How voting with the Big Three cost WICB $43 million

THERE has been a deafening silence around the resolution of the problem with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over the tour cancelled by the president of the West Indies Cricket Board in late 2014.  There was a very glib comment that it would be settled and no word since.
I think this is a very rocky road and this problem will not be solved easily and without the payment of money by the WICB. I hope I am wrong.

The problem has affected the WICB tour schedule and I am sure contributed to the cancellation of a triangular One-Day International Tournament with Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The tour would have given West Indies a chance to qualify for the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 in England. Pakistan withdrew and there was no ICC pressure to insist on the tour so it was cancelled.

We lost the opportunity to qualify by winning the series and gaining enough points to be among the top eight ODI teams at the qualifying date of September 30, 2015.   We will now not participate in 2017.

This is happening while the WICB president is playing politics with town-hall meetings but offering no explanation for this major setback.  This will be the first time that West Indies will fail to participate in an important ICC tournament.

But maybe the lack of interest can be explained by the giveaway of the rights we once enjoyed at the ICC because of a vote by Dave Cameron, the WICB president, and his fellow Full Members of the ICC.