Telling Holding like it is

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Dear Editor,
Michael Holding some time ago boycotted cricket commentaries because Carl Hooper was chosen by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to captain the West Indies team. Before this, Holding declared that cricket should not be played in Guyana because bad weather is always hampering the game there.
Yet, in Jamaica, a Test match against England was called off after a few overs, all because the curator did a lousy job. Holding did not say anything then. So his assessment of Clive Lloyd’s non-favour for the WICB’s role of chairman is most vacuous.
In the words of Holding, if you are a member of a board, and you resign from that board because, according to the board, you are going against their wishes by taking up the chairmanship of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), you cannot then expect that same board to go and vote for you to go and lead them.
So Holding’s position appears to be that a governing body must never come under scrutiny. What Lloyd did is no different from Holding’s reneging on cricket commentaries. He disagreed with the board and opted out.
Further, it appears that the WICB is sympathetic with illegalities and would prefer a local committee in cricket as against an interim body, which is seeking to bring law and order to the fore.
If it is true that both the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) and the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) declined to support Lloyd’s nomination by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), then it is really sad.
The WICB is myopic and did itself a great injustice.
Basil Heyliger
Cricket fan

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