Tony Cozier compares Brian Lara's exit with that of Viv Richards's in 1991

Tony Cozier reflects on the mess that is West Indies World Cup campaign

More than half-way through the tournament and with their chances of advancing to the semi-finals diminishing after three heavy defeats in the Super Eights round, the West Indies players finally got clearance yesterday to sign their contracts for the World

The lamentable cricket that has left the West Indies all but out of their own World Cup at the half-way point demands urgent investigation and attention, writes Tony Cozier

Tony Cozier on empty grounds and a non Caribbean approach to ticketing

Tony Cozier notices that the prelude to the 2007 World Cup has hasn't been an auspicious one

THE last time a West Indian cricketer was entangled in the web of match-fixing, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) took an inordinately long time to mount an independent investigation

Six weeks away from the first World Cup, Ramdin's struggles in both departments and the dearth of realistic alternatives are major causes for concern, writes Tony Cozier

Tony Cozier tracks the preperation of the pitches for the Kensington Oval

It is the first time in the game's long history that a Test match has been forfeited but Pakistan's protest against an umpiring decision at The Oval on Sunday that cost them the final Test against England and was not the first of its kind

Tony Howard is pleased with the overall attitude of the team and by several individual performances

Tony Cozier reviews India's tour of the West Indies

In spite of his position as the most identifiable and potentially most influential individual in West Indies cricket, Brian Lara has seldom been inclined to publicly air his views on the many complex and diverse issues that affect it.

Lara is keen to play more ODIs with the World Cup in mind

The West Indian revival in the first Cable & Wireless Test, so encouragingly mounted by Brian Lara, Daren Ganga and Devon Smith on Saturday, unravelled within the first hour of the fourth day yesterday to the familiar accompaniment of tumbling lower

The West Indies selectors delivered a significant vote of no-confidence in Mehendra Nagamootoo yesterday, omitting the leg-spinner from the squad for the second Test against India in spite of a bare pitch seemingly tailored for the Indian spinners

The resolve, the hint of personal adversity and the sight of Australians stirred in Brian Lara's consciousness in equal measure once more on the third day of the first Test at Bourda yesterday

Already overburdened by the perennial controversies that have become as attached as a Siamese twin, West Indian cricket was thrown into further confusion Monday, three days before the first Test of the Cable & Wireless Series against Australia

JOHANNESBURG - The entire Caribbean must unite if the 2007 cricket World Cup is to be the organisational and financial success it can be, Barbados Cricket Association president Stephen Alleyne has forewarned

A few reflections and the encouragement of Sir Viv Richards have banished Carl Hooper's blues