water before the rains.

But headlines and comments are just opinions at the end of the day.

However one thing is for certain, there are plenty of things India needs to correct in its own stable.