We have to be hopeful that things can improve. It is pretty embarrassing the state that West Indies cricket is in at the moment. We can't put out our best team. At the end of the day, everybody is losing.

We are seeing pretty solid export growth. You are starting to see the U.S. benefit from faster growth in Asia and the rest of the world.

I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.

We had some great individual performances but one of the things we learnt from the English is how to put a game together. They played as a team for the whole five days all series,

As our national anthem played before the match, I looked up and saw him. I knew I was part of a great occasion.

Today he smiled when he referred to my first century there.