When u was old enough I read about the great WI teams under Sir Frank Worrell and sometimes after Clive Lloyd. Then there was Sir Garfield Sobers, Rohan Kanai, Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Christopher Gayle. None of these are my countrymen yet we all celebrated their success as a West Indian community. They all had something to prove.

During that period, before our cricket descended into the doldrums, the cause was extrinsic. Now it is from within - the haterz and the tribalists. But not all. The ICC has disadvantaged our cricket with its payment scheme more than any other country.

Sammy, the rest of the team management and this group of players have a point to prove.

The haterz are from within and without