West Indies suffer another defeat and hitting new nadir every day. Well nadir w.r.t Windies seems to a NP-Complete problem. If Bennett King had accepted the coaching offer would they have hit this low? Probably not. Getting a foreign coach might do a world of good. The other great masters of criminal negligence, Pakistan, hopefully are back redeeming themselves with Bob Woolmer as their coach.
Writing these reminds me of those titanic series played between Pakistan and West Indies in the late 80's. These matches were classics but sadly never find a mention in cricketing literature like the ones involving England or Australia. For someone who was getting to know cricket at that time it was a thrill to watch these two sides play each other. I could watch only the one dayers they played in Sharjah and no Test matches at all. Satellite television was coming little late! But as a cricket crazy kid in India I followed their matches by reading The Hindu. The one test I remember was at PoS in 1988. The Pakistanis had almost chased down the large 4th innings target with Javed making a century. The last over was real seat of the edge thriller with Sir Viv getting that combative keeper Yousuf first ball. With the Windies needing just the last wicket to square the series, Abdul Qadir played out the last 5 balls from Sir Viv to secure a draw. The final test was another classic with Pakistanis unable to land the sucker punch and Winston Benjamin played his innings of his life to help the Windies square the series. Sadly, Imran Khan's dream of winning a series against the Windies remained unfulfilled. Windies would not be beaten in a series for the next seven years. Their glorious reign ending when the Waugh twins joined together famously in Kingston.