On the heels of the announcement that the West Indies Cricket Board Inc. (WICB) had suffered losses in excess of US $15 million over the past three years, the President, Wes Hall, now plans to take their case to the ICC.

Speaking to reporters over the weekend upon the conclusion of their two-day AGM, Hall attributed part of the huge losses to the implementation of the ICC's 10-year plan. According to the WICB president: "We do not make any money from those ancillary tours," referring to tours of those Test playing nations other than Australia, England and India.

Hall told reporters that both Malcolm Gray, the ICC president and Malcolm Speed, the ICC's Chief executive, were specially invited to Jamaica to meet with the board of directors of the WICB, where it has been raining ever since the conclusion of the fifth Test match, and heavy flooding -- even deaths -- have been reported.

"We brought them (Speed and Gray), here so that they might better understand our situation." The weather was 'perfect' and bore out the point that Hall, and before him Rousseau have been trying to drive home to the ICC.

"With these ancillary tours coming so late into the year they will have serious financial impact on the WICB. For the simple reason that these tours are scheduled to happen at the start of the tropical hurricane season. [The tropical hurricane season begins 1st June and runs to 30th October]

"We will be providing the ICC with hard financial facts to support our argument," Hall said. "Perhaps it was a good thing that they - Gray and Speed - came when they did. We have not seen the sun for four days now, and it is May."

The WICB is hopeful that the ICC will have another look at its 10-year plan and how it may adversely affect the finances of the WICB. Hall said that the WICB is desperate to return to a break-even position at least following the tour of India.

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