By Tony Cozier
AS if it didn’t have enough problems of its own, West Indies cricket has encountered yet another, one that did not even feature in the Patterson Committee’s report to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on the future of the game.
Perhaps it should have for it has been serious enough over the past couple of weeks to have held up the arrival of players prior to the first Test in Guyana,
forced the cancellation of a scheduled match on the current Sri Lankan tour, a drastic, unprecedented and embarrassing measure, delayed the start of a Carib Beer Cup match, prevented an umpire from fulfilling his assignment and denied the Barbados team practice prior to their crucial current contest against Trinidad and Tobago.
