The US$62,500 winners’ pay day in the current Caribbean Twenty20 – even the overall pot of US$125,000 – is mere pocket change to the real megabucks of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Australia’s Big Bash and other such biff-bang extravaganzas that have sprung up in every country since introduced in England in 2004.

There is an obvious reason. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is clearly under singular financial constraints, caused mainly by small island populations and economies but also by the …..