IN MY TWO decades as a sports journalist, I have no doubt in my mind what is the most common refrain I’ve heard – get rid of the board.
Whether the West Indies Cricket Board president was Pat Rousseau (1996-2001), Wes Hall (2001-2003), Teddy Griffith (2003-2005), Ken Gordon (2005-2007), Julian Hunte (2007-2013) or Dave Cameron (2013 to the present), the catchphrase was the same – the board must go.
Guess what folks. No one who was on the board in 2000 is on the board today. In other words, we have gotten rid of the board everyone wanted to go. But guess what, the problems still remain.
From Rousseau’s days when there was a stand-off between the board and the players on the eve of a historic tour to South Africa in 1998 to Darren Sammy’s outburst last Sunday after the ICC World Twenty20 final, we’ve seen continuous acrimony, bitterness and rancour between the two parties.
Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.
