There will be life after this massacre of West Indies cricket. Because to-date, in the knife-wielding in Coronation Market, women and children it seems, are being spared, but not fathers and brothers.

Knives not already drawn are being sharpened at the anvil. And when Ireland upset the applecart, the repairman was asked to quicken things up. Losing to an upstart, will do that to an already anguished Caribbean. The washing tub can only hold so much. It needs to be emptied now, before Pakistan come calling. Because, if the West Indies were to be then, two-down – which they might well be – then, there will be blood in the streets. Every passing day, more salt seems to be pouring into a wide-open wound.    

The West Indies tour to India, abandoned last October, is still a fresh slab of meat on the butcher’s block. "How shall it be apportioned?" the butchers are still asking. And this is one lump of meat that nobody is anxious to get an extra serving of.

All three partiers were at fault, was the fact that the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) commissioned group of fact-finders, found. Not satisfied, some want to see more heads than those of just Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, and to a lesser extent – of Darren Sammy’s, hanging from the bridge.

And as to why only these three heads are swinging, the jury is still out.

Michael Holding, the former West Indies fast bowler, now a persuasive and strong-opinioned commentator, has been saying, there’s more to it than just a lack of performance – a position his former West Indies captain, and chairman of the WICB selection committee Clive Lloyd is holding strong to. "We just felt like the time was right, to go in a new direction," has been the selector-chairman’s public position. And of late, neither is a former West Indies captain Brian Lara, buying it. "We shot ourselves in the foot," is Lara’s recent take.  

But, is Lloyd’s public pronouncement as he insists, in cadence with his heart? Some, including the former fast bowler, are thinking not. And is there a tip-off? Because in the past, situations where Lloyd has expressed his, "disappointment," have been analogous to when one Gordon Greenidge used to say, he’s "batting injured."

Because bowlers the world over, knew what that meant. When Greenidge said he was "batting injured," and began to limp, he was at his most dangerous. Similarly, when Lloyd says he’s "disappointed," then may those who `disappointed’ him, watch out.

Might those who have caused Lloyd disappointed, now feeling his wrath? Those who think so, might well be onto something.