Jimmy Adams: Ex-West Indies skipper coaching Jersey in T20 World Cup qualifiers

Adams’ career took him all around the world – he scored a career-high 208 not out against New Zealand in a Test in 1995.

But since retiring from cricket in 2004 he has seen West Indies become a shadow of the side that he played in, and one that dominated the game in the 1970s and 1980s.

They failed to qualify for the past World Cup and are ranked only above Zimbabwe by the ICC at Test level.

“The game has changed, the world has changed and things change,” says Adams on the state of the game in the Caribbean.

“Before me, Hungary was a world football superpower and Hungary isn’t that anymore, but football still continues to excite and people enjoy it and so on, and cricket won’t be any different.

“If you want to be nostalgic you can say ‘yes it’s been a bit sad watching it’, but the excitement of where world cricket has gone since then, that carries far more weight with me watching how the game has transformed itself through T20 cricket.

“Watching international cricket now, even Test cricket, is so much different than Test cricket in my time and I think that’s that’s something to be celebrated.

“Yes, when I sit down with old geezers my age we reminisce a little bit, but for me there are no tears shed.”