West In­dies crick­et is in a mess. In­deed our crick­et is in sham­bles. I say this even against the of­ten too fre­quent and some­what er­ro­neous state­ments ut­tered by of­fi­cers of the many is­land Boards across the Caribbean as to how good their pro­grammes are.

In my opin­ion these pro­nounce­ments are of­ten taint­ed by bias and in­su­lar­i­ty. The man­age­ment of West In­dies crick­et can be de­scribed as too au­to­crat­ic, vin­dic­tive, lack­ing in imag­i­na­tion (I could say a lot more) and run by a bunch of "smart men" whose on­ly mo­ti­va­tion is the in­fla­tion of their al­ready over­size egos.

For in­stance, can we re­al­ly ac­cept that af­ter al­most two months, a de­fin­i­tive de­ci­sion of some sort can­not be made as to the re­in­state­ment or oth­er­wise of the crick­et coach? Is it the coach who is hold­ing up the process, or is it that a de­ci­sion to re­in­state, what­ev­er his wrong­do­ing, will be an em­bar­rass­ment to this board af­ter so unashamed­ly and hasti­ly ap­point­ing one of theirs?

And an­oth­er one of my mus­ings–why not a ti­tle change? Maybe a new brand­ing, eg, The West In­dies Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion.

But don't we al­ready have Cari­com and ACS? Are they help­ful? Think about it.

Tony Jack­man