HEADLINE: ICC chair advocates breaking up of West Indies cricket

Barclay completed his term as ICC chair on December 1, handing over the position to Jay Shah for the next three years. In an interview with Telegraph Sport during the Christchurch Test match between England and New Zealand, Barclay touched on several subjects relevant to his tenure, among them the future of Test match cricket, and whether it was feasible for all countries that currently play it to continue to do so.

In particular, he highlighted the plight of Cricket West Indies, which has faced significant financial difficulty over the last few years, particularly heightened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the ICC's model from 2024-27, West Indies will receive a less than a five per cent share of ICC earnings.

“You look at the West Indies, I love what they’ve done for the game, but is the West Indies in its current form sustainable?” said Barclay. “Is it time for them to break into each of their islands?

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Mr. Barclay is not aware of the importance and the cultural attachment of the WI team to the Caribbean. If the WI team was broken up into separate countries cricket standards would drop even more in the islands

In reply to dayne

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Music to my ears…long overdue..time to extricate ourselves from this vestige of colonialism

In reply to FanAttick

You are going to be tarred and feathered....Been saying this for 62 years...since 1962 when
Yard changed its flag. Be on guard

In reply to hubert

My back broad bro

West Indies cricket is already broken up due to island insularities, with one island dominating selection of their own players despite performance, while more talented players from other islands are denied selection. I have a colleague at work from another cricketing country, who has been watching West Indies cricket from our dominant days, he observed that WI is quick to discard performing players for lesser talented and less performing players, which have contributed to the gradual decline of West Indies cricket.

In reply to Slipfeeler

The late great Tony Cozier used to justify the selection of marginal and unproven Bajan players by talking about their “obvious talent”…stats be dammed

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

BRUK II UP NOW

We the people don't own WI cricket anyway....CWI is a PRIVATE entity that do what they and when they want....

NONESENSE FOR TOO LONG

Don’t know if this guy understands Geography- how is he going to break up Guyana into an island?

Does he think Guyana is surrounded by water like the UK, Australia, NZ or Sri Lanka?

In reply to dayne


Mr Barclay is more aware than you think.....'Who is Who" in cricket reads dis board

In reply to Acid

DE man tempting Guyana....de fastest growing economy in de world...

Guyana is a fast growing economy

In reply to Acid

Guyana for your info is on a continent, SOUTH AMERICA. It will lead cricket's resurgence
on that Continent. Oil rich and with unlimited room to prosper and grow, what the hell would it
need WI for ? Oh yes to be exploited and marginalized ...
It has been largely forgotten and bypassed in recent years with little or no Test cricket...
The haste in which the WI gave them permit to have a Global T20 should be a wake up call
to all who are woke in WI cricket as lovers.
And now we have heard talk of WEHBY report, again ??? This is so funny ...
This welfare masony of leeches called WI Board is something else......Time COMING

Madman.

In reply to velo

Is dat a joke for you?

In reply to Narper
i was just poking fun i have nothing against guyana except that statement is ridiculous

You know at this stage, I say leh we go with that. No sign of our islands ever wanting to form a single political entity. Why then should we worry to have a single cricket team that in any event brings nothing to the international table. It would be interesting if we all start at the lowest international level and see which island will make its way furthest and fastest. My money will be on Jamaica with their inbred competitiveness in sport.

GUYANA AND BARBADOS NO SHOW FOR CRITICAL CWI GOVERNANCE VOTE - SECOND TIME IN HISTORY

Barbados

McCaskie
Braithwaithe
Hope
Chase
Mayers
Greaves
Holder
Jordan /Springer/Drakes
Roach
Blades/ C Holder
Warrican

Guyana

Tage
Nandu/Sinclair
Imlach
Anderson/Savory/Sinclair
Hetmeyer
Rutherford
Shepherd
Motie
Paul
Permaul/Sinclair
Joseph

Trinidad

Ottley
Webster
Bravo(Michael)
Jangoo
Goolie
DaSilva
Hinds
Hossein
Pierre/Charles/Mohammed
Philip
Seales

Yes mr barclay is right. Guyana wants to go it alone. we have the best fans in the west indies.

I was in florida watching CPL games a few years ago and i only see Guyanese fans.

No trini fans in florida.

Guyanese fans everywhere.

Guyana can go it alone and be successful.

Mr Greg Barclay is a intelligent man.