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How on Earth do these situations arrise?,could this not have been sorted?,who will suffer, the Windies supporters, and cricket itself.
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My first post here. So hi to all!!
This situatiosn arise when you have an incompetent board.
There incompetence has manifested itself for the last 15-20 years or so and only now people are finally seeing it.
They were incompetent during many of the years we were the best ever but the team papered over the cracks.
Now the team is losing, no one can hide
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Cricket is nowhere near as popular as it was in the West Indies, other rival sports from th US have taken their toll on attendances at Test matches, this could be just the nail!!!
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Incorrect.
Cricket is just as popular in the Caribbean.
People may watch US sports on TV but in terms of participation, cricket holds on to its #2 spot behind football. Yes, football was always #1 participation even during the 70s and 80s.
Don't assume how good a country is at a sport is commensurate to its worldwide success in it.
Other factors like the econmy and price and time taken have affected match attendance. Plus the decline in overall quality. A spectator sport still has to produce the good for people to watch it.
For years, the WICB would dilly and dally when it came to paying players.
In fact, there are still members of the 70s/80s squad who are allegedly owed money.
Players sought to get personal sponsorship deals to put food on their table.
Now because Digicel want everything, they've pushed the buton to have those it doesn't like out.
Now, a Digicel contracted player, Chanderpaul, looks set to be named captain.
The players collectively through their union have presented a case to the WICB as to how much they want to ensure that an issue likes this never happens, yet the WICB is not playing ball.
Furthermore, it keeps losing money, year after year, a fact noyt due to any payments to players.
Yet its own books are not open to scrutiny and the issue of monies paid to board members and monies lost in bad investments by the board are shrouded in secrecy.
On top of that C&W have said they did show the WICB their personal contracts, so to use that as an excuse is folly.
It doesn't surprise me it has come to this.
The idea that a player can't have a personal sponsorship contract and be part of a team sponsored by a competitor is just silly.
Loads of footballers have boot deals with companies who are rivals to their clubs sponsors.
A month ago, Larqa just scored the best ODI century of 2005 so far in a Digicel shirt so this issue is about incompetent people going power mad and doing their worst for a proverbial 30 pieces of silver.