5 positives for West Indies after the second Test

Stuart Law’s coaching

West Indies coach Stuart Law has done a commendable job

Coaching an international team is not easy and it gets even tougher when you are coach of a team who were once champions and now can hardly compete against the big teams of the world.

Stuart Law must be appreciated for what he’s managed to achieve with this Windies team. They were battered, bruised and looked completely out of place post their shocking performance in Edgbaston. Nobody thought this team could win the next game, that too this emphatically.

Within a short span of time, Law has galvanised his troops, and some honest discussions with his team and built the self-confidence the team lacked especially after the first test match. Sometimes you just need someone to believe in your abilities when the chips are down and that’s the coach did.

One mustn’t forget that Stuart Law was the man behind the resurgence of Bangladesh cricket off late. He was the coach in their recent successes across all formats of the game. So he has been in such situations before and that knowledge came as a blessing for this Windies team.

More than everything he seems to have given freedom to his men and allowed them to express themselves. It could have been easy to go with the flow and submit to your fate, but Law believed in his men and it’s that strong belief which carried West Indies to a historic win at Edgbaston.

It takes a man with good skill and immense character to have managed to motivate and bolster the hapless Windies team. And what sufficed in the historic win will be remembered by cricket fans for a long time, as it was a victory of a team against all odds.