Symonds Stands Out As Windies Deliver On Hard-and-fast Promise

IF THE Antigua Test was an exercise in death by paper cuts, the opening exchanges of the Barbados encounter was swords at 10 paces. The tedium of the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium pitch behind them, the Australians and West Indians tore into each other with ferocity on the harder, faster Kensington Oval surface. While rain prevented the first act from reaching its natural conclusion in Bridgetown on Thursday, enough play was completed for the Windies to claim the early ascendancy in their quest to ...

Test Bats Go Down Swinging

IF THE past Antigua Test was an exercise in death by paper cuts, the opening exchanges on day one in Barbados was flashing swords.