Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard turn down West Indies contracts

[pcfan123]

Nail in the coffin will be when we get the 1st youngster who never plays for a national side (A team included) and gets contracts in various domestic leagues.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

Nail in the coffin will be when we get the 1st youngster who never plays for a national side (A team included) and gets contracts in various domestic leagues.

what's going to be interesting is that the associate nations are in the world cup a lot longer than usual with the format they're using.

could well see some of the non-test nations players get picked up. That's going to cause problems if some of the fringe nations suddenly start following t20 cricket because finally, one of their players is a star. to them, it will be 'why should they care about tests?'

they're racing to get china up to scratch, if a chinese player makes it the IPL before china make it to ODI status or something, the whole thing is going to explode.

 

[King Pietersen]

I don't see the issue here. Pollard rejected the contract because the contract means WICB control how much T20 cricket he plays, and then forces him to play WI A team games and other cricket that although helpful, doesn't really help him that much. Why shouldn't he be allowed to travel round the world playing T20 cricket and making heaps of money? It doesn't mean he's going to make himself unavailable for International cricket to play in the Big Bash or whatever, just that he doesn't want to be tied down with restrictions from the Cricket Board on when and where he can play. It makes sense for a guy like Pollard, and good luck to him. If he can secure his future once he finishes playing the game, with a tidy fortune made he'll be in a very comfortable position. I don't see why he should have to accept a contract that pays him less than he'll be making playing for Domestic T20 sides and then restricts the amount of money he'll be able to make elsewhere.

 

[Biggy]

This is what it's coming to. And they'd be stupid not to take advantage of it. 80k would seem miniscule when you can make multiple times that playing in the IPL/Big Bash/FP T20.

 

[Prithvi]

IPL/ Bigbash/ FPT20/HRV Cup/SBP20/RBST20 should make the national contract compulsory for a player playing in it, except for the retired players.

 

[Howsie]

IPL/ Bigbash/ FPT20/HRV Cup/SBP20/RBST20 should make the national contract compulsory for a player playing in it, except for the retired players.

Problem is players will start retiring at 23 then.

 

[Varun]

The overseas limit in the IPL should be reduced to 2 players in a playing XI and 4 in a team squad. That'd just fix the craze for it. And they should reduce the salary and focus on the development on emerging Indian players.

 

[Prithvi]

Problem is players will start retiring at 23 then.

:laugh.
Or else, they should put a rule that they need to have national contracts, if they're less then 35, cause on an average, most of the players retire at 35.

 

[sohum]

I'm with King_Pietersen here. If they can represent the Windies without having to sign a contract, then why should they sign contracts that are overbearing and don't pay for the amount of value they lose from signing the contract?

If the WICB made it mandatory to have a contract to play on the national team, then one could judge these players as not caring about representing the West Indies. But as it stands the WICB doesn't have enough money to contract a match XI. They shouldn't be offering meaningless contracts.

 

[Dare]

I don't see the issue here. Pollard rejected the contract because the contract means WICB control how much T20 cricket he plays, and then forces him to play WI A team games and other cricket that although helpful, doesn't really help him that much. Why shouldn't he be allowed to travel round the world playing T20 cricket and making heaps of money? It doesn't mean he's going to make himself unavailable for International cricket to play in the Big Bash or whatever, just that he doesn't want to be tied down with restrictions from the Cricket Board on when and where he can play. It makes sense for a guy like Pollard, and good luck to him. If he can secure his future once he finishes playing the game, with a tidy fortune made he'll be in a very comfortable position. I don't see why he should have to accept a contract that pays him less than he'll be making playing for Domestic T20 sides and then restricts the amount of money he'll be able to make elsewhere.

The thing with Pollard is that he wants to play test cricket for the West Indies in the future but all he plays is 20/20 cricket. He will never get called up for the test team without playing any First Class cricket. Anyways it might be a good thing for WI because it might give Sammy some more playing time and he is much better then Pollard.

 

[sifter132]

I don't see the issue here. Pollard rejected the contract because the contract means WICB control how much T20 cricket he plays, and then forces him to play WI A team games and other cricket that although helpful, doesn't really help him that much.

I think you mean doesn't really help his bank balance too much. If he wasn't getting mercenary money for T20 this whole thing would not be an issue, I'm sure he'd be happy to play for the West Indies. It's just greediness, because otherwise Pollard is EXACTLY the kind of player who needs to play more 'A' cricket and be involved heavily the West Indies programmes. But it is his choice after all. If he prefers getting paid to whack balls around while the rest of his game stagnates, good luck to him. He can buy himself more bling and fast cars while the West Indies continue to struggle, but he won't be getting any sympathy from me.

 

[angryangy]

I tend to think if they really wanted Pollard for Tests, they would have picked him by now. He's got a better FC record than Gayle when he played his first Test; about the only difference is that Gayle played for West Indies A. He didn't play well, though.

It's generally accepted that good players stand out quickly in the Caribbean. Plus, they don't play much cricket each year, so if you want to see them grow, you have to get them facing top players while they're young.

It's awfully unfair to change the goal posts now and say you have to build up a tally of runs in domestic cricket. Even their older recruits haven't had to do that.

 

[Dare]

West Indies: West Indies trio may not get board okay for Big Bash | West Indies Cricket News | Cricinfo.com

Looks like the WI cricket board is standing firm on this one. This might bring on another conflict between the WICB and WIPA which would not be good.

 

[angryangy]

Just childish. They can't claim it's to protect the players from injury if they would have them play first class cricket at the same time.

 

[razahood]

Height of stupidity