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India, May 11 -- As the crow flies, or indeed the incredibly unreliable Caribbean airline, Liat, the distance between Barbados and St Lucia is a mere 172 kilometres. But for the India team, the two islands are a world apart. The reason for this is that piece of real estate that means more to cricketers than any other - the 22 yards between the two sets of stumps that they ply their trade on. At the Kensington Oval in Barbados, the extra pace and bounce forces batsmen, with thousands of international runs under the belt, to hop and jump like club cricketers. When the team returns to St Lucia for their final match of the Super Eights, against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, it will be a virtual homecoming for the two teams. The sluggish pitch at the Beausejour Stadium will make it difficult for even the mighty Australians to successfully bounce out teams, and instead bring the spinners right back to the fore. In Barbados, all talk has justifiably centred around the short-ball strategy that has been the bane of all the sub-continental teams, whose batsmen aren't accustomed to playing in bouncy conditions and whose bowlers aren't best equipped to exploit them.
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