The WICB is behaving like a typical employer: giving instructions and making decisions without consideration for the best interests of the players. Maybe that attitude was made the norm during the time of a person who agrees that the concerns are legitimate but feels that discipline must be maintained.
Even when the people in charge made the most egregiously bad decisions the servants of the board (players, coaching staff) must keep their mouths shut and stomach the nonsense.
The board does not appear to understand that the players make up the team and it is the team that fans want to see. No supporter ever paid to see a director perform, some of them even when they were players themselves.
The spectators are there to see good cricket played by the team. When the coach is denied the best players and knows that such decisions are not cricketing decisions, he knows that his team is going to be massacred. So said, so done.
More than that, he is prevented from accompanying the team although he has breached no rules, and the team is made sacrificial lambs to the board’s overweening ego.
The team’s image is so bad that the host country cannot even give away the tickets—no one wants to see them. This is the disgrace that has been visited upon the much-vaunted former world champions, West Indies. How much lower can we sink?
The recommendations of the prime ministerial subcommittee cannot come too soon before West Indies cricket is totally destroyed by the incompetents who now constitute the board.
Karan Mahabirsingh,
Carapichaima