West Indies are "not in the same level-playing field as other playing countries", and an emergency meeting of Cricket West Indies, which included Brian Lara , Clive Lloyd , Viv Richards, Desmond Haynes, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and current head coach Daren Sammy, among others, has ended with a roadmap of sorts in place for a revival, but "it's a long road, it's not going to happen tomorrow". One of the immediate decisions is, as Lloyd said, to ask the ICC for a "special dispensation" - extra money keeping in mind West Indies' glorious past.

While those in attendance at a press briefing at the end of the two-day meeting in Trinidad - CWI bigwigs as well as Lloyd and Lara - said that a lot of ideas were thrown about, it was not yet time to announce them since they had to go through an

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