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AHMED­ABAD, In­dia – In­di­an crick­et leg­end Sunil Gavaskar has launched a scathing cri­tique of the West In­dies’ dra­mat­ic de­cline in Test crick­et, brand­ing their cur­rent pace at­tack as look­ing “more like net bowlers” af­ter a meek sur­ren­der to In­dia in the first Test.

The match, which In­dia won by an in­nings and 140 runs, was so one-sided that it was over­shad­owed by oth­er news, a stark con­trast to the era when a vic­to­ry over the West In­dies would have sent shock­waves across the globe. The

Caribbean side’s per­for­mance, both with bat and ball, paint­ed a pic­ture of a team far re­moved from its sto­ried past.