At the end of another particularly bad week, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) issued a statement reiterating that it will “continue with its programme for the restructuring of West Indies cricket and will pursue through all available channels the arrangements that are necessary for the progress of cricket in the territories and the region.”

It was a redundant assertion, for surely that it is the WICB’s very purpose to ensure the “progress of cricket in the region”, but it was prompted by what it charged were comments by West Indies Players Association (WIPA) head Dinanath Ramnarine “seemingly aimed at establishing a familiar unsavoury and antagonistic approach towards the WICB.”

Seeing that Ramnarine’s words followed the latest in a succession of WIPA’s binding arbitration victories over disagreements between the two bodies, it should not have been surprised. He has…..