Ricky Skerritt, Cricket West Indies (CWI) president, is lamenting the splashing of cash over the past two decades, saying there is little to show for the investment.
The West Indies, currently in New Zealand on their second Test tour this year, have been accused of not making a significant improvement performance-wise even after an injection of more than US$250m over the past 20 years.
They are scheduled to play a trio of one-day matches, starting next week (November 27), against the hosts before they contest a pair of Test matches beginning December 3.
Skerritt made the shock statement this week during his ‘Reforming CWI For Improved On Field Results’ lecture as part of the 20th annual Frank Worrell Memorial Lecture, which was virtually hosted by the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies, Barbados.
The St. Kitts & Nevis-based former West Indies team manager was voted in as CWI president in March 2019, but he omitted during his rant with facts and figures to mention that the Windies are the reigning T20I (Twenty20 International) world champions.
Skerritt pledged after his win over long-standing and controversial Jamaican Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron: “I’m humbled and deeply honoured to be elected as president, and pledge to work for improvement on and off the field for West Indies cricket.”
This week he addressed the topic online about the CWI and claimed: “The cost of personnel remuneration during the last 20 years has been astronomical. “CWI spent a quarter of million US dollars on our players, coaches, and full-time staff during the past 20 years. This US$250m does