'CARICOM not doing enough to support cricket

A vice-president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Emmanuel Nanthan, says regional governments are not doing enough to support the development of cricket in the region.

Nanthan's declaration comes as the Dave Cameron-led WICB and CARICOM appear to remain at loggerheads over a recommendation calling for the dissolution of the board by a review panel set up by CARICOM and the WICB.

The WICB appears to be preparing for a legal battle with CARICOM to resist the recommendations of the Review panel by hiring Dominican lawyer Anthony Astaphan.

Nanthan is insisting that the problems with West Indies cricket have little to do with WICB's governance, but a lack of resources from regional governments to fund training.

"It costs the WICB about US$1 million to train a cricketer from the Under-15 level to the elite level in international cricket," said Nanthan, a sports administrator for the past 20 years.

A recent meeting in Grenada between CARICOM prime ministers and a WICB delegation to discuss the panel's governance report made little progress except for an agreement for future meetings.

WICB's defiance appears to have been fired-up following a subsequent board meeting in St Lucia, which also discussed the governance report.