| The inconsistency of the West Indies team has been | | | | expect to win. The time has come when the team |
| the main topic of discussion, when West Indies Cricket | | | | needs to be together for seven to eight months of the |
| fans look at their team's chances going into the ICC | | | | year as opposed to what currently exist. |
| Champions Trophy. However it seems that the | | | | A brilliant individual performance can win a cricket |
| planners of international cricket might have done West | | | | match but cricket is still a team sport, all must be done |
| Indies a favour, when they schedule the DLF cup and | | | | in a planned an organised way to allow the team to |
| set new guidelines, which forced the West Indies to | | | | gel as a unit. This can only happen if the members of |
| have to qualify for the Champions Trophy despite | | | | the team are allowed to train together, plan together. |
| being defending champions. | | | | The recently concluded DLF Tri Series Cup was a |
| Had not for these occurrences, the cricket | | | | perfect example of lack of planning and team |
| administrators in the Caribbean may have dispatch the | | | | preparation by the West Indies administrators and total |
| West Indies team with out any preparation to the sub | | | | dependence on individual brilliance to pull the team |
| continent, a mere 24 hours before the champions | | | | through. |
| trophy was due to begin. With the DLF cup, a training | | | | In the recently concluded DLF Cup the success of the |
| camp and the new qualifying guidelines the West Indies | | | | team suffered becaused of a number of batting |
| has had four weeks on the Sub Continent to | | | | collapses. This must have brought home the point that |
| acclimatise and get use to the conditions there before | | | | brilliant individual performances is not the answer but a |
| the Champions Trophy begins. | | | | greater team effort with both bowling and batting |
| When the West Indies last won the Champions | | | | partnerships. The last four to five weeks on the sub |
| Trophy in 2004, defeating England in an exciting final at | | | | continent should have allowed the team to start |
| the Oval. One area overlooked for the cohesiveness | | | | working as a unit. |
| and ultimate success of the team was the ICC cricket | | | | In the recently concluded DLF Cup the success of the |
| schedule. By the time the Champions Trophy was | | | | team suffered becaused of a number of batting |
| played in October the West Indies who were earlier on | | | | collapses. This must have brought home the point that |
| tour in England had already spend eight weeks in | | | | a brilliant individual performance is not the answer but a |
| English conditions. | | | | greater team effort consisting of both bowling and |
| Despite having performed significantly better in the | | | | batting partnerships. The last four to five weeks the |
| second half of both Test and One day International | | | | windies has been on the sub continent should have |
| series in recent times. The administrators seem not to | | | | allowed the team to start working as a unit and given |
| have grasped the fact that we can no longer select a | | | | them a better chance of recapturing the trophy. |
| team a couple days ahead of a tournament and | | | | |