Former West Indies fast bowler, turned cricket commentator, Michael Holding has refuted statements by President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron that he has turned down requests to do television commentary.
During a WICB town-hall meeting on Friday at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Cameron insisted that the WICB had not banned Holding or veteran broadcaster Tony Cozier from doing television commentary.
Instead, he revealed that Cozier’s failing eyesight had been the main reason for his absence, while Holding’s commitments to UK company, SKY, had led to him turning down offers by the WICB.
“The issue we have with Mr Holding is that our season runs counter to the season in the UK and whenever we ask him to do commentary he is always working with SKY back in the UK, so as far as they are concerned there are no issues,” Cameron had stated.
However, in a reply on Barbados TODAY’s website after reading the story which was published on Saturday, Holding said he had never told the WICB he was unavailable to do television commentary.
Furthermore, Holding claimed he had not been asked by the WICB to do television commentary since 2012, when the production of West Indies cricket was moved from the hands of TWI/IMG.
“As usual Mr Cameron is being a stranger to the truth. How come after being contracted by SKY since 1998 and working on cricket in the Caribbean since that time until 2012, all of a sudden my commitments to SKY started preventing me from doing cricket in the Caribbean?” he questioned.
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Not true says Holding
In reply to TheTrail
Oh that familiar refrain ...
In reply to Walco
Walco........the truth and nuff people are strangers........why he doan tell the people how much they had to pay Cozier......joker of the highest order.........
In reply to cherri
Seems like Dave is adept at taking actions that cost the WICB money. India tour cancellation, Cozier lawsuit, creation of the position of Executive President, ... What next??
In reply to Walco
He is to learn to zip he frigging lip........everytime he open he rass mout' he does talk bare shit.............
In reply to cherri
In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood, "A Man's Got to Know his Limitations." Dave apparently has not figure out his.
In reply to Walco
Plenty more- wah dem seh again - moon does run 'til daylight ketch he. 
In reply to TheTrail
Cameron is doing a lot of damage to west Indies cricket and past and present players
Look what happened to Chanderpaul--leave the selectors to do their job --what a mess
In reply to TheTrail
The real test will be to see how our Jamaican brothers line up for this one...given certain loyalties. 
I pro Mikey..so i declare my hand as an Onarary yardie.
In reply to powen001
You are honorary a lot of things. It is what you stand for is the problem.
In reply to sudden
oh..tings like Good Governance, Solid decisive leadership and transparency...all tough issues for you Sudsy..this is known and still...I have hope that you will give up your shenanigans and walk the path of truth...it shall set you free.
how dat bony calf looking dese days mate?
In reply to powen001
WTF?
In reply to black
Hes a Lawyer and wannabe Kingmaker of Politicians...
cant help it.
Did Holding once say he will not,do commentary when a certain team was playing or in a certain country or was that a rumor?
Was it just the t20 issue?
In reply to powen001
I tried to mek Meeeeah a king but she demanded in that manly voice that she is a queen.
In reply to sudden
below your standard Sudsy..
besides..with an arsenal of weak tourism minister Sealy, incompetent cant pronounce "TH" Minister of Education who wants to crack heads and shoot a few ppl but NOT spank wayward and to quote him..children filled with demons, Minister Lowe..oh my lord...garbage..no need to add to that...The Speaker of the house...lawyer misuse of client funds issue...Freundel..well..nothing to say as he says nothing, Sinckler...cant add 2 + 2 but in charge of this countries finances...Estwick..hot and bothered, froth..tantrums and frustration, Donville...making points for his candidacy to take over as leader of the Opposition in a few years...the rest dont add up to more than Paddy can shoot at and you got talk for MIA???
man yuh clearly MC ing a Tent dis year with them jokes!!
In reply to powen001
And unnuh still can't win.
In reply to sudden
who gine finance the buying o votes next occasion mate?
all dat money aint gine save wunnuh...ppl will vote wunnuh out more than stop a woman from becoming our first ever female PM.
see BUSH era..
was such a horrible leader that it ushered in the first Black Prez...
likewise.
Freundel..worst ever leader in our history will usher in the first ever female PM.
remember I told you so..and I dont need a poll to see that.
In reply to powen001
What female PM? Billy Miller still in politics?
In reply to sudden
shenanigans , smoke , humor misdirection...all paltry efforts boss.
the record is there to show.
Worst time in Bims history post independence-
Bim in worst positions on several indices with no growth at all and a clueless government who even did worst than the last DLP administration under Sandi who cut salaries by 8%...
as you will hear in the tent you MCing..."Ah Lie?"
In reply to powen001
The tents is the tents. When it comes to voting something different all together. Unnuh can't win an election when every indicator was in unnuh favor. Yuh see Freundel out and about. Yuh see the oil exploration.
When we dun Freundel gine be the savior of the nation and meeeeah the savior of the lgbt
In reply to sudden
watch short memories come to play.
a barely win cause o sympathy last election aint gine save wunnuh this time.
too many people unfaired and the governance alone is more than enough to shut wunnuh out...
and I aint even mention the amount of broken promises...
Bajans in case you forget...simply wait on yuh...but it will be acid next election son...acid.
I expecting certain DLP politicians to lose it on the campaign trail and get into fist fights...mark my words.
Jones will cry again like he did on the last night..but this time...no shock that wunnuh scraped home..cause nothing cant get ppls minds about how poorly yall treated them...from NIS to NCC to Entrepreneurs and victimization reports all across the public service.
but yuh know...there are more DEMS than us BEES...and yes..yall in Election mode already...thats fine..yardfowls still clucking...and history beckons either way.
phew I thought this was another shiv 'record' bullshit thread! thank 'God'.
What is the use of a coach or selectors if lemonade Dave Cameron go override them if he doh like the selections they made?
In reply to powen001
I swear you are like Pinocchio the puppet in more ways than one when it comes to these things.
Like Pinocchio nose, do you actually think you increase in height when you speak these things?
In reply to carl0002
wow- carl. that must have hurt
I am backing my friend Mia to win handsomely next elections...
She will also put powen in his place...very likely bouncing on her knee.
In reply to Commie
Not if I have anything to do with it
In reply to sudden
There comes a time when not even strategy can defy the need for change.
Mia is a brilliant thinker and orator who has been railroaded by her own party leadership in the past.
All the stars are being aligned.
In reply to sudden
Barbados has to be an extremely backward society if you, a failed lawyer in a country where lawyers most probably have to learn to think, could actually be big wig in Barbados. Probably on its way to becoming the Zimbabwe of the caribbean. How is Mia btw.?
In reply to Commie
Rough around the edges. Not a good leader although she appears to have the tools. V divisive. Cannot hold a team together.
In reply to sudden
Thats a strategy of sorts
.
I still think she will win.
In reply to Commie
Only the beginning but watch the ride
In reply to sudden
Btw our resident legal luminary..eric of arima by way of Brooklyn, has words for you.
In reply to sudden
I sense a conservative bible thumping campaign...
In reply to eric365
You are partially right... I am not a lawyer. I see that as multiple E or Pacy you still attack Commie, Courtesy and me. Try another multiplicity of handles and you may score a point. Meeah would love you
In reply to Commie
Mia , a brilliant thinker? Ok if you say so..The same motley Mia who pulled the wool over Bajan eyes stating that Barbados had won at the UN law of the sea against T&T. But then again you even consider yourself a thinker. Try putting an S infront of that celebrated word!!
In reply to sudden
Yes it hurt, cuz we know that will change with wherever the next soundbite come from.
No Yaadie ornary or otherwise is like dat.
In reply to sudden
Who me? Attacking winkin, blinkin and nod I wooden do that.
In reply to eric365
Eric old bean. It may seem that I was talking to you but I wasn't.
Not only is Mia highly regarded but it is likely that a rebuke from you is like an automatic intelligence upgrade.
Walk well old bean..
In reply to Commie
The thing is it will not come from my side. We operate on a two term cycle in Bim. V few defy it. So the voting Gods are in their favor but it also mean in fighting and that gets nasty with Owen still in the background. Talk about fodder for the likes of me
In reply to sudden
Owen still want in?
Cherri dem gine vote allyuh out.
In reply to Commie
He doesn't want in, he wants Meeah and she mudda out
In reply to sudden
What a bitch he is. Powen? Can you confirm in your manliest voice what sudden is alleging?
In reply to Commie
Mia highly regarded? where and by whom? Man you can't make this thing up. This coming from nod who is always asleep at the wheel when it comes to spotting talent and prognosticating.
Bte how is captain Kuk and JC doing? Has captain Ramdin been ditched as yet? You are such a failure in life that when you see a cubic zirconia stone you call your boyfriend-of-the day asking about engagement.
And you have the nerve to call Powen a bitch!!
Am waiting for Dave's response to de stranger comment
You could imagine these ingrates come and hijack de people thread talking bout politics.......it should be a way to get rid uh wunna off the people thread especially the watermout breadfruit swapper sudden...........
In reply to Maispwi
Thats an ongoing battle.
In reply to Commie
Den is time to bring dem together. Can a Holding visit be arranged at a Town Hall Meeting?
In reply to cherri
He cyah help himself
In reply to Maispwi
I would say something but...there is a clear timeline when Holding really changed.
Anyway...this has beef written all over it.
In reply to TheTrail
Usually after someone iae called stranger to the truth, they tend to lose the next election.
In reply to positiveg
Usually after someone iae called stranger to the truth, they tend to lose the next election.
Dave will win the next election because he the leeward and Windward are “strangers to the truth.”
What the heck.
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