The West Indies Cricket Board has appointed and fired their men’s team captains so frequently that on average, a captaincy appointment lasts for only about two years.

Twenty20 is the relatively new cricket format where West Indies cricket, and its players, currently enjoys a modicum of international success. But the very success in Twenty20 has made this format one of the biggest risk factors to achieving overall West Indies success in all the current formats of international play in the long term.…