A few years ago, Sir Garry Sobers berated the West Indies' selectors for what he graphically, but accurately, described as the futility of recycling failures

To the backdrop of noisy, happy, flag-waving celebrations, the West Indies completed yet another emphatic victory over India at Kensington Oval in the third Cable & Wireless Test yesterday, their seventh in eight Tests between the teams on the ground

The third Cable & Wireless Test went through a succession of contortions on the third day yesterday but it would have taken the elasticity of an Indian yoga master to have turned it on its head

India found themselves immediately enmeshed in Kensington Oval's age-old jinx on the opening day of the third Test against the West Indies yesterday

Encouraged by, if not fully satisfied with, their collective performance in the second Cable & Wireless Test, the West Indies are set to retain their once prescribed formula of four fast bowlers for the crucial third, starting at Kensington tomorrow

For a change, the Indian cricketers won't be fazed by what they see in the middle at Kensington Oval this morning

Carl Hooper has said the West Indies have to guard against making wholesale changes just because we've lost a Test match

PORT-OF-SPAIN - There was drama all the way through that drained the emotions and left finger nails chewed to the quick

THE West Indies desperately clawed their way back into contention on the third day of the second Test yesterday but, even amidst the euphoria of dismissing Sachin Tendulkar for a fourth-ball duck, their grip was never more than tenuous

Carl Hooper put a lifetime of underachievement finally and firmly behind him yesterday, appropriately on the ground he has always called home

Carl Hooper compiled what he understandably described afterwards as the most satisfying hundred of his long, turbulent career yesterday

The two most exciting and beguiling cricketers of their time, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar, are on opposite sides for the first time in five years

Carl Hooper yesterday set out an upbeat and clearcut objective for his West Indies team on the eve of the first Test of the Cable & Wireless Series against India

The continuing vagaries of air communication in the region left the West Indies cricket team short-handed yesterday

Short of genuine class, the West Indies selectors have depended mainly on current form in choosing their squad for the first of five Tests in the Cable & Wireless Series against India, starting at Bourda in Guyana on Thursday

It should be the high point of the season, a centre-spread, full-colour ad for West Indies cricket

There are a couple of West Indian cricketers in Port-of-Spain this morning, at the preliminary training camp for the upcoming Indian series, who must have wondered whether they would ever be in such company again

There has been a sudden surge of optimism in West Indies cricket, a word all but obliterated from its vocabulary

Carlisle Best wants the pitch at Kensington Oval dug up

Through his varied lifetime, Wes Hall has come to know what pressure and responsibility are all about