Resistance to change hurting WICB

Whether the beleaguered but defiant incumbent Dave Cameron returned for a second term after yesterday's presidential WICB election or Joel Garner became the first Test player since Wes Hall in 2003 to head the organisation is largely immaterial to the overdue revival of an entity once the pride of its passionate public and envy of the rest of the world.

Over two decades, the game in the West Indies has plummeted from the paramount standing of teams led by Frank Worrell, Garry Sobers, Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards to virtual irrelevance, languishing in the lower reaches of the ICC table for Tests and ODIs.

On the eve of the latest election, a loss to India left them tottering on the cusp of first-round elimination of the World Cup in Australia. When he took up office in March 2013, Cameron was the sixth president since the turn of the 21st century; there have been seven chief executives in that time.