WIndies cling on for dear life - but will this mean new life for cricket in the Caribbean?

The West Indies team clung on to achieve a series win at the Queens Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

The England team didn't get to beat the WIndies after all. Too quick to run up their mouth...

...just couldn’t take the last two wickets (run out of gas - and time)

Ramnaresh Sarwan fully deserved his ‘Man Of The Series’ accolade - and he’s grateful for the US$6,000, I’m sure!

This is it. No more -

Perhaps the worst day in Test Match cricket, perhaps in cricket - full stop.

The Creator (YhWH) was on hand to make sure that these murderers did not get the cricketers, either to kill them or to have as much-prized hostages.

The Sri Lankan cricket squad make haste to leave the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, Pakistan 

after the atrocity earlier in the day.

Picture: taken from BBC Cricket web site©

Given that these individuals had so much firepower about their respective persons, it was an Almighty blessing that we are not talking about dead cricketers as well as 5 dead police officers (assigned to guard the Sri Lankan team). There was a rocket  launcher, apparently. If that had been used on the tour bus, I dread to think what might have happened. I really do.

The players and officials of the Sri Lanka board that are known to have been injured...

• Thilan Samaraweera (hospital)
  
• Tharanga Paranavitana (hospital)
  
• Mahela Jayawardene
  
• Kumar Sangakkara
  
• Ajantha Mendis
  
• Suranga Lakmal
  
• Chaminda Vaas
  
• Assistant coach Paul Farbrace
  

My deepest respects and condolences to the families of those who have lost ones to this terrorist outrage.