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11 Oct 2014 09:57 #217973
by chairman
Disgruntled with its Players Association due to an ongoing pay dispute, the West Indian team sought the Cricket Board's "urgent intervention" to dissolve the body as it no longer had the "authority to speak" on the side's behalf.
The Caribbean side, which is currently playing an ODI series against India in New Delhi, had threatened to go on strike on the eve of the ongoing five-match series due to the new contracts handed to the players, which would have seen their salaries drop by 75 per cent.
West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo has written to WICB president Dave Cameron, asking for the WIPA to be dissolved as the team feels "hoodwinked" by the manner in which it agreed to the new contracts without consulting the players.
"We write to you to make a conscience appeal to fair play and justice and to seek your urgent intervention in helping to remedy the emerging impasse between ourselves and the West Indies Cricket Board," Bravo wrote in the letter published by ESPNCricinfo.
"It is our view, given the circumstances of the formulation and finalising of this agreement, the WIPA Board needs to do the right thing and resign. We wish to formerly advise you that WIPA has no authority to speak on our behalf … We will advise you of the person or persons entrusted with the responsibility to act on our behalf shortly.
"As you may be aware, we have demonstrated much restraint in this matter in trying to get our former representatives (WIPA) to fix this travesty but unfortunately this has not occurred. We are hopeful that, with your intervention, the matter can be resolved without public or other recourse. In the meantime we will continue to seek advice."
Bravo said that to continue with the series is an "an act of good faith" by his team and should not be seen as acceptance of the new contracts.
"Our decision to play in India was in no way intended to convey an acceptance by the players of the unreasonable terms and conditions put forward to us by WICB nor was it intended as an expression of our acceptance of the purported new Memorandum of Understanding," the letter stated.
"We believe this to be a sensible and reasonable option in the interim, while we negotiate new terms and conditions that have been properly ventilated," he wrote.
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11 Oct 2014 10:25 #217975
by mapoui
Brilliant! they are going to fight!
yes sir! hike whinds skunt...toss him right over board. what a waste!
start afresh and look to expand and include all the first class players in the region into a new association. they all mus' be paid but not from what the payers have already earned..but from general wicb revenues. what the players have already earned is a standard that must not be reduced but increased..
if any standing level must be reduced it is the salary structure of the wicb bureaucracy an it's expansion of personnel. there is a great deal of over payment up there as well redundancy and overlap of functions in that body. in this process we all might as consider too the disbanding of the wicb itself and a restart with a new administrative format..not just the reconstruction of the players union
the source of all the trouble in west indies cricket is the wicb itself. all the nastiness in west indies cricket starts and flows like a river from the wicb bureaucracy. it is poisonous snake that wicb. it is time to hit it on its head and kill it dead.. and make a new, fresh start
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