Jimmy Adams: Former West Indies captain to coach in T20 World Cup qualifier jersey

Adams’ career took him around the world – he scored a career-high 208 not out against New Zealand in a Test in 1995.

But since retiring from cricket in 2004, he has seen West Indies become a shadow of the team he played for and dominated the game in the 1970s and 1980s.

They failed to qualify for the last World Cup and were ranked above Zimbabwe by the ICC at Test level.

“The game has changed, the world has changed and things have changed,” Adams said of the state of play in the Caribbean.

“Before me, Hungary was a world football superpower and Hungary is not anymore, but football is still going to be exciting and people enjoy it and so cricket will be no different.

“If you want to be nostalgic you can say ‘yeah it’s a bit sad to see’, but the excitement of where world cricket has gone since then, how the game has transformed itself through T20 cricket carries a lot of weight for me.

“Watching international cricket now, even Test cricket, is very different to Test cricket in my time and I think that’s something to celebrate.

“Yes, when I sit with old geezers my age we remember a little, but for me there are no tears.”