I feel somewhat compelled to post on this matter seeing that I have had an unholy alliance with both cricket playing teams, India and West Indies which puts me in good stead to offer an opinion and address the concerns of this 'cricket crisis' on this board.
Firstly the WICB must be held culpable and they must be dealt with accordingly. A new board, new structure of governance for the WI team is needed, most of their procedures and doctrine are from the colonial period when the islands were all united under British rule with all the West Indian nations gaining independence and in some case republic federations the body to drive this forward must be CARICOM. The cricketing world needs a strong WI team, a strong English team and a strong Australian team, only then will cricket be complete.
The WI players must also be punished if they were professional they would have waited after the tour was completed to protest. Why didn't they protested before? Seemingly most were preoccupied with making money in the champions league ( another waste T20 league) and apparently couldn't care less or did not attend the players AGM! WIPA represents the players, its their sole responsibility to ensure the WIPA head works in their best interest, the WICB has absolutely nothing to do with this. It is also disappointing, embarrassing and outright shameful to read in the headlines that the BCCI hierarchy got involved with the WI players dictating whether they played or not. Finally the present WI players are not and have not played any good cricket in recent decades for team WI, there have been the good games in between but mostly disgusting they have not played to their ability when representing WI, with the advent of T20 most if not all the players have chosen IPL and similar leagues over WI, absolutely no loyalty, so we ask the question do they deserve to be compensated well at all? Verdict they should all be suspended for a year, not allowed to play in the IPL, unlikely this will occur because the WICB wants that 10% cut from the IPL!
Finally the BCCI. They brought this upon their own selves since they have bedded the WICB, this is the backlash, commendable they seem to stop the 2016 tour of the caribbean hopefully they play a top team for a change like traveling to Australia or South Africa. They should be punished for influencing the WI players on tour and an investigation must occur into this matter. Since this can all be a concoction of the BCCI to show other boards how powerful they really are. Verdict, highly unlikely the BCCi will take legal action against the WICB for compensation, when this is finalised we ask ourselves who is to gain most from this entire episode? Do we really think that 65mil US will severely affect the BCCI coffers?
I will not be replying further to this post, sorry, I know its unfair to other posters but forgive me.
I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy Divali.
All the best for christmas and wishing a prosperous new year, 2015.
