Cricket's momentous happenings in the other parts of the planet have largely passed the West Indies by. Preoccupied by their own habitual infighting, the latest involving the board and the relevant governments and the suspension and reinstatement, of new head coach Phil Simmons, the initial day-night Test match in Adelaide, widely hailed as a triumph and the likely saviour of the enfeebled traditional format, received scant attention in the media.


A general view of the first day-night Test match between Australia and New Zealand played at the Adelaide Oval last month. Pic/Getty Images

So too with increasing proposals for four-day Tests and England's decision to experimentally tinker with one of the oldest traditions in the game for next season's county championship, offering the captain of the visiting team the choice of bowling first or tossing for the right to bat.