ICC World Twenty20 - Villain of the day: West Indies Cricket Administration

After a dismal home World Cup, so long in coming, so long in duration, so short in the memory, the West Indies reached what every cricket fan must hope is the nadir of their fortunes with elimination from the World Twenty20 at the earliest opportunity. With the team struggling to put together winning sessions of Test Cricket, the crash-bang of Twenty20 seemed made for the likes of Dwayne Smith and Marlon Samuels, but it wasn't to be.

Whilst the players bear much of the responsibility, the real villains are the administrators who have overseen as precipitous a drop as there has been in world sport: from undisputed Number One to where? It's for the administrators to locate where the Windies are right now and to find a way out of this swamp. And it's for their brothers in what I still think of as cricket's family to help them.

[The Tooting Trumpet]