I have been around West Indies cricket long enough to understand that there are too many square pegs in round holes. However, this can still work to an extent but administrators have to understand that honesty in the best way forward for West Indies cricket right now.
Some people must be honest enough to understand that some assignments are out of their league and they need to seek assistance or allow others to take over.
There is a saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Sometimes we come across people who we think are hard workers and very honest people and when we bestow power unto them, they are a different beast.
All we can do is hope for the best but we can help by making sure that the right people or at least the closest to it, are in the driver's position.
People have to understand that not everyone who touts themselves as a good leader is one. Sometimes we have some very quiet and seemingly unassuming people taking leadership positions and being successful.
As an example let me speak a little bit about the president of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) Azim Bassarath.
This very humble man, with humble upbringing has taken leadership of the TTCB and it is definitely the best run cricket board in the Caribbean. I have been around the Caribbean covering cricket and I have looked at the way matches are administered and let me tell you, the TTCB is way ahead in this aspect.
Bassarath came into office without any fanfare and defeated Deryck Murray, who in my mind, was not a bad president at all.
He then easily took care of the former West Indies Players Association (Wipa) president Dinanath Ramnarine who posed a challenge to him. After he defeated a second former West Indies player for the top post, I started to look closely at this man to find out what he was all about.
In the lead up to him defeating Murray, the former wicketkeeper/batsman lost gracefully and accepted the fact that there was something Bassarath could have brought at that point in time.
In the lead up to the second elections, Ramnarine was boasting all over the place that he would win, Bassarath stayed calm and easily defeated him. He then ran for the second vice-president post and also lost and he did, this time to Dr Allen Sammy but not because Sammy was better than him but because the influence of Bassarath winning the top post.
It told to me that Bassarath won because he was doing the job from the grassroots level. Never one to create or call attention to himself, he moves with the people and has brought life into many areas where the sport was dying in T&T.
He remained rooted in his honest belief that cricket came first and it is no shock to me that he is at the helm of the TTCB yet again. What Bassarath has realised is that honesty is the best policy in dealing with leadership.
He has many people around him who were opposed to him and are now fierce supporters.
My guess is that these people have seen what I have seen in the man. He is in cricket for cricket and once you do things with good intentions, good things will always follow you.
I am happy to hear that the new Minister of Sport, Brent Sancho, has seen the good work of the TTCB and for all their troubles under the previous minister, the board can now plan and execute a number of development programmes, which over the past few years they have shared with other cricket boards across the region.
When you speak to administrators from other territorial boards, they always have a good view of the cricket administration in T&T and one must understand that this is no mean feat to achieve in West Indian society.
Bassarath has shown that cricket and people must feature prominently instead of self and this has paid dividends for him.