If Gayle and Sarwan return to the West Indies Test side, can they provide their inexperienced young team-mates the guidance they themselves did not receive?

It's all down to how he gets along with the captain and coach, and whether he can fit into the team's new ethic

Darren Sammy may not have the best numbers but he is a man steadily improving while handling a difficult job

The West Indies coach does not expect extraordinary results in England, but he also doesn't expect his charges to embarrass him

Five of Shivnarine Chanderpaul's finest Test innings

Like Lara, most of his runs and hundreds have come in defeat; unlike him, the manner in which Chanderpaul makes them gets him overlooked

Injuries apart, Adrian Barath has failed to live up to expectations mostly because of poor judgement on the field

West Indies need to forget about their struggles against Australia in recent years and focus on the possibilities available to them in this series

Board-player relations were at their most acrimonious during Dinanath Ramnarine's time as the WIPA chief, but he was more than just the trouble-maker he was made out to be

The tie in the one-day series against Australia may be a glimmer of hope but they aren't quite out of the woods

The player with the long rap sheet and the man in the dressing-room make Morton seem almost like a character of the Jekyll and Hyde sort

How Chris Gayle responds to the WICB's latest move will show how interested he is in playing for West Indies