Battle looms between WICB, Caribbean governments over much needed reforms

YET another effort has been made to revive long suffering West Indies cricket. It is likely to be the last.

The necessary medication that needs to be administered was presented last Wednesday in a comprehensive report by an independent committee of eminent West Indians. It spent three months of consultations, interviews, deliberations and meetings fulfilling its mandate to ‘review the administrative and governance structure of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)’.

Instigated by Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments, through their cricket governance sub-committee, it was jointly agreed on and appointed by the Caricom group and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) after a straight-talking meeting last April that stressed the