West Indies v Bangladesh 2009 / Features

West Indies cricket

The art of brokering peace

Aug 2, 2009: Shridath Ramphal's confidence is heartening. It would be a masterstroke if he manages to influence a binding accord between the WICB and WIPA

Bangladesh's best

Jul 31, 2009: Shakib Al Hasan has been a terrific find with bat and ball in Tests and ODIs

Crisis in West Indies cricket

West Indians need something to celebrate

Jul 29, 2009: The West Indian supporters are desperate for something to cheer from its cricketers, but are WIPA and the WICB listening?

Crisis in the West Indies

Windies cricket in its death throes

Jul 20, 2009: A reconstituted body, West Indies Cricket, must be formed to oversee governance of cricket in the Caribbean, as outlined in the PJ Patterson report

Dwayne Bravo interview

'My club is more organised than WICB'

Jul 19, 2009: Dwayne Bravo says the board's unprofessionalism, its inability to improve the quality of first-class cricket, and the lack of facilities are holding West Indies back

Crisis in the West Indies

West Indies shouldn't go down the Zimbabwe road

Jul 15, 2009: Australia, New Zealand and Zimbabwe have all gone through disagreements between board and players that have led to strikes and threatened strikes. There are certain similarities with the current West Indies crisis

West Indies contracts row

Nothing short of a disgrace

Jul 15, 2009: What solution do we have for the chronic blindness on both sides to the reality of the increasing irrelevance of West Indies cricket?

Bangladesh in West Indies 2009

The origins of the issue

Jul 9, 2009: Cricinfo looks into the crisis among the West Indies players which have led to a second-string team taking on Bangladesh in the first Test at St Vincent

West Indies contracts row

Five years and counting

Jul 9, 2009: Cricinfo takes a look at the history of contract rows

Mashrafe Mortaza

A pace odyssey

Jul 8, 2009: Bangladesh's new captain retains the exuberant spirit that marked him as a talent to watch, and he wants his team-mates to play the same way

West Indies cricket

Gayle in charge for now

Jul 5, 2009: Now that he has stayed on as captain, Gayle has the chance to break the mould.