Time running out for Kieran Powell

Tony Cozier

IN normal circumstances, Kieran Powell might have been with the West Indies World Cup team in Australia and New Zealand, as he had been on the tour of New Zealand just over a year earlier.

Applied to West Indies cricket, normal is not an adjective that immediately springs to mind.

An ocean away, the tall, elegant left-handed opener from Nevis, at 26 in the prime of a sportsman’s life,