To me ? And really how does that benefits our first class cricket? Seriously, how can it really ?

the CWI is out of money, over 20 million in debt, the format might be the cheapest way to have a tournament

@Raggs

in its current state it is of little help but with tweaking it can benefit the coffers while helping to develop players

they could have done 2 group of 4 teams playing each other twice and the top team from each group contest a final, CCC and W I academy stays assuring teams of 6 matches each and a territory host a group

@hawk

Exactly what I was saying. And get the territorial boards to foot part of the bill. Most of them get some sort of governmental subvention….they should use it. One side facing the same team three times is nonsensical

@Jumpstart

You are Absolutely correct that the territorial boards along with their governments should be footing part of the bill,

It is disappointing that our cricket admins could only come up with three game against the same opposition

@Jumpstart

 And get the territorial boards to foot part of the bill. Most of them get some sort of governmental subvention….they should use it.

But they are using it. The government subvention is not to bail out CWI but to develop cricket in the own regions like in schools and local clubs for both men and women teams at all levels.

Let CWI learn to manage their own house or just leave and let more competent people run it ...

@Kay

Yeah I don’t know about that. Cricket in schools in the region is 1) limited to elite schools who can foot the bill of purchasing equipment or maintaining a ground( not all schools have it but many do, and the most successful almost certainly do). In Trinidad it’s like 6(St Mary’s, Fatima, QRC, Pres Chaguanas, Pres San Do and Naps). And those schools produce high level graduates who go on to be high earning professionals. QRC’s restoration of the iconic central tower was almost completely paid for by contributions from the old boy’s association. So they could easily foot the bill for a cricket team.

@Raggs

One word, Stupidity!

😂 😂 😂

The WICB should've agreed on a multi-year budget for these times, tours by England and India will only swell the coffers so much.

There needs to be a root and branch review of regional cricket.

Given the current format and finances, I would've tried 2 groups of 3 playing each other twice in a couple of host regions with the group winners playing in a final.

The Academy should play one game each against the competition winners and a Windies 'B' side.

@WICFan

To play a team 3 times is stale, staggant,boring rubbish. In a group format it's utterly senseless. Best of three final maybe but.... garbage!

@WICFan

If they didn’t waste money on the PCL which demonstrably has yielded not one benefit, we may not have had this issue. When you are a small board, you cannot afford a system of professional contracts at the fc level. In England, the ECB does not pay the contracts of the counties, the boards of the respective teams do. Which is why when Viv and bird’s contracts were inexplicably not renewed for the 1986 county season, the Sussex board was responsible, not the then TCCB. If anything that money should have been pumped into an academy

Miles Bascombe was interviewed lately and he said the reason why the CWI ran into so much debt was because they are running so many tournaments for both the male and female teams. They also have the U19 tours and the Emerging players tournament.

@Jumpstart

Lots more schools play cricket in Jamaica.

@Raggs

The only benefit is to make these look better than they actually are with inflated stats!😜

@StumpCam

Isn't that the norm, regardless of the format?