Can West Indies build on the positives?
The number one team in Test cricket playing in their home conditions, cold weather and lively pitches are just few of the problems that the West Indies team will encounter on their tour of England
Devashish Fuloria
25-Feb-2013
The number one team in Test cricket playing in their home conditions, cold weather and lively pitches are just few of the problems that the West Indies team will encounter on their tour of England. But under a gritty captain in Darren Sammy, West Indies team is showing a change in attitude, says Tony Cozier in The Trinidad Express.
They are certainly no match for England on paper, they are still to shake off the self doubt created by years of failure on the field and in-fighting off it and their captain continues under relentless pressure to prove his worth as a player. Yet Darren Sammy and his players have demonstrated a constant, refreshing, 100 per cent commitment to their responsibilities. It has not always been so of late.
As the increased, involved crowds in the recent home series against Australia revealed they are winning back the support of those who had become disillusioned with the repeated bickering between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and, not least, by the losses in the preceding four series since the turn of the 21st century in England, the oldest foe.
Devashish Fuloria is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo