West Indies players headed in various directions yesterday following their defeats in the first three matches of the Super 8 round before reassembling in Grenada on Friday to resume their World Cup campaign a week today (April 10). The Jamaicans, Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor and Daren Powell, and Grenadian Devon Smith, along with head coach Bennett King and his staff, flew from Georgetown to Grenada. Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan, as well as team coordinator Clive Lloyd, remained in Georgetown while the Trinidadians and Barbadians chose to spend the few days at home as temporary relief from the anguish of the heavy, successive losses to Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka over the past week. The WICB agreed to the players' request for such an arrangement from the start. It is unusual but, in the present circumstances, might not be as disruptive as it seems. The overall body language in the hat-trick of defeats revealed several younger players clearly traumatized by the turn of events. The break away from public scrutiny and criticism might do them good. Reprinted from stabroknews.com