Thirty minutes or so east of Bridgetown, past sugar cane fields, the Foursquare rum distillery, brightly painted chattel houses and down a road not dissimilar in nature to New York’s drop-in pitch sits Windward Cricket Club in the rural parish of Saint Philip.
It is a beautiful little ground that dates back to the 1970s – the club officially founded back in 1921 – and one of the training bases for this T20 World Cup, just a stone’s throw from Jofra Archer’s family home. Archer, sleeping in his own bed for this leg of the tournament, was among the first England players to arrive at nets on Thursday and feeling relaxed enough to chat now that a 14-month break from international cricket is over.
