Time To End It All?

While the sports media around the region celebrate Trinidad & Tobago's football success, the cricket headlines around the world continue to apply words like "joke" and "pitiful" to the West Indies cricket team. Cricket365's Peter May even wonders if it is time to draw the curtain on the West Indies' Test status, saying "surely we are reaching that point where ending it all would be a kindness".

Tony Cozier's analysis of the first day in Hobart is predictable, and he rather sadly notes that "decisions seem, somehow, to go only one way with Lara".

Cayman NetNews reports that Cable & Wireless continues its regional cricket campaign with Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Browne presenting the Cayman Islands Cricket Association with their C&W-sponsored 'flex pitch" this weekend. The two players have a full agenda over the weekend as they appear in a variety of social engagements around the Caymans.

Meanwhile, arch-rivals Digicel relate the adventures of their contest winners Muzon Hoyte and Duranor Child, who were flown to Australia to watch the team, and spend some time in the nets bowling to Brian Lara. The website blithely mentions that the two "witnessed the Windies team performing in Brisbane". Did anyone else?

Dailies everywhere report that Chris Gayle will face 'minor' surgery for his heart condition, which forced him to leave the wicket for treatment on Thursday.