Roger Alton Roger Alton

Cricket needs the West Indies

Plus the awful guff written about Leicester City and what Sergio ­Parisse must not get away with

issue 20 February 2016

In the north of Antigua, just by the medical school, is a neat little cricket ground. It was a bit overgrown and bedraggled when I drove past the other day, but the small stand was still there, the changing rooms, the peeling scoreboard, and the sails of the kite-surfers dancing skittishly out on the Caribbean.

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