THE procrastination typical of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has left the team without a head coach for a home series against Bangladesh that should be ideal preparation ahead of the tough away assignments against India and South Africa and the World Cup.
It had five and a half weeks after the last international engagement, against New Zealand in the Caribbean in June and July, in which to remove Ottis Gibson after four undistinguished years in the post and give his replacement the two Tests, three ODIs and one T20 International against the lowly Bangladeshis to settle in. Twelve days earlier, it had changed its selection panel, making Clive Lloyd, the inconic captain of the Seventies and Eighties, as chairman and including Courtney Walsh, West Indies’ leading wicket-taker.
In Gibson’s case, it waited until a day before the opening match, Wednesday’s ODI in Grenada, to acknowledge that the two had
