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Instead it is the announcement that, come the end of March 2019, there is a strong opportunity and occasion for West Indies cricket to breathe again. Former West Indies team manager Ricky Skerritt has announced that he will be challenging the incumbent president of Cricket West Indies, Dave Cameron, for the presidency.

Cameron has been unpopular all around the West Indies since his appointment on March 27, 2013, replacing Julien Hunte, before which he was a vice president of the board. He has been especially unpopular with several of the top regional players and former players, who have had their say on his three terms (of two years each).

While there is not much, or enough, known about Skerritt as an administrator, there is a strong belief that anything is better than Cameron again. The latter has not helped himself with his utterances in the past, whether on television, radio, in print, or via social media, which many have either rightfully or otherwise described as arrogant or divisive.

Two votes each for Cameron from Barbados and Guyana, plus at least one vote from the Windward Islands, puts him on five votes. Similarly, two each for Skerritt from Leeward Islands and Trinidad and Tobago, plus one vote possible from Windward Islands, places him on five votes too.

This means that Jamaica's two votes are critical. The facts that Cameron is a Jamaican by birth, and that the elections were apparently suddenly shifted to Jamaica in March, assume relevance. Politically there are those that have suggested that the current opposition party in Jamaica strongly supports Cameron.

Only time will tell whether the influence of the Caricom leaders on Jamaica's prime minister, Andrew Holness, will have any impact on which way the Jamaican association votes.