Good riddance to Ken Gordon
Like a failed renovator, Ken Gordon will apparently be walking away from the mess he made at the end of next month. The Trinidadian businessman's disastrous term as President of the WICB ends next month, and sources say that mercifully, he will not seek re-election.
Unfortunately, it may well be too late for West Indies cricket. Since taking over from his predecessor Teddy Griffith, things went from bad to horribly worse in a hurry.
Gordon's accomplishments include appointing three more directors to help push his agenda, appointing the most belligerent CEO in the history of the WICB, presiding over the worst World Cup ever, and losing four arbitrated disputes in a row against the players' association. It is fair to say that Gordon's term has been characterised by a quest to suppress criticism, rather than to address it.
This man even had the unmitigated gall to demand an apology from Chris Gayle for stating the obvious in a diary entry that was approved by the board's own representative. One wonders when Ken Gordon or the WICB have ever apologised for their bungling, mismanagement, or the general ineptitude that permeates every aspect of how the West Indies cricket is run. Ken Gordon needs to issue an apology to the fans of West Indies cricket for running it into the ground.
Of course, the sad thing is, Gordon was not alone in this. Not far behind him was his band of accomplices -- Deryck Murray, Allen Sammy, Tony Deyal, and the belligerent Bruce Aanensen who, if he was looking for incompetence, never had to look beyond his own cabal. None of these people have anything to offer West Indies cricket other than distance between it and themselves, yet it is most likely that one of them will seek to replace Gordon.
The fact is, the WICB is a failed organisation. It has lost whatever credibility it may once have had, and is now openly ridiculed at home and around the world. This entity is rotten to the very core, and it is simply beyond redemption. It is time for someone -- even if it has to be Allen Stanford -- to come forward and build something new, because the old dog that is the WICB simply cannot learn any new tricks.