Changing of the guard but will anything change?

AS new president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, takes his place at the head of the table he finds a plate before him spilling over with urgent matters to attend to.

Since it took a rogue vote from one of the delegates of the regional boards to prevent what would have been a 6-6 deadlock in his challenge to long-serving president, Julian Hunte, at the annual general meeting last Wednesday, he would appreciate that securing unity among the board of directors is a priority.

Improving relations with the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), so consistently confrontational, turning around the grim financial situation and, as crucial as anything else, checking and upgrading the diabolical standard of the regional game are unquestionably others.

Although he has been on the WICB for over a decade now, little was known of Cameron outside of Jamaica until