Cricket analyst Fazeer Mohammed says calling for Daren Sammy to tender his resignation West Indies head coach is not going to make difference.
He says prior to Sammy's tenure, there were others who also did not make a difference, thus proving that India has been a difficult place to play cricket.
00:01Having suffered an innings defeat to India inside three days in Ahmedabad, the West Indies are in a must-win situation going into the second and final test in Delhi starting October 10th.
00:11Cricket analyst Fazir Mohamed is known to get down to the nitty-gritty of the Caribbean team's display on the field of play.
00:17But he admits he's been saying the same thing over and again, which he can't avoid since the men in Maroon keep taking incessant blows.
00:24What do you say that hasn't already been said many times over, over several years in relation to the West Indies' latest embarrassment in India?
00:34This defeat inside three days by an innings.
00:37Similar to what happened in 2013 where the West Indies with Darren Sami as captain in the farewell test matches for Sachal Tendulkar lost both test matches by an innings inside three days.
00:47Move forward to 2018 when Jason Holder was captain for the first test and Craig Bradford for the second because Holder had been suspended.
00:56The West Indies lost the first ban innings inside three days, lost the second by ten wickets inside three days.
01:02As such, he's not confident about the team's chances in game two, far from it to be more precise.
01:08But does he expect a similar pattern as was the case in the first test match?
01:12And now there's every prospect after the latest embarrassment of the West Indies losing the second test match later this week also by an innings and also inside three days.
01:22Which really makes it almost boringly repetitive and in some ways infuriatingly repetitive.
01:28I'm sure for many of the viewers as well would have been saying, well, we hear this over and over and over again.
01:34Both teams played on the same pitch with the Indians excelling with bat and ball while the West Indians were the exact opposite.
01:40Having said that, there is a player on the visiting team that Mohammed chooses to spare.
01:46The one exception would be Jaden Seals, the one world class performer in this West Indies test match squad who again would have tried his best but would have suffered because of a lack of support as well.
01:58As well as he bowled, yes, he didn't get the wickets that many would have hoped for, but with the absence of the two Josephs, Alsari and Shammar, it was really asking a lot of just one bowler to carry that burden and we saw the net effect of the absence of those two key bowlers.
02:15Many have been calling for all-format coach Darren Sami to step down with the T20 series loss to Nepal exacerbating the situation despite the St. Lucia not being physically present in the UAE.
02:26But is the removal of Sami going to help West Indies cricket see better days, if not glory days?
02:31Of course you are going to get the call to fire the coach and fire this one and fire that one.
02:36But will it make a difference?
02:38This is not a defense of Darren Sami, but a reflection that we've changed coaches over and over again, many times over from our first coach, Rowan Kanai in the early 1990s.
02:51And since the decline has properly set in within the last 20, 25 years or so, there really has not been a fundamental difference.
02:59It speaks to systemic issues in West Indies cricket, which talk about the standard of play, the quality of play.
03:06Ever since the start of the new World Test Championship cycle, the West Indies have lost four out of four matches under new captain, Ruston Chase.
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