West Indies are now the sick old man of world cricket

West Indies are now the sick old man of world cricket. They still have players of rare talent, for sure, but the system that produced perhaps the greatest teams of them all have long since been broken. The members of the last West Indies side to win the World Cup are now old men and are living to see the era they created tarnished and trashed. Bankrupt, divided, shambolic and dispirited, the current WICB may preside over the end days of West Indies cricket as we know it.

I wasn't fortunate enough to see the West Indies play when they were in their prime though I did have the pleasure of attending one day of test cricket in South Africa in 1999 when Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh still led the West Indies attack. I remember hearing some spectators debating which team had the better bowling attack, but I suppose the result of the series answered that question. Then again, as far back as I can remember, I've always felt that the West Indies team was less than the sum of its parts.

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That's really disappointing. I hope they can raise their game when the World Cup gets started.

time to demote this team to associate status.