Chris Gayle is back as the West Indies captain but Tony Becca, writing in the Jamaica Gleaner, wonders what happened to Ramnaresh Sarwan?

By removing Sarwan as the captain of the team without giving him a fair chance to prove himself, the selectors and the board have once again demonstrated one of the reasons why West Indies cricket is still, after so many, many years, languishing at number eight in both the Test and one-day versions of the game.

In the Trinidad Express BC Pires interviews Colin Borde, the new manager of the West Indies side.

There is no connection between youngsters in their twenties and the “West Indies”, writes Peter O' Connor in Trinidad's Newsday. What we have now is Trinis and Jamaicans and Bajans, being asked to subjugate their newly learned patriotism to a bygone West Indies.