Why Not, eh?

To return to the news conference earlier this week, I can understand why the committee felt it had to do it, but I don’t get why it was so vague and devoid of anything substantive. Brian Lara may have been there out of a sense of duty, but he seemed more jaded than enthused. The new CEO, Chris Dehring, despite his optimistic and energetic outlook, must be wondering if he will be allowed to fulfil his visions. Certainly, it seemed odd that he was placed in the frontline when CWI president Kishore Shallow was the one who had convened this “emergency summit” and then slunk in towards the end, never joining the others.

That evening, Fazeer Mohammed was the guest on a podcast (Massive Hit Cricket Show) and he was his usual forthright self, presenting a comprehensively structured and scathing review of the issues surrounding the state of West Indies cricket. He started off by declaring that he had “zero expectations” from this meeting, and thus, he was not disappointed. If you can, you really should listen to his analysis. I found myself nodding in agreement with many of his points.Fazeer made the point that it is all well and good to provide us with an action list, but as he rightly noted, we’ve had consultations and reports that go further back than the ages of our current players. What has become of them? At the heart of these reports is the conclusion that the governance structure is deeply flawed.