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and Sri Lanka went to the wire to get there as well

for as long as I've followed the game the West Indies have been there and been a huge threat 
they've almost fallen right off the cliff

Their last final was 1983

mate there are 3 full Australian sides' worth of cricketers who had their careers ruined by great West Indian teams - wonder what they think now seeing how far the slide has been
imagine what Vivi Richards & Clive Lloyd are thinking

Yes the sad decline of a former powerhouse of the game. It was embarassing watching their test team get flogged by Australia last summer and they also failed to qualify for the T20 world cup as well. The disconnect between the Windies board of control and the players has been eating away at the standard for many years and now they have hit rock bottom. Also the inter island rivalries of Barbados, Jamaica etc are accentuated when the team is going through a bad time.
Don't know how they are going to get out of this. Scotland even flogged them FFS!

will there be a total split and the islands go alone 
 

Financially I dont think they could afford that Southerner,