Straight fight

HAD it not involved the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), it could be simply dismissed as far-fetched fiction.
It is the confusion, the intrigue and the infighting that surrounds the forthcoming election of its president and vice-president that make the storyline so real. All are established characteristics of an organization that has long since lost the trust of almost all of its greatest players as well as a public disenchanted with its repeated ineffectiveness.

The buildup to the March 27 ballot hardly changes the widespread perception.

The candidates for the presidency are the incumbent, Julian Hunte, the 73-year-old St. Lucian businessman who has been persuaded to reverse his position on retirement after more than three decades in various positions on the board,