THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) wants the recommendations of its Cricket Review Panel implemented post haste, and has asked the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to fast-track a meeting between the organisations.According to Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell, chairman of CARICOM’s Cricket Governance Committee, the WICB has already been approached about the meeting.
WICB president Dave Cameron had said his organisation would be discussing the findings and recommendations of the panel during its December board meeting in St Lucia, but Mitchell is adamant that the findings were too important to wait until then.
“That (December meeting) can’t be a demonstration of the urgency that we seek and the heads certainly are looking for an urgent meeting to look at it going forward, so I expect that we should be seeing a much earlier meeting than the West Indies Cricket Board president had in fact indicated,” said Mitchell.
The major talking point of the publicly released report from the panel is the recommendation that the WICB be disbanded, with an interim board put in place with a different structure.
According to the report, the current structure of the board is a ‘now proven, obsolete governance framework’.
“The prime ministerial sub-committee, together with a few other heads, have consulted and agreed we should write the West Indies Cricket Board for an urgent meeting with the sub-committee and any other heads who wish to attend,” said Mitchell.
“Some heads have expressed they want to be there, that’s how seriously they are taking it, and they expect to have this meeting very soon to look at going forward.” (Sportsmax.com)