Time for a bold decision

Kirk Edwards

By Cosmo Hamilton

It is the year 2012. It is a leap year. It is a year when the WICB should take a leap of faith as they ‘drive for five’ – a quest for a position among the top five in the ICC rankings among the world’s best cricket nations. West Indies cricket in its long and storied history is still sustained by the legacy of the greats of post war vintage like Weekes, Worrell and Walcott, and the teams of the 50’s and 60’s of Sobers, Kanhai, and Gibbs and Hall and Griffith, and those immortalized in the recent DVD – ‘Fire in Babylon’ – the likes of Lloyd, Richards, Greenidge, and Haynes, and Holding and Roberts.

But these are not the good old days when West Indies not only ruled the roost but dominated the international cricket world and turned the game on its head, where cricket for a considerable period