Two Test matches in the Southern Hemisphere

The two boxing day test matches ended in less than four days. While India capitulated without much fight and look in some trouble in Sydney as well, what the West Indian victory underlines is that in a few years the West Indies could be a decent performing unit.What startles me is that the slide started with both ambrose and walls playing alongside Lara and Chanderpaul. Let us hpe this is not a false dawn like the first test against England in 2000. West Indies presence in international arena gives us so many nations actually playing top flight cricket. Remove them and we will be left with no representative team from South America besides the number of countries actually playing test matches would get reduced to two in Europe( England and Wales), one in Africa, two in Oceania and four in South Asia. To stop cricket from becomuing a South Asian sport the West Indies cricket has to be in fine fettle. Here is all the best wishes for 2008 and the New Year Test.