Windies breakup may herald Test Championship
Future West Indian administrators might just be competent enough to assemble a decent team for World Cups and Twenty20 tournaments
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
Future West Indian administrators might just be competent enough to assemble a decent team for World Cups and Twenty20 tournaments. But in Test cricket their incompetence is now a sorry fact; and it might prove better for all concerned, in the long run, and after a painful separation, if the West Indian territories were to do what Trinidad proposes.
Scyld Berry, writing in the Telegraph, brings the point into context and believes though a Test Championship is great, the only trouble is that it is an idea whose time has not yet come.
Trinidad and Tobago are already talking of going their own way. Yes, it would be a great shame if they did. But only a common culture has held the Anglophone West Indian territories together, and this no longer appears to be strong enough. All other Test teams have been, and are, nation states.