JS Barker writes in Summer Spectacular, his 1963 book on the West Indies tour of England that year about the troubles in getting the team together. The team was selected seven months before the tour, at which point one player was in Japan (Conrad Hunte), two were in Australia (Sobers and Hall) and some in England.
.. the geographical separation of one territory from another by hundreds and thousands of miles of ocean does pose tremendous, and unique problems to the administrators of West Indian cricket, particularly since the West Indian board exists in a permanent state of chronic bankruptcy.
I felt mildly surprised by the last few words. Don’t know why.
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