Where are the promising West Indies batsmen?

Jermaine Blackwood
For those everywhere who belong to the extended informal West Indies Cricket Admiration Society, the loss to Ireland in the World Cup opener and Friday’s trouncing at the hands of AB de Villiers and his merciless South Africans would have been as depressing as it is for West Indians themselves.
The constantly repeated cliché that “world cricket needs a strong West Indies” is based on fond memories of the unique brand of excitement provided by their great teams and players of the past. They filled the stands everywhere they went, once with 90,800 Australians on the Saturday of a Test at the MCG and close to 100,000 Indians whenever they played at Eden Gardens; through the 1980s they were not only widely popular but unbeatable. Continue reading