Groundhog Day for West Indies
The West Indies board and players' association are at loggerheads once again over contracts and the team has boycotted the first Test against Bangladesh
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
The West Indies board and players' association are at loggerheads once again over contracts and the team has boycotted the first Test against Bangladesh. In caribbeancricket.com, Lawrence Romeo calls it a Groundhog Day for West Indies fans, since, like in the movie starring Bill Murray, they find themselves in a repeat situation of what has happened several times before.
Do the leaders of their organizations, Messrs. Hunte and Ramnarine - even though they were once President and Director respectively of the WICB - know each other? Do they care about reaching a beneficial outcome? Have they considered moving beyond the initiation stage of the negotiation and onto the problem solving stage, and hopefully on to some resolution? If as leaders they cannot figure out the way forward beyond the never ending cycle of strike and temporary appeasement, then they are failing as leaders and must either agree to be led, or step aside. Who is the CARICOM leader responsible for cricket, and when is that person going to step up? Can CARICOM, in the face of the failure of all other efforts banish the WICB as an entity from doing business in the Caribbean and start afresh with a new managing organization?
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo