Hunte must go

An editorial in the Jamaica Observer calls for West Indies board president Julian Hunte and his administration to step aside to make room for a complete transformation of the way cricket is run in the region. There have been positives in his tenure, like extending the first-class season with home and away games, despite the absence of sponsorship. But larger and more pressing issues still remain.

At bottom line, we believe, the WICB and its territorial affiliates, surrounded though they are by an increasingly professional world, have remained trapped in a culture of amateurism and insular parochialism. Hence that still officially unexplained disaster in Antigua earlier in the year when a Test match had to be abandoned in the first few minutes because the field was unfit for any kind of cricket - except the beach variety - and the countless gut-wrenching embarrassments such as the latest 'no contract' allegation reportedly made by the dismissed coach Mr John Dyson.