All things being relative, these past couple of months have been encouraging for West Indies cricket.
For understandable reasons, their achievements in all versions and at all levels, have been no more than a blip on the game’s global radar.
They have naturally had to concede attention to the sensational Caribbean athletes at the Olympics and their swag of medals and to the current battle for cricket supremacy between England and South Africa.
Even then, Yohan Blake, one of the most prominent of Jamaica’s string of speedy sprinters in London, was keen to reveal to the assembled media after he had flashed in behind his lightning countryman