Cricket tours often involve reciprocal arrangements between boards over costs. They usually mean the home board pick up the logistical expenses of the visitors, including things like travel and accommodation.<\/p>\n
In the West Indies, costs can be inflated by the need to fly players and officials between islands. <\/p>\n
Cricket West Indies is also hurt by the cost of the TV production. It announced a wide range of money-saving measures, including cuts to player contracts last week.<\/p>\n
“We have to fly all of the equipment and crew into any venue to be able to broadcast a match,” Dehring said. “That is a significant figure. <\/p>\n
“Sky doesn’t have to fly from London to Manchester for one match.”<\/p>\n
West Indies, who cancelled a women’s Test against Australia earlier this year, are yet to announce a schedule for the England tour, which is due to be played in April and May next year and includes three T20s and three one-day internationals in addition to the Test.<\/p>\n
The process in which islands bid to host the next block of home fixtures began in recent days and should conclude in December. <\/p>\n
Dehring said there has been interest shown in hosting the women’s matches.<\/p>\n
“Once we develop a schedule we will know how much it will cost,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It is far cheaper to host everything in one location but one of the allures of the Caribbean being able to travel to more than one location for matches.<\/p>\n
“We are hoping still we will be able to cover from our own resources but it [the Test] would be a certainty if the ECB were to assist us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket tours often involve reciprocal arrangements between boards over costs. They usually mean the home board pick up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}