Hurricane ruin is of Grave concern

By Richard Edwards

Huge task: Johnny Grave

WHEN your Test side is lurching from one defeat to another it’s easy to lose a sense of perspective.
So perhaps Joe Root’s side should have spent some time in the run-up to the Headingley Test speaking to West Indians impacted by the full might of Hurricane Irma and Maria back in September.
As many as 90 per cent of the buildings on Barbuda were destroyed when Irma stuck, leaving the island barely habitable. Just two weeks later, Dominica was battered by Hurricane Maria and suffered similarly catastrophic damage. The rebuilding proce...

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