By Orin Davidson
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cannot help shooting itself in the foot even if euphemism is eliminated completely from the English language.
Its latest self inflicted wound has not only seriously torpedoed the career of one of the team’s talented batsmen, but again advertised the Board as an example of how best to run one’s self into the ground.
Marlon Samuels committed a misdeed, but it is a tragedy he has to suffer as draconian a penalty as a two- year ban which the WICB allowed to be slapped on the player in the blink of an eye.
Yes, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has its penalties for violation of its Rules of Conduct, but it is befuddling the WICB found Samuels guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, that leaves him at the mercy of an unjust, harsh penalty, given past happenings involving similar and worst cases of rule violations in the cricket world.
