St. Vincent PM writes to Chairman of Selectors over Sammys sacking
Fri, Aug 12, '16
Mr. Courtney Browne
Chairman of Selectors
West Indies Cricket Board
Barbados
Mr. Darren Sammy, the distinguished West Indian cricketer, has advised me that, in your capacity as Chairman of the Selectors of the West Indies Cricket Team, you peremptorily informed him in a 30 second telephone conversation that he was being removed as the Captain of the West Indies T-20 Team and that his recent performances did not merit him a place on the team for the upcoming T-20 matches against the touring Indian Team.
I find this shabby treatment of Mr. Sammy to be unacceptable; indeed, I am sure that all right-thinking persons are extremely dissatisfied at your unceremonious and summary dismissal of Mr. Sammy as Captain and player. You simply cannot treat a former captain of the West Indies Test Team and a successful captain of two successive World Cup T-20 Championships with such disdain! Further, your sacking of Mr. Sammy, and the manner of his termination, on the eve of a Test Match in Mr. Sammy’s country, St. Lucia, to be played at the stadium which bears his name, display breathtaking insensitivity.
Elemental respect and common decency demand that once the Selectors had decided to remove Mr. Sammy as Captain and as player of the T-20 team, he ought to have been accorded the courtesy of a dignified face-to-face meeting with you, and his support enlisted for the transitioning to the new captain. Does the leadership of the West Indies Cricket Board or Chairman of Selectors have no sense of professionalism or any inkling of what is right or wrong in professional/industrial relations?
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