The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has faced an avalanche of criticisms in recent weeks and months.
Just recently, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meeting in Suriname joined in by complaining about its insensitive and inappropriate response to statements made by Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.
The issues on people’s minds across the Caribbean range from the team’s performance on the field, the captaincy of Darren Sammy, the P. J. Patterson report, to the current Australia tour and the management of cricket under the presidency of Dr Julian Hunte.
In a telephone conversation from St Vincent with THE NATION’s North American correspondent Tony Best, Hunte, a former foreign minister of St Lucia who rose to become president of the United Nations General Assembly, discussed the challenges, problems, mistakes and successes of West Indies cricket in recent times.
For more, read the Big Interview with Hunte in tomorrow’s SUNDAY SUN.