For a time last week, it seemed as if the two most influential individuals in West Indies cricket had come to the end of the line

Even with Brian Lara's late inclusion, the West Indies team for this summer's England tour remains filled with young and inexperienced players

Georgetown - Javed Miandad is upset over the practice facilities which his Pakistan team have been given on their West Indies tour

Georgetown - True to form, Pakistan's build-up to the Test series that starts at Bourda tomorrow is shrouded in mystery and intrigue

While the big wigs of the International Cricket Council (ICC) were grappling with the problems of match-fixing and palm-greasing in London yesterday, the cricket committee of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) was dealing with less sordid, more

Brian Lara turned 31 yesterday with his immediate future still shadowed in doubt

Depressingly short of batting of genuine class and experience, the West Indies selectors have fast-tracked Shivnarine Chanderpaul back into the team for the first Test against Pakistan, starting at Bourda on Friday

Port-Of-Spain - The West Indies selectors have already settled on one new player for the first Test against Pakistan, starting at Bourda, Friday week

Yet again, we have had the embarrassment of a visiting captain complaining about the lack of adequate practice facilities in the West Indies

The pleasing transformation of the West Indies team continues

We had known all along that something was burning

After the euphoria of last Monday's Great Escape at the Queen's Park Oval, stark reality returned to West Indies cricket after two days of the second Test against Zimbabwe

Port-Of-Spain - The age of miracles is not over for West Indies cricket, not as long as Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh are around to inspire them

Port-Of-Spain - After two days of the first Test they have ever played against the only opponents they can justifiably claim to rank below them at present in the world game, the West Indies are in familiar strife

West Indies cricket is still reeling after yet another of the internal upheavals that have repeatedly rocked it to its very foundations

Throughout the 135 years of its existence, from that first rustic match between the then British colonies of Barbados and Demerara at the Bay Pasture in 1865 to the present day of lack of professionalism, commercialism and globalisation, West Indies

Every day we keep our fingers tightly crossed, look to the heavens and pray that there is some sign of light at the end of the dark tunnel in which West Indies cricket has been lost for so long

Rudi Webster would no doubt find some way to put a positive spin on it but the returns from the current Busta Cup are desperate enough to test even his psychological ingenuity

The West Indies squad, complete with new manager, coach, psychologist and physiotherapist, are to assemble for a week-long camp prior to the international home season, starting with the first Test against Zimbabwe in Port-of-Spain on March 16

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced nothing