Australia Wins Series 2-0

The final score card on the Australia vs West Indies series is 2-0 but i feel the tests were fought much better than the end statistics.

Aussies had to earn the final test victory after some scary movements in the middle with Chanderpaul and Bravo set to take control on the proceedings to finish the game in their favor. It was some controlled aggression from Lee and Clark which put pressure on the WI batsmen to get out defending. Casson returned figures of 3-86 where the pitch had fair amount of turn.
But for two bad days, the final day in 1st test and the 3rd day in the final test, WI did match the world champions in all the departments. If Chanderpaul had some support from the other batsmen consistently, i feel the results could have been other way around. For the Australians it was the surprise success of Katich with big hundreds helped them with good starts and some special innings from Symonds in the crunch stages of the match helped Australia. Australia did struggle with the bowling lacking the ability to dominate the batsmen, Lee and Clark bowled well in patches but could not match the dominance of McGrath and Warne.

Kudos to ICC on taking some proactive moves in taking umpiring mistakes seriously and initiating some steps. Extract from cricinfo.

The ICC Board, had, in March, approved the trial of the review system during a Test series in the current cricket calendar. It will now have to approve its Cricket Committee's recommendations before the Sri Lanka- India series begins. The main elements are:

• Umpires should still be permitted to refer line decisions or boundaries to the third umpire as normal without a player requesting him to refer that decision"
• The players should be permitted to ask the on-field umpire to review any aspect of any other decision in consultation with the third umpire
• The process should take the form and order of: on-field umpire gives his decision; affected batsman or fielding side's captain asks the umpire to review that decision; the on-field umpire(s) and third umpire consult; the on-field umpire gives his final decision
• The committee recommended that Hawk-Eye technology could be used by the third umpire but only for the purposes of determining the actual path of the ball up until the point that it struck the batsman and not the predictor function of the technology