The Surfer

Playing for the people and not themselves

There are reasons to smile for West Indies cricket after one of the more rewarding home seasons in recent times, despite the threat of a players' strike, writes Tony Becca in the Jamaica Gleaner

There are reasons to smile for West Indies cricket after one of the more rewarding home seasons in recent times, despite the threat of a players' strike, writes Tony Becca in the Jamaica Gleaner. The smile will only continue, however, if the board looks at itself and deals with the business of West Indies cricket and its representatives properly, fairly, and with respect while knowing, and accepting that, like the players, they can be removed.
Regardless of how its members behave sometimes, probably most times, cricket does not belong to the board, and regardless of what they may say and believe, regardless of how great they may be or believe they are, cricket does not belong to the players - to the Test players, or to the first-class players. Cricket belongs to the people.
In the Jamaica Observer, Garfield Myers comments on the composition of the West Indies' touring squad for England.

Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo