Based on what we have seen so far, I believe England can win the historic ICC World T-20 Tournament, here in the Caribbean. This comes on the heels of an interesting tournament thus far. It is indeed wonderful to witness via television the great cricket being played here at home. Most of the games are interesting and competitive, the crowds have been lively and truly Caribbean, the players have been very expressive and from all reports the series is being quite successful.

It becomes common for our West Indies team to whip the minor teams and buckle to the major teams in world cricket. This tournament, the first of its kind on home soil is no exception. Chris Gayle and his men never looked a winning combination. Too much is hinged upon our captain and when he does not deliver, the remaining players are left at sea to fall victim to any worthy opponent.

Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chivnarine Chanderpaul and other frontline batsmen in the team now struggle for dear life to score. Chanderpaul who has done yeoman services throughout his career is seemingly on his last leg, yet no suitable replacement lie in wait to takeover his spot.

Our middle order players in Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard have not performed well in this series even though Pollard's performance is no real surprise.

Our bowling is just about good but nothing special nor persistent enough to spring major surprises. The real problem remains, no suitable replacement for our decent to mediocre players.

The Guyana leg of the tour was a shameful experience. The world knows of the Guyana experience with rain. Yet still our authorities insist on playing matches there with no alternative measures in place for switching games, pending weather conditions. This is absurd. When the shortest version of the game has to be reduced to the bare minimum of overs, or even worse being washed out, our authorities should hang their heads in shame and resign their positions. It was truly sad witnessing match after match, day after day being affected so largely by Guyana rains.

Barbados and St. Lucia probably did well enough for us to forget about Guyana, but really, how could we? How could the teams involved be pleased? It was a disgrace.

Unfortunate that India and South Africa departed when they did but their failures were reflective of their performances. With England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka seemingly behind Australia in their bid for being the winners, I somehow feel that England has the best chance of sneaking off with the cup.

One cannot put anything beyond the Aussies but someone is likely to falter and my bet will be on them. They have been exemplary and their fielding has been consistent and astonishingly brilliant. They are definitely world champions and presently playing that way. However, in a twenty over contest, anything can happen.

The pugnacious Kevin Pietersen seems likely to be back for England and with such a good all-round bowling attack in place, the English should be able to hold their own very strongly in that department. The front line batting is good. The middle order batting has been rather revealing with Eoin Morgan leading the charge with some responsible and effective batting. The lower order around him too, can do wonders for England and for those reasons I believe England will pull through with flying colors.

However, regardless who walks away with the championship, I believe the tournament in many aspects have made amends to the World Cup series in 2007. The cricket has been good, the games interesting and I believe Caribbean people were pleased even though our team did not feature in the last leg of this historical event.