The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Robert Haynes has resigned as head coach of the Jamaica national team with immediate effect, according to information reaching CaribbeanCricket.com.
The sudden resignation of the long-serving coach comes less that 24 hours after Jamaica finished the 2005/06 Carib Beer Cricket at the bottom of points standings.
Jamaica's abysmal performance in this year's shortened Carib Beer tournament has quite naturally sparked plenty of talk.
How could a team that did so well last year deteriorate so quickly? That's a question people keep asking. For what it's worth, we don't need long memories to recall that only last season the same thing happened to Barbados.
UPDATE: Another tour, another major delay in releasing monies owed to West Indies cricketers.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has confirmed it has missed payments of approximately US$135,000 in sponsorship money owed to players for the 2005-06 tour of Australia. "This is correct," said WICB CEO Roger Brathwaite in an e-mail exchange with CaribbeanCricket.com. "[A]rrangements are being made to settle by next week."
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has appointed a four-man team of former cricketers to undertake an evaluation of the performance of Bennett King's coaching staff.
The evaluation team will be headed by Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) chief Jackie Hendriks and will include Deryck Murray, Desmond Haynes and Enoch Lewis.
I write to respond to an article by Garfield Myers titled " Why Twenty20 'Big Man'?" in which he acknowledged the emergence of Twenty20 cricket and potential for the region, but encouraged the legends of West Indies cricket who are in support of the upcoming Stanford Twenty20 championship to whisper in the proprietor's ear about investing his money in more traditional forms of the game.
These proclamations, albeit reserved, that Twenty20 cricket is here to stay and that it could, in more ways than one, help to popularise the game in the region, especially at the school level is dead-on right. However, I vehemently disagree with your suggestion that Antiguan billionaire Allen Stanford is investing his money in the wrong form of the game.