Fresh Start For West Indies Cricket

If a genie had to grant me three wishes in relation of fixing West Indies Cricket, my first wish would be getting rid of Dave Cameron as president of Cricket West Indies. Maybe genies do exist because that wish was granted, as Ricky Skerritt gathered the votes required to unseat Dave Cameron. In fact both Cameron and Skerritt to this day are still surprised by the margin of victory. Cameron had so much bad blood with current and past players that he needed to go. West Indies Cricket needs a fresh face and a fresh approach in order to compete with the rest of the cricketing world. What Skerritt needs to put as priority is to foster a better working relationship with W.I.P.A. and by extension the players. He has already lifted the selection criteria, where a player has to exclusively play in regional competition to get selected. That is an archaic system, where you exclude players who participate in leagues all round the world. I wish Mr. Skerritt all the best in developing and improving West Indies Cricket in the years to come. 

Big club with small club mentality

I was so thrilled when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was hired as the permanent manager of Manchester United but it only tapered the cracks that have been gradually widening. It is absolutely shocking how business as it relates to the football side is conducted. They have allowed players' contracts to run down because they want to save money. Instead of negotiating a new contract, they agree to a 1 year extension. This kind of action indirectly signals to the player that we, the board want to save every cent before we agree to your contract extension.This can affect team morale because the squad of players could interpret that the board only care about their profit margins rather than the players' welfare. That is bad by itself but when they prioritize to which players get new contracts is even more shocking. What have Ashley Young, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones done to deserve new contracts. It can't be that they were with the club for a long time. That is a small club mentality. You know who is more deserving? Ander Herrera and David De Gea. They may end up leaving.  Just shocking! I don't know if the board is to be blamed or the Chief Executive Ed Woodward but somebody at the administration level, has no idea how to run a football club. Manchester United are a laughing stock to the football world, banter for days! I hope that a Director of Football can be hired to run the football business of the club and let good ole Ed conduct the business side