AS West Indies cricket teeters on the edge of extinction, with the president of the board, his directors and the players all seemingly unaware of how close they have brought it to the precipice, yet another independent committee has been given the challenging job of trying to save it from itself.
At its emergency meeting in Barbados on Tuesday, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced it would set up an imposingly designated Task Force, “comprising critical stakeholders”, to review what it euphemistically described as “the premature end of the tour to India”.
It has been charged with meeting all parties involved in the tour’s unprecedented abandonment that prompted the unequivocal disgust of their hosts, the present strong-armed enforcers of the world game, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It would then convey its findings to the WICB.
Its members were still to be named up to late yesterday; all the usual suspects, politicians most prominent,
