Otis Gibson and Courtney Browne have spent as much time over the past month in Sri Lanka experiencing the effects of global warming on what should be the end of the annual monsoon season as on what their principal mission was meant to be.

At the end of another day abbreviated by the ever present rain under miserable, grey skies, head coach Gibson and travelling selector Browne had lost a cumulative 625 overs of the allocated minimum of the 1,460 overs they should have had for their assessments…..