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West Indies Legends call for dissolution of 'obsolete' WICB

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19 Apr 2016 08:46 #301574 by Chin
West Indies news
April 19, 2016
West Indies Legends call for dissolution of 'obsolete' WICB
NAGRAJ GOLLAPUDI

Members of the West Indies Legends panel, including Andy Roberts and Deryck Murray, meet in Grenada © West Indies Legends
A host of West Indies legends including Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Wes Hall and Andy Roberts have called upon the WICB to dissolve the board, in line with the CARICOM cricket review panel's recommendation, and appoint an interim committee as part of the structural reforms that would enable the region's cricket to "develop and flourish".

On April 14 in Grenada, converging under the umbrella banner of Cricket Legends, Sobers and Co. met with St Vincent and Grenadines' premier Keith Mitchell, chairman of the Prime Ministerial Committee on the Governance of West Indies Cricket, which appointed the review panel in the wake of the crisis that emerged in the wake of West Indies' withdrawal from India's tour in October 2014.

The Legends' wish-list

Immediate resignation of all current WICB directors. Establishment of an interim board. Formation of a new board structure.
All sponsors of West Indies cricket to make good governance a condition for financial support.
The ICC to understand that the dysfunctional management and poor leadership of the WICB are harming the game.
CARICOM to appoint an independent auditor to carry out a detailed forensic audit of the Board.

Also present at the meeting were other former West Indies players - allrounder Roger Harper; fast bowler Charlie Griffith; wicketkeeper Deryck Murray, who was also member of the CARICOM review panel, legspinner Dinanath Ramnarine, who was previously the president of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), and opening batsman, Desmond Haynes. Rudi Webster, who worked as a psychologist with Clive Lloyd's team, and the current World T20-winning captain, Darren Sammy, were invited as guests.

Tearing into the WICB with the same vigour that they reserved for their opponents in their playing days, the Legends decried the board's "oligarchic structure" which has remained "unchanged in attitude and structure" for the past seven decades.

"During the last two decades, many different presidents and CEOs have led the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and yet, its performance has declined steadily with each passing year," the Legends said in a media release. "The Board is an oligarchic structure that considers itself answerable to no one but itself. It is one of the few sporting institutions that have remained virtually unchanged in attitude and structure in the last 70 years or more."

The Legends said the WICB could not shield itself from such vehement opposition by calling itself a private body. They agreed with the CARICOM panel's view that the board was accountable to various governments in the Caribbean.

The release also pointed out the boards in Australia and New Zealand had overhauled their governance structure for the better and that had been reflected in their various teams prospering in all forms of the game.

Even the most powerful cricketing board, BCCI, the Legends observed, was under pressure from India's Supreme Court to open up to radical reforms to its governance structure. "Inexplicably, the WICB prefers to maintain the status quo and yet, it expects to get different results while it continues to do the same things," the release said.

"We believe that revival of West Indies cricket will only happen when the Board undergoes structural adjustment, and when it improves the quality of its communication and leadership, and upgrades the management of key relationships."

The five-member review panel comprising Murray, V. Eudine Barriteau, Sir Dennis Byron, Dwain Gill and Warren Smith concluded its report on October 15, in which it described the WICB as "obsolete". The board plainly rejected the panel's report saying none of the six territorial boards - Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Leeward Islands and Windward Islands - were represented, nor its directors, clubs and representatives. Hence, it concluded, the panel's findings were not supported by facts.

Recently former West Indies fast bowler Joel Garner, president of the Barbados Cricket Association, was critical of the CARICOM panel's observations, questioning how some members of the WICB could suddenly be called "illegal" when they were formed according to the individual constitutions of the region's countries.

Although some of these former players have voiced opposition against the WICB in the past two decades, this is the first time they have formed a united front of opposition.

"We are very proud of our legacy," the release said. "We cannot now in good conscience stand idly by and watch everything that we fought so hard to build and achieve disappear right before our eyes because of the actions of inept Board members and an incompetent Board."

Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo

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19 Apr 2016 10:18 #301599 by Googley
not so fast....says Garner!!  8)

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19 Apr 2016 10:29 #301602 by ketchim
LoL ...IF the Legends think they can just say so and it will be so

they are "legends in their own minds"    :-[  tmDirtyHarry

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19 Apr 2016 10:31 #301604 by The Captain
wait a minute weren't some of these guys on that board why they didn't dissolve it them


or was it legends bar

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19 Apr 2016 10:35 #301606 by ketchim

Correct : look Thisty
                         

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19 Apr 2016 13:07 #301643 by Googley
Murray look like he is trying to remember what happened 5 mins ago!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

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19 Apr 2016 13:28 #301646 by ketchim
and where he is : dressed for a ceremony in England !

compared to the others.

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02 May 2016 12:45 #303000 by 654321
Caribbean Prime Ministers need to run their country and leave the cricket alone. So much problems in the island that need special attention. Healthcare is none existence in all of the island their policy on immigration towards the other islands are worst than those of Donald Trump on the Mexican. Its cheaper to fly from any US city to the Caribbean that to fly from one island to the other those are problems that you should be fixing not WI cricket.

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02 May 2016 13:08 #303007 by mapoui
good show Legends! dissolve and start afresh..essential this time.  and eff the ICC and its political interference in west indies affairs.

Caricom leaders should also tell the ICC to get off with their ridiculous politically incorrect 'no politics in sport'

*  I am also impressed with the way Darren Sammy has earned a place or respect in west indies cricket.  excellent indeed.  he has EARNED his place. 
well done

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02 May 2016 13:10 #303008 by ketchim
stewwwpppssss....The Place is still in a mess

Nothing has changed : well done meh rarse !

so called "legends" juss braying like Chin and my socks  :P

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