London: It seems like eons ago since Lord's 100th Test left all who watched it spellbound and eager for more

London: There has never been another cricket match like it

Leeds: The West Indies got bad news and good yesterday

Leeds:It was not so much that the West Indies lost four of their five matches in the triangular NatWest Series as the inconsistency of their cricket that disappointed captain Jimmy Adams

Leeds: After a break of three weeks when the ball was white, the overs and field positions restricted and they wore maroon and green, the West Indies had an unsatisfactory return to the traditional long game here yesterday

At last, a win for the West Indies, dramatically snatched with three wickets in the last over when another defeat seemed certain

London - Michael Holding has an encouraging message for the doubters

Chester-Le-Street- The West Indies have reached a stage, all too familiar on successive overseas tours, where they seem incapable of winning a match

London : Jimmy Adams has identified the crisis that has suddenly overtaken his West Indies team as mind over matter, but the 'performance consultant' previously employed to deal with such problems is no longer around

London-This was more like it but, through no fault of their own, it still amounted to very little

London-The West Indies return to Lord's today for their first match against England since their shock defeat in the second Test at the same venue just over a week ago with their shaken confidence in need of urgent restoration

Bristol-It is far too early to pessimistically proclaim an end to the West Indies revival under Jimmy Adams and the new management team

London-The month-long break prior to the third Test that accommodates the triangular series of One-Day Internationals has evoked contrasting reactions from England and the West Indies

London-Jimmy Adams regards his first defeat as West Indies captain as a challenge for him and his team

London - Both Brian Lara and Sir Viv Richards yesterday urged Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh to keep on bowling through the West Indies tour to Australia later this year

Lord's-For once, and for all their customorary endeavour, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh couldn't quite complete another rescue mission for the West Indies again foisted on them by their weak batsmen

In all the great matches this celebrated old ground has hosted in more than 200 years, no day could have been more sensational, intense and unpredictable as the second of its 100th Test yesterday

The West Indies twice had England just where they wanted them only to drop their guard and squander their significant early advantage in the final session of the opening day of the second Test at Lord's yesterday

London-The West Indies start their 123rd Test match against England this morning against the happy coincidence of a backdrop of history and tradition

London-As England would have it, their innings defeat inside three days in the first Test at Edgbaston was caused by their loss of the toss and the behaviour of the pitch