The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
A sportsperson playing a team sport can exploit his image rights in different capacities. For example, an international footballer can exploit his rights as an individual in their own name, as a member of his club and also as a member of the national team.
The term 'image rights' denotes the commercial use of a person?s name, image, voice, signature, nickname and other personal attributes in advertisements, marketing and all other forms of promotion.
I, Daren Ganga, wish to advise that the statements attributed to me in a report on the CricInfo Web site earlier today about my fellow Trinidadian and West Indian colleague Brian Lara were not only inaccurate but mischievous.
At no time in my interview did I describe Brian as selfish and not a team player. As a matter of fact I complimented Brian for the role he has played in my cricket career and the opportunities that he has given me as captain of the Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies team.
The current dispute between the WICB and WIPA has spawned a number of debates about similar incidents in our recent past. The two that come to mind are the Clive Lloyd-led rebel tour to Kerry Packer?s ?Super Test Series? in Australia, and the Lawrence Rowe led rebel tour to South Africa that followed soon after.
Lawrence Rowe was a physically small man and came up from humble beginnings. He did not posses the brute-strength or the swagger of the great West Indian batsmen that preceded him or those who were to follow. Health-wise, he was a delicate man, prone to allergies and injuries that dogged his career. However, the notion that he is a coward is false.
Ramnaresh Sarwan has no regrets about rejecting the West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) match/tour contract for the Sri Lanka tour.
The 25-year-old right hander, who just inked a deal to join English County side Gloucestershire for the rest of the summer, said he felt a responsibility to support his teammates in the dispute. "Once you're in a team situation and it calls for everyone's support, you can't really run and hide from anything," Sarwan said.
The next president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will be Ken Gordon. The vice presidency will be a straight race between former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd and the incumbent Val Banks.
Gordon, former Trinidad & Tobago Cabinet minister who is best known as an inveterate fighter for press freedom in the Caribbean, was the sole nominee for the presidency. He becomes the first WICB president from the twin-island republic since Jeffrey Stollmeyer held the post in the 1970s.