Kieron Pollard, the West Indies allrounder, has been denied a No-Objection Certificate to compete in South Africa's domestic T20 league, after the West Indies Cricket Board made the unprecedented move of levying 20% of the contract fee on any Caribbean player wishing to participate in an overseas T20 tournament.

Pollard, who signed a two-year contract last season with Cape Cobras, was informed of the WICB decision on November 3 by the board's chief executive officer Michael Muirhead in an emailed letter. He is currently still in Trinidad, with the tournament due to get underway on November 11.

Muirhead called the move a "policy" decision, taken by the WICB board of directors. He also said that the WICB had notified all the ICC Full Member boards of this decision.

"The WICB will levy a charge for the granting of an NOC for West Indian cricketers seeking a release to participate in Leagues outside the jurisdiction of the West Indies," Muirhead informed Pollard in the email, which has been accessed by ESPNcricinfo. "This will be an amount equivalent to 20% of the player fee (as defined in the player contract) that is actually paid to the relevant player."

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Great move WICB, how much longer does the region have to develop players through their programs and lose the player at the senior level.

In reply to warr

How do you describe lose them? If they are needed and are contracted it is completely different. When non contracted players go out and use their talent what is the problem?


Pollard, Sammy, Bravo, Gayle, Simmons, Rampaul all have been discarded in no uncertain terms.

In reply to warr

Board had the option to respectfully retain them...it chose otherwise, it chose confrontation, condesecension and disrespect.

Reap what you sow, go tell u friends at Factory Road, they about to reap the whirlwind.

A pox on their houses

In reply to Pacy

what happens when the players doesn't want to sign a contract? Believe me i am not blaming the players, but other boards around the world are taking advantage of us, and we need to protect ourselves.

In reply to warr

You ever heard liberty come thru carelessness?

In other words, they can take advantage of the WICB only because of their own carlesness.

Like u have a woman and abuse and maltreat her..don't bawl when a man come and tek her weh.

Is tek him tek advantage of you, cos u mistreat her, and he sees her for what she is?

In reply to warr

You believe the change is policy is to protect WICB and not to victimize players?

In reply to Pacy

Yes, i do believe that!

In reply to DIEHARD

I hear what you are saying.........but what do you say to the women who leaves the man, who has cared for her and treated her well, for another man with more money?

In reply to warr


but other boards around the world are taking advantage of us......how?....explain........

In reply to warr

You call her a ho

In reply to cherri

really!!!......the rich always tries to take from the poor, to keep them poor!

In reply to NineMiles

Yes, i could name a few whores that call themselves cricketers.

In reply to warr You can not stop a person to seek better wages for himself and family. If these bastards was paying good money to their players, they would not have to seek better pay some where else. Where are the players Union or that matter the ICC? is WICB braking the rules? ?

If a WICB contract pays a player $ 150,000 plus match fees and totals $ 300,000 how can the WICB refuse a noc to players whose IPL, Big Bash league and or other T20 contracts are worth $ 1 million?

Does the WICB guarantee players continued "employment" if they don't make the team after the end of a one year contract ?

In reply to warr

So you really in your heart of hearts believe that for all the money our fellas make overseas that they are being taken advantage of? that the leagues who seek out our players are just really doing it to keep them poor?.......well I would tell you this, I would rather be taken advantage of by the rich and tek dey money, than by this nuisance board bout hey who only want to tek it wey..........

In reply to warr

Name the whores?......it does amaze me how wunna does call people whores and then got issues when they go in the whore house..........

They discard Polly. Bravo,Gayle etc...

Fair enough.

They get jobs elsewhere and wicb get 10%

Now wicb say gimme 20% or I stop you working anywhere?

I say go forth and multiply ..

Court case.

In reply to warr

If you think the way the WICB has handled their T-20 stars is akin to a how a loving man treats his woman.

You wasting time on this MB, u already getting horn.

You need to shut down u computer..and go find u woman

In reply to DIEHARD

Woman done gone to the highest bidder, leff he rass to wonder what he did wrong after caring for her and treating her well.......but he got to understand, that even though you may treat a women good and care for her you cannot on the other hand abuse her and play with her head, a fella will come along that caters to her sanity and your ass is grass.......men does fool demselves from Monday to Saturday and twice on sundays.........

But how is that barring Pollard. He rather not pay the levy and stay home.

He might need to reassess the type of diapers he buys since WICB now biting into his diaper budget.

In reply to cherri



From a woman's point of view.

Thank you for stating it in your usual eloquent way cherri.

The abuse and head games and disrespect... a man will pay for that..with his woman

In reply to carl0002

You did not read the Cricinfo article.

The articles says it was the Cricket South Africa Board that needs to agree to the 20% that the WICB demands first before the WICB will offer Pollard the NOC. Its not Pollard's fault he is not getting the NOC, its the WICB's request to CSA that was rejected.

All of you really bad mind and think its the players that are doing all the 'whoring'!!!!

CSA already had a contract arrangement with Pollard, its the WICB that wants to change the contract terms by making that demand on the CSA.

A change in structure the WICB proposes like this must be done at a higher level, with FICA and ICC involvement, especially if the WICB wants to make this universal for WIndies players outside the WICB and for international players playing in the West Indies. They can't just vraps and drop this now.

Its really poor for commentators to be blaming players for this current issue. All weight should be on the WICB.

In reply to BenGman

The money will still come from Pollard's purse. They are just asking CSA to now deduct and forward to them 20% instead of the previous 10. CSA has nothing to loose here. Pollard still has to agree with CSA to the new changes in his contract...

In reply to Kay

So why then did CSA decline? They do have something to loose. CSA has a contract with the player. If the 20% is coming from the player then Pollard has to agree to the change as well and then Pollard can sue for breech of contract.

That's exactly what the WICB wants to happen... let everything be blamed on the player. The WICB is being very vindictive. They can't just come with this change now. It needed to be done higher up and a long time ago.

In reply to BenGman

They need to loose the knot and pay de WICB de 20%....

In reply to WestDem

Thanks. It should be lose.

In reply to BenGman
Bossman, if Pollard agrees to the 20% levee, he gets his NOC with the 20% deduction written in it. He gives that to RSA and they give him his contract and deduct the 20% and forward it to the WICB. RSA won't give him a contract unless he get his NOC. So Pollard can refuse to give the 20% and stay home and adjust his diaper budget. Or he can agree to the 20% and collect the other 80% and fight the 20% fee otherwise.

In reply to carl0002

But how does this work in the middle of what I understand is a two year contract?

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
I assume they will deduct 20% from each payment he receives over the life of the agreement or until he needs a new NOC. Not sure if they are required to renew their NOC every year. In that case they can't recoup anything from payments he received in the past but going forward they will collect.

A reasoned approach, despite the noise!

In reply to XDFIX

say you buy the argument that WICB invested and needs to recover, how long should they be allowed to collect these fees and should this not be negotiated between the board and the players?

In reply to carl0002

You missed the point (which has later come out more explicitly) that the WICB asked the boards to pay the fee and not the player. Great that the CSA and CA disagrees. WICB doing things the wrong way. So the WICB (and not the CPL) paying the fees for internationals in the CPL !!! LOL. You sure the CPL would want to rework their 20 year steal of a deal contract with the WICB if WICB demands that the CPL now pay those fees? And then let the CPL sue the WICB? Or those fees should just be passed on to the international player in their renewed yearly contracts?

The WICB used this whole saga to push their point. Looking back it was their strategy all along to give the NOC but create dialogue as well. They apparently didn't mind looking a bit greedy in the process.

In reply to camos

No, this should be a Board to Board agreement!

Let me ask one very salient Question :

IS THERE ACTUAL PROOF THAT THE WICBC

DEVELOPED POLLARD SKILLS IN THE

SHORTEST VERSION OF THE GAME ??????

I do not recall that happening , that
being the case , the WICBC is not
entitled to one cent . The WICBC needs to provide , concrete & DETAILED evidence that it developed
Pollard & Other Players talents in
this version of the game .

In reply to BenGman
The initial reporting around this issue was not very clear and I like many others thought that that this was a tax on Pollard's money.

But I do think that WICB have a legit case to request such a payment from cricket boards as they are at a significant disadvantage. Whether or not they could articulate it into some sort of policy is yet to be seen.

In reply to POINT

Please answer these questions:

1 - Who is the sole entity/body that is authorised by the ICC to organize cricket in the caribbean and north america?

2 - Is the TTCB a member association of the WICB?

3 - Does the WICB provide any funding to any of it's member associations?

4 - If the answer to #3 is affirmative, for what intended purpose are these funds distributed?

5 - Which entity(s) would you say helped to develop Kieron Pollard's skills in the shortest version of the game?

In reply to carl0002

Doing that will require reciprocal
responses when other Countries request levies . In essence :

" WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE

IS ALSO GOOD FOR THE GANDER " .

BTW , in this Forum , there is already news that two International Cricket Boards have already rejected the WICBC's request outright .