Rowley maintains bankruptcy would have been best for board
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley still wishes the Indian Cricket Board’s (BCCI) US$42 million claim for damages had resulted in the bankruptcy of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
Speaking here earlier this week, Rowley said in light of the board’s continued opposition to governance reform, bankruptcy would have forced the collapse of the institution and hopefully resulted in the birth of a new structure.
“I have said publicly before that I had become very excited when the management — the current board — had taken action that could have led to the bankruptcy of the board,” Rowley said.
“Because when they incurred that $42 million charge in India, I was hoping that the Indian board would press for their money and would have bankrupted West Indies cricket and we would have come out of that with a new arrangement, given the recalcitrance and the bombast that comes from the West Indies Cricket Board no