That the Government of Guyana ascribes an altruistic motive to its intervention in the feuding among the rival factions in the struggle for control of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) which had placed local cricket in an even more perilous state than it had been previously, does little to disguise the fact that the intervention was “political,” initiated as it was by President Bharrat Jagdeo during his last few months in office. By intervening the government has indeed rendered itself vulnerable to such an accusation, though the argument that the protagonists ought to have been left to their own devices is itself a weak one. They had already been left to themselves for many months and certainly appeared to be making no progress towards a resolution of the crisis. In the meantime the game itself was being left to suffer.
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