WICB CEO critical of players
Mon, May 31, '10
The West Indies Cricket Board's Chief Executive Officer Ernest Hilaire painted a glum picture of the short term future of West Indies cricket in an address at UWI's Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. He predicted "three more years of embarrassment still to witness".
"I listen to our players speak, and they speak of money, that's all that matters to them - instant gratification," Hilaire said during a panel discussion on the topic 'Nationalism and the Future of West Indies cricket' at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. "There's no sense of investing in the future coming from them. We are producing young people in the region that we expect, when they play cricket for the West Indies, to be paragons of virtue. That just won't happen.