The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has cancelled the planned tour match between the West Indies A team and the Sri Lankans because of "flight problems."

No further explanation was provided.
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WICB is ah real cake shop

good strategy, don't give the opposition any further match practice....

so is flight problems involved with getting our players to tobago? planes doan fly to trinidad no more? i thought that place was a regional hub.

WICB is the best

In reply to OVAL291

suh WIndies don't need the practise?

In reply to defeyeant

they gon start using boat soon

Honestly think it's about time WICB is dissolved.. this is the least they can do... and they bungled it up

Well the ferry from P.O.S. only takes about two hours, so there is really no excuse for this.

And the airline has been known to add additional flights based on same day demand...

This is not a transportation problem.... something fishy here...

In reply to ray

All Windians will get practice this weekend except for the Jamaicans!

Are they talking about flight as in aircraft or flight as in everyone cant read Murali

Only the WICB!


Just out of curiosity does anyone know who were the players selected for the West Indies A team?

unbelievable

In reply to ray

ummmm...engage brain b4 u type...a brain is a beautiful ting tuh waste...

did they announce the WI A squad?

Tobago is a dottieeee

Why did they not organise a practice match against a Jamaica XI instead, Jamaica don't have a match this weekend.

In reply to WICFan

... becos Jamaica is at the other end of the Caribbean from Trinidad.

Sheeesh.

In reply to WICFan I believe its a finance thing. This Test match in Guy did not make any money and to have to pay more to get guys together from different countries would have cost some; so the Board may have decided to CALL IT OFF FOR THAT REASON.

Translation: Damn, we just realize that the game is a couple days away and most of the players involved in Carib Beer matches. The only ones available are some yardees and some under 19’s and the yardees following the lead of captainfleee and fraid to face vaas. All parties better off if we call of the match.

In reply to Disciple
Dis cancellation is a shame ..but WICB..what you expect ..life goes on ..

In reply to DAVE400 I just came back from the Shaw Park Ground , now I know the real reason for the cancellation . There is a Backhoe, a Six Tonne Roller and a Man operated Jumping Jack Compactor hurriedly working on erecting a fence on the south western end of the groud. Also just last week Chief Sec. Mr London was quoted as saying that it would be a great challenge to get the ground ready on time.

I think this is a smart strategy, the results of which will be seen later.

We are in the era of off the wall strategies. Gayle did his bit by making Bravo open and dropping himself down the order. It almost worked!!!

very fishy. I can't remember seeing a Team being announced, so who was playing?

And please don't say that WICB is a cake shop. This is an insult to all the hard working people who manage and operate successful cake shops in every little village throughout the Caribbean.

We are playing mind games with Sri Lanka, this is WI best det to beat them - screwing with their brains....

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I really can't believe this. How de f... they expect the team to excel when they cannot organise a simple match.

Hunte should resign post haste!

Well, the half-baked rumour mill has it that Carib Beer demanded that its game (TT v Barbados) be the only game in town.

The WICB buckled and cancelled the A team game. As usual, take half, leave half.

_r

In reply to Admin

Whoever pays the Piper

In reply to Admin

Even more incredible.

This is the first time I noticed that one game was in Trinidad and one in Tobago. In other words, WICB cannibalised its own market.

I cannot believe the stupidity of these guys.

In reply to Admin this is flacking unbelivable, ICC and SL board should cxl the rest of de tour. WHAT NEXT WICB WILL DO???????

GOOD TING CRICKET IN NORTH AMERICA START SOON, AN HEAR DEM SOFT BALL PEOPLE START AREADY

The WICB is a flippin JOKE. Why do we continually put up with this kind of shyte???????

In reply to pufftrini

Man, we just had a test match that had the same level of turnout as a Carib Cup game in Guaracara Park.

Prior to the test matches, what level of marketing was there for this series? They have made no attempt to spark ANY LEVEL OF INTEREST for these games.

It is shameful, but they believe that they have done their duty by getting the Digicel deal (which, year after year, is paying out less than what C&W would have paid), the World Cup money and the television deal.

They are idiots and should be shot with shite!

Why the uproar if Sl doh get a practice match? Many a time WI travle and get one lanky panky game and then go into two test matches. WICB planned dat for once !!

I can say definitively (my bona fides can be testified to by several on this board who know me personally) that the claim that the match was canceled because of flight problems is unfortunate at best and a rank untruth at worst.

The claim about CARIB pulling the plug is also untrue!

In reply to Daya

Expose dem bro.

In reply to Daya

So what are you saying here, that the whole shebang aka WICB is a totally and irrecoverably incompetent and reckless organization that is incapable of getting anything right or is it that SL decided that they didn't feel like playing another game before the 2nd test and WICB simply bended over and took it like JahJah?

In reply to Chrissy
Girl this story is just too hot.

In reply to Daya

Send me some details man.

Will Queen Elizabeth II of England give Tony Howard his knighthood before I get mine?

In reply to Chrissy

check yuh PM

In reply to dcbreds
The management of WI cricket over the past 20 years should be documented and dissected for instructional materials to introductory management student in the region. "
The sub title of the course should be, How not To Manage.

Here's some additional info from Tony Deyal, WICB corporate services manager:

In reply to ray

My mother run a Cake shop and I am convince it is better managed than WI cricket,
Her highest level of education is Standard III.

Is we Board you people talking about

I agree with the WICB to cancel the game. F Sri Lanka.

_r

In reply to Daya

I did - details man.

In reply to Admin

This was a scheduled game, it involves budgetary expenditure on the part of the home team. How can the touring team Call and ask for the match to be canceled? Who Paying these Bills.

This is like someone ordering an anniversary cake from a cake shop and when the Cake is baked S/he decide they no longer wanted it.
A good cake shop would have taken a no refundable deposit.

In reply to Admin

Every explanation seems worse than the last one. Can you please remind them that when they are in a hole you should stop digging?

Wait, this WICB. They accustomed digging themselves deeper in de crap.

Did SL decide that they do not need any further practice matches.

They must have thought that beating the official WI team was easy enough that they can enjoy their break without playing any more cricket....

What a change of events, from WI considering SL as minnows and not playing a Test series with them for a very long time to now SL not needing practice games anymore to face the WI..

In reply to dcbreds

In reply to Admin

In reply to tobesuresure

Listen up here peeps the WICB now has some fifty something million from world cup to play with so who cares about this series and the ones to follow until the money done again let dem grawn cancel the Assie series too and the Sri Lanka ODIs. Management after management same darm thing.

In reply to Admin

I usually try and avoid posting on threads like these given my past wotk history and involvement with cricket in the region. But now that I am "just" a fan like most posters on the MB......

What kind of rassclaat fuckeries are these jokers trying to foist on the public as excuses for the tour match being cancelled. I see my good friend Daya exposing Deyal's liard rass about flights...and trust me, he would know.

Then... what kind of shit quote is being attributed to the CEO? Is yesterday the Board was looking about flights for the WI A team to play a match that was a part of an agreed tour MOU from 5 months ago?

I see people on here talking about management skills this and management skills that....maybe if we had a few less Doctors in charge....the patient wouldn't be so rassclaat sick....

I agree that you can't be a dummy and successfully deal with some of the economic and legal issues that face sports governing bodies....but operations and logistics requires only a good dose of common sense.....which is clearly one of the biggest oxymorons ever.

I weep for West Indies cricket.....we are the fucking laughing stock of the rest of the cricketing world....and no amount of spin, PR or letters of exhortation from the President and CEO before each series is going to make one bloodclaat iota of difference.

In reply to newdread
it aint even funny.

well said

In reply to Runs

yea they did j hunt cpt d nicoholas tony howard c butts a roberts g greenidge b thomas c lloyd omar khan this is the a team the real a

In reply to Admin

that sounds like the big boys scare the little boys the wicb organisational structre in shambles how can u play carib along with another first class poor wicb just cant get it right

haha...Action speaks louder than words...

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In reply to Kurt

In reply to newdread

Thanks for the endorsement!

Now here's an additional perspective. Last year for CWC with ALL the movements that had to take place, the airlines were able to satisfy the demand. Fears of compromised inter island air travel were not realized and for the MOST part everything was sorted out with a minimum of inconvenience. WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE??

Could it be:
1) Professionalism
2) Proper advanced planning
3) Regular, open frank communication.
4) Honesty and Integrity
5) Mutual respect

That which the airlines were able to achieve with your guidance and input was a highlight of my professional life and to now be faced with a situation where rank untruths poison the best efforts of the airlines to facilitate cricket movements in the Caribbean is at very least disappointing. This nonsense has been picked up by Cricinfo and the lie has now been promulgated worldwide.

Nonsense! Arrant nonsense!!!!!!

In reply to hubert

Precisely my point! Both teams had confirmed bookings to Tobago and Sri Lanka is now on holiday there.

In reply to cricket_jumbie

Coach's Corner.

No good players to select for an " A" team.

Ground in Tobago not yet ready.

Lankans prefer to see Tobago than playing cricket.

Carib pulls the Plug on this one.

Take Your Pick

Regards..........COACH

NO FURTHER EXPLANATION NEEDED.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
This one is allowable. No explanation is needed.

One of the few times when they show some common sense. Why provide the opposition with match practice?

I have long hoped (against all hope) that West Indies cricket could shake off the doldrums of the past 10-15 years and once again be a force in world cricket.

Symbols carry much power. This is symbolic of one thing..... the end.

In reply to Star

The West Indies A team would have gotten much, much more out of the match than the Sri Lankans. It's the development of our own A team that's at stake.