For the greater good of West Indies cricket

They should give thought to the words of their former colleague Mr Baldath Mahabir who recently resigned from the board: "Six million West Indians cannot be wrong."

All too often, issues of the greatest importance get side-tracked and lost in a cloud of irrelevancies.

Unfortunately, that happens a lot in the Caribbean.

For that reason, this newspaper believes Caricom's Cricket Review Panel acted wisely in saying up front that its far-reaching recommendations regarding West Indies cricket are in no way personal.

Note the assurance: "The panel wishes to state unequivocally it has no issues with the individuals who occupy the leadership and composition of the WICB or the territorial boards."

Rather, the panel's recommendation for "the immediate dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board and the appointment of an Interim Board whose structure and composition will be radically different" from the current "obsolete governance framework" is simple common sense.