Wither West Indies cricket
Despite hosting the World Cup, West Indies cricket is struggling to fight off a decline
Andrew McGlashan
25-Feb-2013
Despite hosting the World Cup, West Indies cricket is struggling to fight off a decline. No longer is it the first-choice sport in the Caribbean where football shirts are as common as cricket shirts. In The Independent Angus Fraser tries to work out what has gone wrong.
Nobody with a genuine love for cricket will take any satisfaction from the current plight of the West Indian cricket team. There were aspects of the cricket they played in the mid-Eighties, when an attack containing four frighteningly fast bowlers was at its most brutal and unforgiving, that were unappealing, but cricket needs a strong and competitive West Indian side because no other team on the planet has the ability to thrill and entertain like they do.
Andrew McGlashan is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo