IT is 26 days since the West Indies team prematurely exited its tour of India with one ODI, one Twenty20 and three Tests left abandoned, a week since the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) formalized its claim against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for US$41.97 million compensation for the consequent losses, just six days before its deadline for an explanation of how the WICB intends to pay.
Such a time frame indicates the need for urgency.
Yet, in spite of three meetings of the WICB directors and the intervention of prime minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in arranging and supervising talks between the parties involved in the unprecedented abandonment in India – the WICB under president Dave Cameron, Wavell Hinds and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) he heads and ODI captain Dwayne Bravo and the attorney for the players in India – no tangible progress has been made in reaching an agreed settlement.
The indecision has simply become more indecisive, the confusion more confused, the acrimony more acrimonious.
At every turn, rumour has followed rumour.
One is that all three team captains, Denesh Ramdin, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy,