PORT OF SPAIN: IT is one thing to lose all over the world, as West Indies have been doing consistently this past decade. It is another story altogether that this forgettable record is being repeated at home – and to arch-rivals who for more than a generation could not find the clue of how to win a cricket series in the Caribbean. England are hardly the world beaters such as South Africa and Australia, two teams in the last year that have soundly beaten the West Indies. But that will hardly be known the way the current test series has unfolded. West Indies will duly lose the second cricket test here on Tuesday, and with it the hopes of a series win will be gone. The collective anger of West Indian fans will remain. Many questions are being asked, and the answers are neither easy nor straight forward. But a fact is clear, something has to give. Today there are open questions being asked about Brian Lara’s leadership of the team, about the quality of the coaching staff, about the discipline, dedication and focus of some of the key players; about the very state and survival of West Indies cricket. The fact has been brought by one simple five word caption on caribbeancricket.com: ‘Captain the ship has sunk!” The website’s editor told NEWSBREAK (CARIBUPDATE'S syndicated radio news show) Tuesday morning: “If the West Indies continue to lose in the series Lara will be under the gun for his lack of leadership and for his struggles with the bat. In a normal world his failures should lead to a resignation of the captaincy.” “Will Lara give up the captaincy and concentrate on his batting or will the West Indies Cricket Board make the decision for him?” Ryan asked rhetorically. The failure of Lara to come in at his normal number four position Monday has been heavily debated around the region. Noted cricket commentator Tony Cozier called it a tactical cop-out. “Whatever the explanation for this tactic, it backfired spectacularly when Steve Harmison, with the first ball of a new spell, ripped one back to trap Lara lbw for eight,” English writer Jonathan Agnew wrote Tuesday. “The West Indies captain will wake on Tuesday morning to some local pundits questioning his future,” he said. Cozier wrote about Lara’s decision to come lower in the order: “It was, even to many of Lara’s devoted countrymen, the official hoisting of the white flag by a West Indies team humiliated by its all-out 47 and defeat in the first Test and its collapse to 208 in the first innings here. “When Lara still did not appear at the dismissal of vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan at 54 for three shortly after lunch, sending Shivnarine Chanderpaul instead, there was no other interpretation than that it was a shameful shirking of responsibility by the captain of a team in desperate need of his leadership and his feared batting,” he said. SOURCE:CARIBUPDATE NEWS SERVICE