Q & A with Lyndel Wright: “Let good sense prevail”

The Jamaica Cricket Association’s (JCA) election was long in the making. Suggestions of impropriety led to delays in the Annual General Meeting while the organization’s financial records were audited. On 11th May, Lyndel Wright won the mandate - by a wide margin - to direct Jamaica’s cricket for the next two years.

He is better known as the half-brother of O’Neil Gordon ‘Collie’ Smith – a famous West Indian all rounder whose life was cut short in a car accident in England at the age of 26. Wright was a spinner who bowled leg breaks for Boys Town which at the time had a strong team playing in Jamaica’s Senior Cup competition. Making his debut for Jamaica in 1969, Wright went on to represent his country for 10 years, playing his last match against Guyana in April 1979. He later managed several Jamaica teams and has a reputation as a disciplinarian.