Send Hapless Windies Home, Says Colin Croft

SYDNEY, NOV 24: Former West Indies Test great Colin Croft on Friday described the side dismissed for 82 by Australia as a disgrace and said they should be sent home.

‘‘Unless there is a startling improvement in the second innings then the agony should not be prolonged,’’ the retired fast bowler wrote in a column for The Australian newspaper.

The broadside by one of the West Indies blistering pace attack of the 1970’s followed one of the worst performances on record by his compatriots on the first day of the first Test against Australia in Brisbane on Thursday.