Lots wrong here

Long, bad, run-on sentence, describing a sad state of affairs:

No-one can seriously argue either that the decline has been pretty much the result of our indifference and incompetence at all levels, even if we often lean on issues like restrictions in English county cricket and the modification of playing conditions and financial arrangements by the International Cricket Council in the hope of deflecting some of the responsibility for what essentially amounts to complacency and negligence on the part of the people of the Caribbean.

Pretty bad, I agree. The game is down and out, and the malaise has spread to the journalists.