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HEADLINE: Keith Holder interviews Muirhead
CaribbeanCricket.com
Jan 18, 2016, 1:58:58 AM
Bridgetown, Barbados, January 16 – (www.bcacricket.org) - On Friday, January 8, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced a list of 15 players, who have been given retainer contracts for the period October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.
As a follow-up, veteran journalist Keith Holder conducted a wide-ranging interview with WICB Chief Executive Officer, Michael Muirhead, on his weekly programme, dubbed “Mid Wicket, The Real Cricket Show”, on the Barbados-based Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation radio station (100.7 FM) on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m.
Muirhead took part in the entire one-and-half-hour programme by way of a telephone link-up from the WICB headquarters in St. John’s, Antigua.
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Pacy
Jan 18, 2016, 8:20:01 AM
Nice Interview... CEO had all the answers.
Acid
Jan 18, 2016, 11:37:25 AM
I like how the BCA website has:
Big welcome to all visitors from www.caribbeancricket.com
at the top of the page
BCA seems to have the best managed and most updated website among the WICB members.
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Onto the interview:
So we did offer 15 contracts and they are categorized as you said. They are all performance related. Well, the selectors go through stats and it's weighted with stats and then you have some qualitative things that are also brought into the equation when they are awarding these contracts.
Those qualitative things are for instance, commitment, loyalty, various things that we need to build team spirit and ensure that we have a united team going forward.
Contract Categories ($USD):
150 000 A+
135 000 A
125 000 B+
115 000 B
100 000 C
Jason Holder was denied a NOC - No Objection Certificate, to play in the inaugural Pakistan Twenty20 Tournament.
Now, he is the captain of our ODI and Test side. We have the major OD Competition (NAGICO Super50) in progress and going forward, these are the gentlemen who will be eligible for selection and it cannot be that we omit or we think that very important because he is part of this Competition, and it is our Competition, and therefore we felt that commitment level should be demonstrated by playing in this Competition for Barbados (Pride).
Other players who have not been retained may have been granted No Objection Certificates but in doing so and not playing in our Tournament, they are virtually eliminating their eligibility for selection when the time comes for the selectors to make those hard choices
WICB contracted players for 2015-16 (in order as released by the WICB):
1. Jason Holder
2. Kraigg Brathwaite
3. Rajendra Chandrika
4. Darren Bravo
5. Marlon Samuels
6. Denesh Ramdin
7. Devendra Bishoo
8. Shannon Gabriel
9. Jermaine Blackwood
10.Jerome Taylor
11.Sheldon Cottrell
12.Shai Hope
13.Shane Dowrich
14.Leon Johnson
15.Kemar Roach