Problems to ponder

As sporting humiliations go, the West Indies latest, that ended yesterday with their second loss to India by an innings within three days, was up there with the all-out 54 at Lord’s and the two-day defeat at Headingley in 2000, the year that they should have celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first Test victory in England.

There have been several others in between; in none was the embarrassment so absolute as yesterday when the Sachin Tendulkar devotees,