This space has unavoidably become a weekly diary of despair.

With West Indies cricket in constant disarray, it is seldom short of entries. This week’s deals with the appalling state of batting.

It is a topic no doubt previously recorded but it has been further emphasized in first two rounds of the current first-class season. The scores of 39, 113 and 167 and the farce of CCC’s day-and-a-half finish and victory over the Leeward Islands yesterday, as well as the …..