A bright new future for West Indies? Think again.

A bright new future for West Indies cricket dawned last week. At least that's how the WICB interpreted the comprehensive overhaul of the ICC - initiated unequivocally for their benefit by India, England and Australia - that it enthusiastically supported ("after extensive discussions and careful consideration") at the directors' meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday in Dubai.

There is a certain irony to its ready acceptance of such a radical transformation to the way the world game is administered. Twice it has commissioned independent committees to advise on just such change to its own organisation. Twice it has utterly ignored them.

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