Figuring out situations in life is often akin to watching a huge fire producing mountains of billowing smoke; you have to wait until the flames die down and, particularly, until the smoke blows away before you can get a clear picture of whatever destruction took place. When the fire is blazing, all one can do is speculate on the damage; only when the smoke is gone are you able to understand what happened.
The current back and forth in cricket over the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and its various shenanigans serves as an example. With the prodigious amount of smoke blowing in recent years around that subject, public and private, one is left confused in the raging back and forth by conflicting opinions of the true situation, but on a recent Sportsmax TV programme, Wavell Hinds, head of the West Indies Players Association
