The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket

Message Board Archives

HEADLINE: Bassarath: Government Proposal makes no sense

 
CaribbeanCricket.com 2014-11-26 07:38:20 

Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) president Azim Bassarath said that forking out millions of dollars to host the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 semi-finals and finals for the next two years is not in the best interest of local cricket.

In a TTCB press release yesterday, Bassarath said “Hosting six matches for $42 million does not make any sense to us when we feel that the funds are desperately needed elsewhere, for instance to pay the debt owed to the T&T Cricket Board amounting close to $24 million which has accumulated over the past four years.”

According to the TTCB press release, a proposal currently before Cabinet for the allocation of more than US$7 million towards the staging of the semi-finals and final of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 for two years. The release said “TTCB officials are shocked about the development, saying the returns are questionable on a project which hands over more than TT $42 million to a private foreign entity to stage only six matches in T&T over two years.”


Full Story

 
dayne 2014-11-26 08:01:20 

It looks like Mr. Bassarath knows his math.

 
camos 2014-11-26 08:14:22 

WICB is at the ATM!
lol

 
hubert 2014-11-26 08:23:15 

In reply to camos



Don 't tell me that someone finally woke to the fake $3.00 bill hoodwink . lol lol lol lol lol

 
rillo 2014-11-26 08:47:29 

First statement from Bassarath since he became TT President that makes some sense.

 
camos 2014-11-26 08:49:14 

In reply to hubert
bro! there is hope.

lol

 
Emir 2014-11-26 08:51:45 

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

If Bassarat says its a bad deal then it must be a very good deal.

 
POINT 2014-11-26 17:54:39 

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

This is a classic case of Telling Tales out of School . However I am delighted that he
has talked .

I hope that the Regional Governments are paying attention , and do not intend putting
Taxpayers money into that bottomless Money Pit ,The Worst International Cricket Board
in the World , aka the WICB .