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Why the BCCI should use a carrot, not a stick, to WICB

 
shivnotout 2014-10-23 01:11:45 

Why the BCCI should use a carrot, not a stick, in its approach to the WICB



If I was a West Indian cricketer with an IPL contract who had just pulled out of the Indian tour, I would be nervous. In order to appear in the IPL, each player must be issued with a no-objection certificate by his own board of control. If the WICB is of a mind to teach its employees a lesson, it has it right there, in the palm of its hand. But it won't. It is one thing to mess with the BCCI's tour schedules, quite another to play loose with the IPL.

 
shivnotout 2014-10-23 01:13:51 

carrot

 
shivnotout 2014-10-23 01:19:18 

Thus, the action taken by the West Indian players is understandable, if unwise. One cannot help but think that this embarrassment would have been avoided had Darren Sammy still been captain. Sammy may not have been the finest all-round player of the game to grace the Caribbean but he held the cricketers of these disparate islands together.
lol

 
imusic 2014-10-23 01:31:32 

One cannot help but think that this embarrassment would have been avoided had Darren Sammy still been captain. Sammy may not have been the finest all-round player of the game to grace the Caribbean but he held the cricketers of these disparate islands together.

1 - Sammy was one of those that supported the player action

2 - Players appeared mainly unified in their decision to not continue with the tour

 
carl0002 2014-10-23 11:59:11 

The question is whether its easier to follow a puppet down this road or leading a group down said road.

 
camos 2014-10-23 12:10:05 

good article!

 
shivnotout 2014-10-23 14:21:44 

In reply to imusic

What happens next? Will India really pursue legal action? Unlikely. West Indies have no money. More likely, with time, is that the WICB will win over the BCCI