Tony Cozier

“A raft of post-mortems has inevitably followed yet it remains difficult to foresee where to next for West Indies cricket.

By inadvertent, yet timely coincidence, the directors of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) hold their quarterly meeting in St Lucia on December 12 and 13, in the middle of the first Test against Australia in a series long written off as embarrassingly one-sided.

SIX WEEKS after the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) suspended him as head coach for “inappropriately commenting” on the selection of the ODI squad for the tour of Sri Lanka, Phil Simmons finally laid out his case last week.

By Tony Cozier   ONE conclusion is clear from the West Indies squad chosen for its forthcoming tour of Australia.

YET another effort has been made to revive long suffering West Indies cricket.

By Tony Cozier NOTHING is as it seems in West Indies cricket.

For all its global hype, ‘Back to the Future Day’ last Wednesday might just have escaped your attention.

By Tony Cozier As hope continues to rapidly fade for the revival of West Indies cricket, indeed for its very future, a series 53 years ago offers a glimmer that all is not yet necessarily lost.

ON their four previous tours of Sri Lanka, the West Indies have been blighted by one setback or another.

Stephen Camacho, the longest serving secretary/chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the last Test player in the position, died at his home in Antigua yesterday after a long battle with cancer.

Andy Roberts posed a pertinent question in the aftermath of Phil Simmons’ suspension as West Indies coach.

It was a bomb waiting to detonate, wreaking more damage to West Indies cricket that, after two decades of collapse, can hardly withstand any more.

By Tony Cozier   It has become increasingly evident that the Caribbean’s two new, high-profile franchise tournaments, the West Indies Cricket Board’s first-class Professional Cricket League (PCL) and the privately financed and organised T20 Caribbean Premier League (CPL), cannot comfortably coexist.

THE late, renowned British sports columnist Ian Wooldridge once told me he was perplexed by how a group of separate, miniscule former British colonies scattered across hundreds of miles of water, from Guyana on the South American mainland to Jamaica in the northern Caribbean, could produce such a profusion of great players to unite into such powerful teams.

By Tony Cozier   AS was eventually inevitable, Jason Holder has had the West Indies Test captaincy added to the ODI responsibility unexpectedly placed on him in January for the series in South Africa and the subsequent World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

By Tony Cozier   The astonishing fluctuations in the on-going Ashes series have defied even the most qualified observers to explain the inexplicable.

Renowned for its passion for cricket and its penchant for revelry, there was no more appropriate location for a T20 tournament than the West Indies.

By Tony Cozier The topsy-turvy cricketing life of Denesh Ramdin has taken another back flip.

By Tony Cozier   IT was inevitable that the current Ashes series, literally now in full swing in Cardiff, should have been preceded by an exultant outpouring of nostalgia from one side.

AFTER Australia’s lop-sided victories over the West Indies in the two Tests in Dominica and Jamaica earlier this month, a foreboding headline appeared in the Melbourne Age over a piece by its chief sports columnist, Greg Baum.