WICB to be dissolved and renamed as Cricket West Indies

WICB to be dissolved and renamed as Cricket West Indies; separate wings for governance and commercial affairs: With an aim to improve the infrastructure and the financial condition, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will be renamed as Cricket West Indies. The board will only look after the administrative and governance related parts and a separate commercial wing will be created to look after the financial matters.

The WICB is struggling with several administrative issues at the moment. Also, their cricket team has also continued to struggle in international cricket. At the Cayman Cricket’s Annual dinner, WICB chief Dave Cameron said that they have resolved to change the name of WICB as Cricket West Indies.

“We have resolved to change the name of the WICB and we will be called Cricket West Indies. And why Cricket West Indies? Simply, because everybody seems to believe that the board of directors – the West Indies Cricket Board – is cricket. Cricket is all of us. It’s in all of our communities — in Jamaica, Barbados and in Cayman Islands and the entire region.”

He further added, “We have also created a distinct commercial entity … we will roll that out in the next couple of months as well, and that is to ensure that we have our brand identity and commercial platform, very distinct from our governance platform. So the governance will be Cricket West Indies and we will have a commercial platform.”

According to few, the condition in WICB needs urgent legal intervention in order to firmly uphold the rule of law, principles of democracy and transparency and accountability which are the issues that are affecting the governance of the game in the Caribbean.

These changes have been announced just a couple of weeks after Cricket review panel suggested “ immediate dissolution of WICB” and the formation of an interim board to look after the working of the board. They have also called for the resignation of the entire board members.

Dave Cameron also pointed out that the success of the regional team was the most important objective.

“There’s still a lot that has to be done … we’re under no illusions that we are where we need to be, because all the great things I’ve told you now, we’re still ranked number nine in One Day cricket, number eight in Test cricket and number three in T20, so we know we have a lot of work to be done, and until we start winning, we’re not going to go anywhere.” he stressed.