There's still five matches left on the West Indies visit but the whispers are growing louder: will this mob even win a single game on tour?

So far they have been ordinary. You can't even say they've flattered to deceive because no one was really sure they'd be a quality opposition before they arrived.

The test record hasn't been flash this year, save a fine test win at Leeds, and a series win in Zimbabwe.

They have won just three ODIs out of 16 completed games.

They even got soundly beaten by an inexperienced New Zealand A side in a warm-up one-dayer in Whangarei last weekend.

There's a clutch of young players in the two squads, players of talent but still with much to learn about hard, top level competition.

Take batsman Shimron Hetmyer and fast bowler Miguel Cummins.

Hetmyer is a young man with immense talent, a player who led the West Indies to the under 19 World Cup title.

He'll be around a long time but his batting discipline has to improve.

Cummins was, along with opener Kraigg Brathwaite, the pick of the test squad, full of energy and effort.

WI usually wins when Holder performs with bat and ball.

When he takes multiple wickets he sets back the opposition and when he scores heavy he aids in putting up a competitive score.

But when Holder doesn't perform with bat and ball he puts tremendous pressure on the team.

The Writer made an interesting comment when he wrote that the WI have a " weak center ", they give up easily. I guess they need a motivating cheerleader like the previous captain, Sammy.

This 50-overs team is so rubbish it's not going to win anything, regardless of the XI. So, we might as well give the other players in the squad an outing for the dead rubber match.

Evin Lewis
Chadwick Walton
Kyle Hope
Shai Hope
Shimron Hetmyer
Jason Holder
Rovman Powell or Ronsford Beaton (don't care which)
Ashley Nurse
Nikita Miller
Kesrick Williams
Sheldon Cottrell

Isn't it strange that while the quality of cricket is getting better everywhere else in the cricketing world, in the West Indies it is getting worse? Is it that we don't have the skill and physical attributes, or is it a lack of intelligence?

In reply to rhatidCourtney Browne is the problem. Who told him once again that Bajan cricket is back bone of West Indies cricket? the captain, has completely lost the plot when it comes to field placings. Why went into a test match with out a spinner, just because you see a green top. And with your spinner who won the test in Zimbabwe, you had him on the bench. Gabriel, don't know where to put a ball on the pitch. He is experienced enough to know where the crease is.

Dead rubber bully Gayle is in the team..so, it is possible..