An efficient WICB is simply boring

West Indies cricket has been entertaining us for decades, and since the region stopped producing awe-inspiring cricket teams, the players and officials have kept the show on the road with their hilarious administrative pratfalls and wacky squabbling.

So the announcement that the WICB will be taking the advice of their own task force and making big changes, is, at first glance, worrying. As a fan of obscure cricket satire, I have a vested interest in incompetence, and since we can't always rely on the PCB to deliver these days, it's vital that we don't lose another natural resource of amusement.

Fortunately, on closer examination, it seems that this particular plan to save West Indies cricket is no more likely to succeed than the previous 186.

First, the bad news. From now on, tour contracts will be issued before the tour starts, which is quite boring. The WICB has been a daring innovator in this area, pioneering the practice of issuing tour contracts after the tour has started, and I was looking forward to more blue-sky thinking: perhaps issuing tour contracts after the tour has finished, which would also allow the WIPA to take retrospective strike action by asking for all the runs scored and wickets taken on tour to be erased from the records. Alas, it is not to be.

Otherwise, these plans have a lot of potential. I was particularly excited to read about the proposal for a team-building activity in April ahead of the England tour, involving players and board members. It isn't clear where this will take place, but I'm hopeful it will be a survival weekend in the Scottish Highlands, and that highlights will be available via the WICB website. The chance to watch an angry Clive Lloyd pursuing Dwayne Bravo across Loch Ness in a kayak is something for us all to look forward to.

The WICB will also be engaging the services of a mental skills coach at the developmental levels of Caribbean cricket. This is to make sure that youngsters coming into the game are prepared for the mental strain that comes with being employed by the WICB and to ensure that potentially deviant behaviour (expressing an opinion, having ideas, demanding to be paid for the job) can be nipped in the bud.

Finally, the WICB will be issuing a players' handbook full of guidelines for professionals, such as: what they can safely say on Twitter (nothing), how to speak to a WICB board member (with the utmost respect), situations when it is acceptable to withdraw your labour (never) and an updated list of phrases that cannot be used in the same sentence as 'West Indies Cricket Board' (new additions include: incompetent, blithering, train-wreck, apocalyptically stupid and boring at parties).

So the Caribbean satire forecast remains favourable. There may be occasional outbreak of proficiency in the short term, and there is always the possibility of isolated success, but clouds of bickering and failure are expected to build as the year goes on, with the likelihood of petulant outbursts and scattered strikes, becoming silly, later on.