West Indies' new CEO wants to put fans first

It's probably appropriate that Johnny Grave, the new WICB chief executive, is making his new base at Coolidge, the old Stanford ground, in Antigua.

It's a place that had become a symbol of West Indies' decline. At the start of January, it was overgrown and boarded up. Shrubs had grown on the outfield and the grass was knee high. It provided nothing more than a painful memory of the time West Indies cricket (and English cricket, to be fair) jumped into bed with Allen Stanford.

But it might also become a symbol for Caribbean cricket's resurgence. It might also reflect Grave's ability to take something that appears broken and make it into something good. Because, right now, the WICB are, in partnership with the government of Antigua & Barbuda, in the process of buying the ground from Stanford's receivers.
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Grave admits he has a long 'to do' list.

Ticket prices (prices for the ODI series against England are around USD75, which

may be okay for England's travelling supporters, but is steep for the local market)

a major problem is lots of folks love to talk about play youths because they hear others saying it. These are folks that if they were to be serious, they would say let the youths develop before you force ripe them and kill them quick.