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West Indies cricket making steady progress

In case you missed it, Cricket West Indies' (CWI) hierarchy has sent out a summary list of their first-year achievements for public viewing based on their 10 point plan when the administration assumed office. Overall, I would give them a mark of 8 out of 10. It will be difficult to go through each aspect of their 10 point plan, so let us look at a few positives and negatives with West Indies cricket since their tenure began.

Let's start with the World Cup in 2019 when they had just assumed office. I wrote in my weekly column a little over a year ago on April 11th, 2019, “the thought process by many (and I understand that could be the plan of the new hierarchy) is the hiring of a regional coach to replace Richard Pybus”. I felt then, and I still do believe it was a mistake to replace Pybus. I gave my reasons why I felt Pybus should have been retained and poor Floyd Reifer had absolutely nothing to gain from taking over the team for the 2019 World Cup in the UK and the home series vs India in August - one month following the Windies' exit from the World Cup.