Contests are exciting. Watching a one-sided demolition job (by your team) on a lesser opponent may make you feel better but it is hardly an exciting contest.

The one-day game can go either way. There were two teams in this final trying their very best and the bowling and fielding (especially the catching) in those conditions were really good. Credit is due to the W Indies team for winning an exciting contest.

With hindsight - knowing that these two batsmen would survive all the attacking from the best bowlers - a less attacking option may have increased the pressure upon them to play more risky shots. If they had gotten behind the required rate - who knows what would have happened. But the tactics were the right ones I think - the batsmen just deserve all the credit for the fact that these tacics did not work.