Top 3 cricket teams which dominated in the past but have struggled in recent times

#1 West Indies

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It is surprising to see that so many sovereign islands from a specific region came under one official flag for cricket. West Indies had traditionally dominated the world cricket for almost a historic quarter of a century. Winners of first two World Cups and famous for their pace attack, they made every other team look dwarfed in every sense.

The economic mismanagement of WICB started to reflect in the 2000s. Maintaining the Carribean supremacy had come to be a thing of the past, now it was modern economic age and all the players demanded good fees. The row between the players and the WICB regarding the pay had come in the open. Though the performance of the West Indies side continued to be good in T20Is but declined sharply in Test matches and One Day Internationals.

The decline of cricket also coincided with the resurgence of other games like basketball, athletics, and other track events. There is an ample amount of talent pool in the Caribbean islands, but players are not willing to risk their career into cricket which offers only a bleak chance of success.

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In the present day, all the star players like Chris Gayle are busy playing different T20 leagues but do play enough first-class games to be eligible to play Test cricket. WICB is also to be equally blamed for its mismanagement, unable to provide an efficient infrastructure for cricket.

In the wake of the above disappointments and the problems that have plagued Windies cricket, their recent win against England, where we saw the emergence of a quartet of fast bowlers spearheaded by their skipper Jason Holder, which proceeded to bamboozle the English batting-unit and script a 2-1 Test series win.

Following their 2-1 series win, the Windies also proceeded to draw-level the ODI series, where Gayle shellacked the English bowlers to the tune of 39 sixes and two hundreds.

The series against England gave us a glimpse of the lost glory of the Windies, and the upcoming months will amply vindicate whether that was indeed tangible progress or just a rare flash in the pan.