Brathwaite faces the chop
A report on the well-informed caribbeancricket.com website claims that Roger Brathwaite, the West Indies board chief executive, is set to be replaced as the region's cricket slumps to a new low
Cricinfo staff
28-Mar-2006
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The report says that Brathwaite, who told the website that he was "not in a position to comment", is negotiating a settlement package after failing to turn around the decline. He is also said to have not seen eye to eye with Ken Gordon, the businessman who took over as WICB chairman last July.
Perhaps the biggest indictment of Brathwaite is that he has failed to balance the books. The WICB is massively in debt, and many have asked why he did not do more to trim costs. One of Gordon's first acts was to set up a committee to investigate the finances and look at ways of cutting expenditure.
The report by Justice Lucky into the controversial sponsorship negotiations involving the WICB and Digicel also revealed some serious shortcomings in the board's operations.
Aside from the financial difficulties, Brathwaite's tenure has seen the West Indies decline as a force in world cricket continue, and last year was blighted by a bitter stand-off with senior players over the board's contract with Digicel. The hiring of the all-Australian coaching staff has also come under increasing criticism as results have continued to go against West Indies.