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There are 15 champions in Dwayne Bravos Champion. Four are cricketers. None are current members of West Indies Test team. Even little brother Darren finds no mention in the song.West Indies have won three ICC tournaments this year. Under-19 World Cup? Champions. Womens World T20? Champions. Mens World T20? Champions. But they havent won a Test series against anyone other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, home or away, since August 2012.West Indies most recent Test series ended in January. They lost 2-0, and, but for rain, could have lost 3-0. In that series, Australia ran up totals of 583 for 4 declared in Hobart, 551 for 3 declared and 179 for 3 declared in Melbourne, and 176 for 2 declared in rain-ravaged Sydney. They scored their runs at 4.67 runs per over.Champions, West Indies bowlers definitely were not. Above the dressing rooms at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua runs a strip of sans-serif capital letters. Sir Andy Roberts End, it says. At the opposite side of the ground, above the press box, is another strip of capital letters. Sir Curtly Ambrose End.Between them, those two took 607 wickets in 145 Tests at a combined average of 22.53, with 33 five-wicket hauls and five ten-wicket match hauls.On Thursday, when West Indies begin a four-Test home series against India, their squad will contain four fast bowlers with a total of 56 wickets in 31 Tests at a combined average of 40.39, and not a single five-wicket haul.West Indies have lost Jerome Taylor to Test retirement, and have ignored Kemar Roach. While both were abject in Australia - they combined for two wickets an average of 252.00, and gave away 5.79 runs per over - no team can easily replace a new-ball pair with 252 wickets and the experience of 83 Tests, even a pair as capricious, frustrating and injury-prone as Taylor and Roach.Fast bowlers win or lose Test matches, and West Indies enter their latest home season with a pace attack that is a candidate for being their weakest ever: Carlos Brathwaite, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder and Miguel Cummins.It isnt as if West Indies dont have other issues. They have dropped a wicketkeeper-batsman with 74 Tests behind him, and - Kraigg Brathwaite and Darren Bravo aside - have a top order full of question marks, the biggest among them hanging over the head of Marlon Samuels, who has been on a sensational run of limited-overs form of late, but hasnt passed 20 once in his last nine Test innings.But it is the bowling that will worry them the most, coming up as it will against the quality of Indias batting line-up and pitches that are likely to be slow and demand long spells of sustained pressure. In recent times, West Indies bowlers have not been particularly good at delivering those kinds of spells.One of the words that were going to harp on a lot is how patient we are, because we tend to get bored of bowling [at] one place and doing well and not getting wickets, so we try something [else], their head coach Phil Simmons said on Tuesday. So were going to harp on this, trying to be patient and do the things that were doing well, continuously, so that we get the wickets, and same thing with batting. You bat long and you stick around, you work hard and youll get the just reward at the end.Two days before the first Test, the West Indies team management tried to hammer this point home in the design of their net session. The quick bowlers net had an extra stump in it, nailed down on a fifth-stump line a couple of feet behind the wicket. Right through the net session, the only thing the fast bowlers attempted to do was bowl in the channel outside off stump, and the batsmen facing them tried to leave as many balls as they could. The wall of netting behind the batsmen shook violently, again and again and again. Every now and then, the fifth stump went for a spin.The effort was real, and palpable, but translating that sort of discipline into an actual match environment is a challenge of an entirely different magnitude. It will only take one bad session to remind West Indies that they are the eighth-best Test team of the nine that make up the rankings, and that they occupy that lowly spot at a time when there is talk of splitting Test cricket into two tiers.These are not good times for West Indies Test cricket, and the road uphill is steep.For all that, India cannot simply show up and expect to win. They won their last two Test series in the Caribbean, in 2006 and 2011, but only by 1-0 margins, and both those series reinforced their long-held status as a team that has always struggled away from home, seldom asserting their dominance even against weaker opposition. The last Test match they played in these islands, in Dominica, summed it up perfectly: the captains shook hands and agreed to a draw when India needed 86 runs to win, in 15 overs, with seven wickets in hand. India were content with a 1-0 win.India, began ESPNcricinfos final-day report of the Test match, will have to wait until 2016 to win more than one Test in a series in the Caribbean - a feat theyve never achieved.Indias Test captain Virat Kohli, still fairly new at his job, is an ambitious man. So is their new head coach. They will want a series win, first and foremost, regardless of the margin, but they have surely set their sights a little higher than that.Chris Conley Jaguars Jersey . Just as Montreal was settling into the first full working week of a new year, the Impact announced the appointment of their new head coach. Nick Foles Jaguars Jersey . Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. 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According the Toronto Star, a knee injury will keep Sundin out of the lineup, which includes former teammates Gary Roberts, Darcy Tucker, Tie Domi and Curtis Joseph.CLEVELAND -- Corey Kluber is back at the top of the Indians make-it-up-as-they-go rotation.Cleveland will start its ace in Game 1 of the AL Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, one of the few certainties Indians manager Terry Francona has as his team plays for a spot in the World Series.Trevor Bauer, who started the opener of the Division Series against Boston, will pitch Game 2 and Josh Tomlin will take the mound for Game 3 in Toronto on Sunday. After that, Francona has penciled in Mike Clevinger for Game 4, but that plan could change depending on what happens in the first three games.The uncertainty is nothing new to Francona, who has been forced to juggle his rotation for weeks after losing starters Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar to injuries.Franconas decision to send out Kluber first was expected after the right-hander showed no signs of a late-season quadriceps injury and pitched seven shutout innings in Game 2 against the Red Sox. Kluber limited baseballs highest-scoring team to three hits and ended any concerns about him not being himself in his first postseason.The Indians will need Kluber and the rest of their staff to be on when they face the wild-card Blue Jays, who battered Texas in their ALDS by hitting eight homers and scoring 22 runs.Theyre good, said Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway. Theyre excellent. Their whole roster is pretty good, as far as swinging the bat. Weve got to make pitches from Pitch 1. Theyre a little bit different makeup than Boston. Theyre not going to sit around and take a first-pitch strike. You cant just groove a first pitch to them. Youve got to throw quality strikes right out the get-go, and then make sure you stay ahead. Thats going to be the challenge, making sure you throw quality strikes early and see what happens after that.Kluber, who will face Toronto right-hander Marco Estrada in the opener, wentt 18-9 during the regular season, bouncing back from a 16-loss season in 2015.dddddddddddd He was 0-1 with a 6.30 ERA in two starts against the Blue Jays.While Francona has had to mix and match with his starters, he wont have Salazar on the ALCS roster.The Indians sent the right-hander to Arizona to build up stamina in hopes that he might be able to return for this series after being sidelined since early September with forearm tightness. But Francona said the 11-game winner is not ready, and the Indians dont want to rush him back.Hes doing pretty good, Francona said. Hes not back yet where hes throwing all his pitches or letting it go 100 percent. I think if we ask him to do that, he might be reaching right now. Weve been pretty vocal about the first priority is getting him back healthy. I think this proves it. We wouldnt do that to somebody.The loss of Salazar was compounded when Carrasco broke his right hand when he was hit by a line drive on Sept 17. Francona has had to be creative with his bullpen, using eight relievers to complete the game in which Carrasco got hurt.Theres not much our bullpen hasnt experienced throughout the course of the year, team president Chris Antonetti said. Weve had all different types of games, from the extra-inning game in Toronto to the game when Carlos left after two pitches. So, theres not too much our guys havent handled and I think theyre prepared and ready to go pitch when its their turn, whenever Tito calls upon them.Francona used his bullpen masterfully against the Red Sox, bringing in left-hander Andrew Miller earlier and relying on late-inning stalwarts Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen.The manager will likely take a similar approach into the series with Toronto.At this point, he doesnt have much choice. ' ' '