Now WICB wants governments support

Fri, Apr 15, '16

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has written to four regional governments, asking for their support in the upcoming four-Test series against India. The series, scheduled for July/August, may see matches being played in T&T, Guyana, St Lucia and Jamaica if the Board gets approval from the governments.

Guardian Media understands that the WICB wrote to the governments, asking them to indicate their willingness to host the matches despite a Caricom that has been openly calling for the dissolution of the WICB.

It took good negotiating skill on the part of the West Indies to get approval from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for their team to tour the Caribbean and resume bi-lateral relations which was severed after the West Indies abandoned a tour of India in 2014.

Coming out of that Indian fiasco, Caricom and the WICB put together a committee to look at the governance of West Indies cricket. They recommended that the WICB be dissolved. Caricom has since been pushing for that although the WICB has been holding strong.