BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):

PRESIDENT OF the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and Cricket West Indies (CWI) director, Conde Riley, has expressed disappointment that the island will not host any matches in the West Indies Championship for the second straight year despite being the home of the defending champions.

He suggested that the decision demonstrates a lack of vision.

Former opening Test batsman Philo Wallace went further, suggesting that Barbados was “being ostracised”.

Speaking on Mason and Guest radio show on Tuesday, Riley said it was “disappointing” that the country was not selected to host any games, specifically given that Barbados Pride are defending champions and the crowds that usually turn out for games.

Pressed by host Andrew Mason to say who lacked vision, the cricket administrator responded: “Whoever decides on where cricket is being played and the defending champions can’t have one game, two games, I leave it to them.”

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Are they referring to franchise cricket? CWI has no say, those rights were sold.

In reply to Overthrow

badders, exactly which rights were sold?

In reply to sudden

Is Riley suggesting that it is well recognized fact that the only two considerations utilized for a decision to decide venues are who are the defending champions and who gets good crowds to games.

I would ask Mr. Riley the following questions

1.do you know the person or persons responsible for these decisions? (Rhetorical question)

2.Did you ask them the criteria used to come to these decisions?

3.Did you tell them that you think the only two criteria that should be utilized are those stated at the top of this post?

There is a 4th question that I might want to ask him but in the interest of civility I would not mention it!!!!!!!

In reply to Dukes

I'll ask my first few questions and team up with you:

1. Is the cost of hosting this tournament a major criteriom in this decision making?

2. How does Barbados compare with the chosen venues, costwise, bearing in mind a seriously cash strapped CWI?

3. Was there any cost recovery or positive revenue considerations?

In reply to sudden

So Conde pointing at himself?

My Question

Could it be that Conde is right?

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

In reply to Overthrow

again Badders, exactly which rights were sold?

In reply to sudden

providence stadium. oil money lots of it

'Eat a food' culture pervades the plantations!

In reply to Dukes


yuh have to luv de Colonel. how can you beat this reasoning

In reply to sudden

The fact that Roland Holder was also poor in explaining the decision making process does not absolve Riley from his utterances.

In reply to sudden

I would also like to be educated about accomodation costs for the tournament before making any other comment...bearing in mind "decision making is not always about technical considerations but can purely be political."

I would not dimiss Conde without knowing all the facts on the table.

Too many Cawmerians!

In reply to sudden

In reply to Dukes



Conde and by extension Barbados, may very be the victims of ostracization as a result of badmindedness by CWI...

We don't have all the facts.

In reply to Dukes

i understand he has completed his legal degree with a London Law School but i dont know whether Philo has his practicing certificate yet

he will now be required to do a conversion course before he can read for his LEC (practicing certificate) with UWI if he is going that route

In reply to Dukes

from all reports Philo is a bright fella or so he says

A sad thing....from Germany to China everyone taking up cricket on a big scale and WI downsizing and cash strapped....they need to look at USA for financial assistance.

In reply to openning As a member of CWI it is highly inappropriate to make a public statement like that, if he is doing any work in the organization he should have known of the decision before it became public and get his chance then to discuss. I am sure there are directors who are not satisfied with every England team going to Barbados, but no one goes home to complain.

In reply to camos
This English tours will most likely have matches in Barbados and Antigua, just like India matches in Guyana and T&T.
Regional matches are somewhat different, usually Home and away tournaments.
Is there not a bidding process for international matches?

In reply to openning

In reply to openning

You do know Conde is talking about regional matches

In reply to sudden
I am aware, I listened to the program, he mention England tour, stating that Barbados was one of the Island able to host such a large group of tourist.
Of course he stated, he did not went to school in August, not once by two times.

In my opinion what makes the NBA, Super Bowl, MLB, cricket World Cup or football World Cup exciting is the fact that the final is not based on who is the defending champion. Mr Riley needs to understand that beating your opponent on the road is far more exciting than winning at home. So they should concentrate on winning on the road again and organize a national motorcade to welcome his winning team home

In reply to Sylobaby
Can you name a team in the NBA, NHL, NFL, Surrey, Ken, Mumbai, NSW, that don't have home matches?
Conde is not speaking about the final matches, the Pride will be playing 4-games, none of them at home.

I loved Condi, he sa he did guh school in August. Some went to school at the pipe.

If regional cricket isn't going to be played in Barbados etc. cricket in the Caribbean is really on it's knees.

What's the point of pitch curators? How are regional players going to get accustomed to playing in various venues that are often different like Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica?

Even in a truncated competition, each side should be playing games at home.

They should have included The Academy side and had 6 fixtures. 3 at home, 3 away.

this was clearly a slap in the face of the defending champions conde and the current wicb management don't like each other they should put that shit aside and concentrate on cricket matters

Is it cost or player exposure to different venues and pitches?
Why play at Diego Martin?
CWI digging deeper and deeper. Soon they will come out in China.

Sportsmax discussion

I want to see him run for president...it look like bim go be the center piece of all matches base on his argument

Look like Bim would be the India for west indies cricket ...

In reply to Wasp

If the future is hosting Regional Tournaments in a couple of territories to cut costs then it needs to be as fair and even as possible.