Maybe I do not follow international cricket seriously enough but is there any other board apart from CWI that keeps harping on not having enough money, thereby washing its dirty laundry in public over and over? The thing is that sports are expensive, especially international sports. That is why tv right costs $hundreds of millions. If you do not have enough money to play internationally, get out the kitchen. It is really as simple as that. This may have always been the problem with WI cricket but when we had great teams in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and up to mid 90s. everyone wanted to test themselves against us and so our money issues were patched up. Now that we have the consistently worse performing team in international cricket, naturally no one wants to play against us except when they must and so money woes are exarcebated. A simple problem, no money to fund cricket development and to play internationally, has a simple solution ... make a choice. If you cannot afford both, pick one. The logical one is to invest what little you have in cricket development because without this, your international team will just remain the laughing stock of the world as it pretty much is right now. I therefore suggest that CWI should withdraw from the rest of the current test cycle, withdraw from the next ODI world cup and T20 world cup qualification cycle and spend the scarce resources on: better facilities, better coaching and better high quality regional cricket and even individual player development so that perhaps by the end of 2027, they may actually find 25 players who are truly of international standard and break the 30 year cycle of woe in which West Indies cricket has found itself. There is a price to this. Players like Seales, Shamar, Hope may well lose the ability to play when they are in their prime. Balanced against this of course is the fact that these players constantly play in losing teams and without the support that is needed to make them play at their optimal levels. Good hard cricket and honing of skills for 2 years in unlikely to mean that these guys will lose everything if they are not playing international cricket at the very lowest possible level for this period.

@PalsofMine

 If you do not have enough money to play internationally, get out the kitchen. It is really as simple as that. 

Some good points but this one is not that simple. This would entail forfeiting inclusion in the ICC's FTP. Going this route also means they will have to give up full membership which gives them the right to play test cricket currently.

At least suh me seeit .....

@PalsofMine

Does Nepal or Scotland or Ireland has more money, infrastructure or population.....

The CWI has become a regional power hot bed.....Each nation has its own government but CWI controls cricket in all independent countries without fetter.. without accountability... enjoying international/ global power and influence... flying business class... mismanaging funds without independent audit....

CWI is one of the most powerful and corrupt.... without accountability..

Comparison with national government.... National government as changed by people during election but these Directors of different boards are holding on to power for decades.....these very Directors of different boards elects CWI President according to their own profits rather than upliftment of Cricket in the region......

CWI model should be dismantled... accordingly different boards should be dismantled...a new structure...both national and regional should be formed... Transparent and Accountable to the people of the region.