The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket

West Indies have the talent to challenge the top teams

Wed, Oct 15, '14

by COLIN BENJAMIN

Commentary

Living in the era of West Indies cricket's decline has been a frustrating experience for me.

The sense of schadenfreude is always poignant when stories are related by people who saw the great Caribbean players in action from 1960 to 1995. Their pleasure at witnessing those legends is the misfortune of all contemporary West Indies fans. Watching Sir Garfield Sobers' all-round brilliance, Vivian Richards intimidating fast bowlers, Malcolm Marshall outfox batsmen, and Sir Frank Worrell, the first black West Indies captain and cricket statesman, leading the regional side would have completed my life.

Fast-forward to West Indies' World T20 triumph, which signified the first signs of real progress the team and fans have been searching for after 17 years of insipid performance

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