Calypso Collapso: 2014, the year cricket administration died

At the end of this year, when almanacs are cobbled together, annuals are written and awards for sportspeople of the year are bestowed, you can guarantee that cricket administration will be tarred with one thick and filthy brush. The year is not even over yet, but already it has been one of the worst years for the governance of the game in recent history.

From the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) mismanagement of Kevin Pietersen to the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) big three takeover to the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) pay dispute with its players, the year 2014 will be remembered as the yeamer in which cricket administration well and truly died. It’s not like it was alive in the first place, but 2014 is when it was taken off the life support and its body thrown into the furnace.

South Africa’s cricketing summer currently hangs in the balance. Cricket South Africa are waiting for the WICB to meet with its players and try to sort things out before they try to make alternative plans. The issue will also be brought up at an ICC meeting in mid November. At worse, the ICC could suspend the WICB from participating in all international cricket.
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