Revolutions take a long time coming. Except on celluloid, dramatic changes don’t take place in a jiffy. They are a slow burn until they aren’t, until a tipping point is reached, until people can’t take it anymore.

West Indies cricket is desperately hoping for a revolution. Slow burn? Doesn’t matter. Just let the process start.

Truth to tell, it isn’t just those in the Caribbean that are hoping for a sustained change of cricketing fortunes. The entire landscape of the sport would love to see West Indies, free-spirited West Indies, attacking, aggressive, exhilarating West Indies, expressing themselves with nonchalance and joie de vivre, both once their calling cards but which have now gone almost entirely out of circulation.

What must Sir Garfield Sobers be going through now, reflecting o

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