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West Indies players will be offered more flexible and enhanced contracts, including exclusive retainers for Test and limited-overs cricket, according to a new Cricket West Indies policy. The highest-paid category will be for players who feature in Tests and ODIs, with a maximum retainer of over US $300,000 including match fees. The four-man selection panel, led by Courtney Browne, has shortlisted players for every category, which is expected to be made public soon.

The new contract policy is one of CWI CEO Johnny Grave's visions for the board, along with the previously-announced amnesty. The policy has three levels, and will initially last for nine months. The new contracts will be offered on July 1, 2018, at the same time as the domestic retainer contracts.

The contracts have been split into three categories. Category A will comprise players who play predominantly Tests and ODIs. Category B will be for only Test players, while Category C will cover players featuring in only ODIs and T20s.

ESPNcricinfo understands six players have been offered first batch of white-ball contracts (Category C): Carlos Brathwaite, Jason Mohammed, Evin Lewis, Rovman Powell, Ashley Nurse and Kesrick Williams.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Sounds promising.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I know everyone wants to know why those 6 players were chosen, here is your answer:


Grave further explained why only six players received Category C contracts, highlighting they were solely chosen by the selection panel. "I create paper work and numbers, selectors chose those to award contracts. Jimmy (Jimmy Adams, CWI director of cricket) and I weren't involved in that.

However the logic behind those is - Carlos, although he is not in ODI team, is our T20 captain, Jason [Mohammed] is the ODI vice-captain and Nurse has performed well this year in limited-overs cricket. Evin, Rovman and Kesrick are upcoming players. We want to offer incentives to want to play and be loyal to West Indies and not T20s leagues, which, for good reason, are already after their talents."

I guess the major idea is make compensation packages competitive so as to attract WI best players, in order to form the best available team.

Copied for clarification on decision pertaining to Senior Players:


None of West Indies' high-profile players have been offered contracts yet. Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Samuel Badree and Darren Sammy will all be offered pro-rata contracts based on their performances in the upcoming series in the short term.

"Sammy and Bravos don't play for West Indies at the moment, so we can't offer contracts to people who are not in the team," Grave said. "Pollard, Narine and Badree are only in the T20 team, (and) white-ball contracts are for those who play ODIs and T20s. It's a view of the selectors that both Pollard and Narine have to show form in the Regional Super50 one-day competition to regain selection in the ODI team. If they play that tournament and perform I don't see why they wouldn't get recalled.

So Narine and Pollard have to play in Regional One Day tournament before they are eligible for selection?

In reply to camos

Yep

In reply to camos

I think that they might be trying to avert another Bravo Jr scenario by refuting any public disclosure of individual player's contract, although it was mis-information from CWI Boss that fueled the fiasco.

In reply to camos

None came to mind but contractual obligations could contain various non-disclosure clauses as deemed necessary by both parties. However fans want to know the details of each player's contract for comparative reasons etc.

In reply to Slipfeeler

Narine asked to do so, and Pollard should be required to.. Based on form and past performance..seems fair

So i suppose no red ball cricket for Evin Lewis for the foreseeable future?

In reply to camos

Has it occurred to you that the players might be the ones insisting on non-disclosure of their salaries?

In reply to Star

No expertise. But the players will have to disclose their incomes at tax time, but I was under the impression that player earnings from CWI are exempt from taxes in the various WI territories. Not sure about that though.

In reply to Priapus

If WI wants to make the WC then all should be done to ensure Lewis plays.

In reply to Andy99

yep both promising and reasonable.
I don't think why a player who wants to see WI come good, wont' be willing to play the Super 50 at least a minimum number of games then play WC qualifiers.

In reply to Slipfeeler

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How much each players gets, however, is calculated based on the number of matches they play.


This may be a case of old wine in new skin including match fees to inflate amounts.
If a player can earn up to $50,000 for playing 1 T20 tournament why would he sign a white ball retainer.

Most reputable workplaces i know of keep employees contracts including salaries confidential...

In reply to Kay

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This shows there is no secrecy but transparency with the ECB. There cricket has to compete with other sports for talent so the rewards of playing and aiming for the top should be known so individuals can decide if to pursue cricket as a profession.

It also shows that Windies is two years behind the ECB in restructure of retainer contract system.
[[b]b]Note that every contracted player's salary and match fee is given no secret.
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