What a wonderful weekend this past one has been for West Indies cricket. First, our Women’s team secured its qualification for the 2022 World Cup semifinal. Then, to compound the enjoyment of that occurrence, the West Indies Men’s Test team created history and secured a 1-0 series victory against England becoming the first-ever holders of the newly minted Richards – Botham Trophy.The series victory over England will now be joyously celebrated by West Indies cricket fans all over the world. Equally and deservedly so by captain Kraigg Brathwaite and his entire team.Conceivably also even more so by the team’s beleaguered Phil Simmons-led coaching staff, which had borne the brunt of criticisms for the West Indies’ highly unenviable record of results in its most recent Test Series. Before the England series, and in the now almost three and a half years since his appointment as West Indies Head Coach, Phil Simmons and his key assistants, the respective batting and bowling coaches Monty Desai and Roddy Estwick, had endured some most unflattering results in all three of international cricket’s current formats. In Tests, considered by most to be the most important of the three formats, the West Indies under Simmons’ charge had won just three, drawn four and lost a whopping nine of its 16 matches played before the recently concluded 1-0 victorious series against England.Simmons and his coaching cadre have received more than their fair share of the blame for the many failures associated with such dismal previous results. Having done so they must now in all fairness be similarly accredited with at least some of the praise for the many collective and individual performances that led to the West Indies’ most welcome series victory.