Given the lucrative contracts open to them, leading West Indians are unavoidably playing too much for their own good and, by obvious extension, the good of the West Indies cricket. Paradoxically, they are also playing too little.
For Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine, it has been virtually non-stop through the first seven months of 2013. So it would have been for Marlon Samuels but for a couple of unrelated injuries but he has returned to mount the merry-go-round again.
Pollard, Narine and several other West Indians added the Bangladesh Premier League in January and
