Fans caught in the middle

Sun, Aug 14, '11 by TONY CROZIER

AS ONE who has written as many words to fill the public library on behalf of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), Dinanath Ramnarine's comment last week suggested that the penny had finally dropped.

"Cricket fans are not hearing much about cricket these days," WIPA's long-serving president and chief executive said prior to Monday's start of negotiations with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and memorandum of understanding (MOU).