Clive Lloyd leaves no doubt over where he stands on Twenty20 cricket. As West Indies were trounced by an innings inside three days in the two Sachin Tendulkar farewell Tests in India in November 2013, the captain through the glory days of the 1980s commented that they "looked drunk on Twenty20".


West Indies' Sheldon Cottrell is clean bowled on Day Three of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on December 19. Pic/Getty Images 

Last week, as new chairman of selectors, Lloyd contended that Twenty20 had "messed up West Indies cricket". Playing Tests for West Indies, he said, no longer seemed a paramount goal for players. There are obvious reasons. Players can read the certain signs that Test cricket for West Indies is in its last throes, a condition evident in the results over the past two decades and in the markedly dwindling attendances. The upshot is that they regard Twenty20 as the game of the future. For some, if not all, it is also undoubtedly a matter of money and how much of it they can make in the two vastly different versions.