Whither withering Windies?

Fri, Jan 3, '14 by SHEILA RAMPERSAD

Wishing the West Indies better fortunes in 2014 at the moment seems just that—a wish; it is one that is unlikely to be realised. If, as Clive Lloyd concluded, the team is drunk on T20 cricket, they must be drinking bad babash for in a 50-over game reduced to 21, the team limped to 124 at a run rate of 5.90 an over; this was their response to record-setting ODI centuries from Corey Anderson and Jesse Ryder that allowed the Kiwis to amass a staggering 283—a run rate of 13.47 an over.

And this was in just one outing of the ten scheduled in the land of Fernleaf butter and Anchor cheese.