Looking at the stereotypes of the 10 Test-playing nations

#8 West Indies

Colour, flair and the Caribbean cricket

Talk of West Indies and the image of smiling faces bereft of any tension springs up. But there is more to West Indies that meets the eye. For a team which dominated World Cricket for 15 years, the downward slide has been a sorry story.

Their recent resurgence especially in T20 has been a joy to say the least and much of the flair and flamboyance which is associated with Caribbean cricket is back to enthral. The music seems to be back and so is the swagger, and it is all fantastic news for the game.

Thus, what is the their stereotype, is it the blaring music or the swagger, is the power game or is it the carefree attitude, I would say it is an amalgamation of all of the above.