By Orin Davidson
If we haven’t seen it all before, the West Indies Cricket Board is continuing to prove why it remains the joke of world cricket administration.
In the aftermath of the Phil Simmons fiasco, the Board added another layer to its laundry list of transgressions as double standards can now be added to the raft of ignominious acts, of its mismanagement of Regional cricket.
New team coach Simmons was promptly banned for Sri Lanka tour for his ill-advised public criticism of three team selectors. And It took the Board less than two days to lay the hammer on the former Test batsman for his outburst to the media, when he accused three selectors of being WICB puppets. Yet almost a year later, the Board has failed to announce disciplinary action taken against any of its administrators whose ineptitude triggered the walkout by the team from its India tour last year.
Despite the resultant US $41 million price tag hanging around its neck—- owed to the Board For Cricket Control of India (BCCI), as a result of the players’ walkout,