No need to cheerlead Windies effort

Orwin Davidson, writing in Stabroek News, argues for caution in the confidence and optimism generated by West Indies' impressive performance in Australia. The West Indies team, he says, has been rebuilding for close to 15 years now and for it to take that long to rebound implies there are plenty of faults inherent in the system.

The worst thing that can accrue from those reactions from this Test series is to lull the West Indies Cricket Board regime into a false sense of security, into believing it can relax and do nothing to speed up the development of its young players, thinking those encouraging displays will blossom by themselves. Just like previous administrations did, when they expected world class players to fall from the sky when the Dream Team of the 1980s ended its superlative run on top of the world.