How to bore fans and influence nobody

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Indexed  June 24, 2010

The West Indies did their level best to hasten the death of Test cricket in St Kitts today with one of the most fantastically turgid batting displays I’ve ever had the misery to endure.On a dead pitch, voluptuous with runs and pregnant with possibility, Shivnarine Chanderpaul managed to score just 16 in the morning session of Day 4, which itself yielded only 39 runs. Dwayne Bravo scored 53 runs but took 215 balls to do so, despite it being practically impossible to get out.The Day 4 run rate was 1.90 runs per over, yet five centuries had already been made in the Test. It almost beggars belief.I understand the Windies were determined not to lose the T...   See the complete post here