“[…] No matter how bad it is [West Indies] teams play, there are no consequences for the regional boards because they operate under the CWI. The CWI is basically a sponge they created to absorb the consequences of their incompetence and incompetence at the territorial level.
“Is it CWI president Ricky Skerritt’s responsibility to develop cricketers in Trinidad? Or is it Azim Bassarath’s? […]”
The following letter to the editor on the state of cricket in the West Indies was submitted to Wired868 by cricket enthusiast Choy Aping:
(Copyright Daniel Prentice/ Wired868)
For too long, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has shied away from indirectly engaging in the undermining and destruction of coaches and captains in WI cricket, with little or no consequence to it.
It’s almost like CWI becomes the good guy when they fire the coaches and captains who sent them onto the battlefield with all the resources to fail in the first place.
I find something wrong with such a system.
The captain and coaches of the West Indies teams are paying the price for the entire incompetence of the cricket board – and when I say board, I mean the TTCB, GCB, BCB, LICB, JCA, etc.
The job of the captain and coaches in every field is based on performance, but the responsibility/responsibility rests with the parent body to provide the appropriate resources to achieve these results. In this regard, CWI has failed miserably and got away with it.
(via CWI Media)
Is it the coach’s fault that he doesn’t have batsmen with a first-class average of 35 or bowlers who can trap five-wicket contests in the 4-day regional competition?
How is the coach expected to get fast players to take five-fors at the highest level when they aren’t doing it at regionals?!
I will tell you here and now: any captain or coach who takes on the role of WI captain or coach today is doing so for a payday and security of selection, as they will always face the impossible task to try to succeed with insufficient resources.
And these guys have been getting away with this crime in WI cricket for years.
Imagine that the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force hasn’t won or come close to winning a 4-day competition for the past 17 years, yet guys like Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TCB) president Azim Bassarath have been re-elected unopposed for years – thanks, in part, to the difficulty of voting them through the flawed constitution.
The administrative structure of West Indies cricket is extremely flawed. No matter how badly the teams play, there are no consequences for the regional boards because they operate under the CWI.
The CWI is basically a sponge they created to absorb the consequences of their incompetence and incompetence at the territorial level.
Is it CWI president Ricky Skerritt’s responsibility to develop cricketers in Trinidad? Or is it Bassarathi’s?
Why then is Skerritt, and not Bassarath, blamed when Trinidad and Tobago’s unprepared players go out and fail the West Indies team?
(Copyright Daniel Prentice/ Wired868)
Can Skeritt dethrone Bassarath? So how is Skeritt supposed to make Bassarath account for the lack of proper cricketers coming from Trinidad?
Meanwhile Bassarath seems impossible to get rid of, due to their “exit vote” system.
I honestly can’t see how the West Indies team will get any better in the current set-up.
