The job spec might more realistically have spelled out terms for a saviour rather than a captain, because that was what the West Indies Board was looking for when they appointed Carl Hooper as captain in March 2001

For as many people who saw the ICC Champions Trophy victory for the West Indies as evidence that the team had reached the critical turnaround, there is an equivalent number who thought it another painful flash in the pan

It is alarming that the most powerful cricket community in the West Indies does not have some sort of succession plan

On this Saturday of brilliant sunshine, a fire raged through the downtown shopping centre of Port of Spain

Amid the quarrels and hard positions adopted by the parties directly involved in the current dispute in West Indian cricket, there has been the growing voice of a party indirectly connected to the details, but central nonetheless

Amid the quarrels and hard positions adopted by the parties directly involved in the current dispute in West Indian cricket, there has been the growing voice of a party indirectly connected to the details, but central nonetheless

At the heart of the current contretemps unravelling around West Indiescricket lurk some deeply-shadowed issues that might still tell us wherecricket has come internationally as a profession in a globalised world

Australian Darren Holder has resigned after seven months as coaching manager for the West Indies Cricket Board

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the West Indian vice captain, has had his home flooded after torrential rains deluged Guyana, causing millions of dollars in damage

After two days of meetings in Barbados, the directors of the West Indies Cricket Board are no closer to resolving two long-standing issues on separate matters

Ebullient

Pinnacles and troughs featured heavily on the West Indian cricket landscape in 2004

Ordinarily, a whitewashed team could reasonably expect that its leaderwould be pressured to resign

The match turned twice, both times when Brian Lara was given out

When he first appeared on the regional scene, it triggered the kind of buzz one associates with the coming of a messiah or a prodigal son

It would not have come as too much of a surprise that Sir Viv Richards is no longer chairman of selectors for the West Indies Cricket Board

Such a record

Vaneisa Baksh on the dampened spirits that have marred the one-day leg of England's Caribbean tour, and how it might impact on the 2007 World Cup

Vaneisa Baksh on the man who kept West Indian pride alive