Talks are set to resume later this week over a contentious transfer fee issue between the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).
The TTCB is supposed to collect transfer fees for three of its IPL players - Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine and Dwayne Bravo.
The sharing of the transfer fee was a bone of contention between the TTCB and the players selected to represent T&T at the CLT20, before their departure for South Africa.
The TTCB is supposed to receive US$150,000 for each of the three players from their respective franchises after they were named in their franchise teams for the CLT20.
It is a wonder why Courtney Walsh is not considered as great a fast bowler as his predecessors or contemporaries. In 2000, he went past Kapil Dev’s tally of 434 Test wickets, and stood at the summit for four years. True, he had legendary contemporaries: if you made your debut alongside Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Joel Garner, and once they quit, they were replaced by the likes of Curtly Ambrose and Ian Bishop, it’s not really your fault that you have to pursue an entire career as a stock bowler, bowling into the wind.
He was not as intimidating as his colleagues, but he outlasted them all, turning out to be the most durable of the crop: 519 Test wickets at 24.44 along with 227 ODI wickets at 30.47 (and an economy rate of 3.83) meant that he was up there with the very best. Walsh survived like no one else did. He bowled 30,019 balls – a tally of 5,003.1 overs – the highest ever by any fast bowler in the history of the game. He was the workhorse around whom the West Indian pace attack was formed. His 132 Tests seems an almost impossible feat for a fast bowler.
The new playing conditions for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) will come into effect with the series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand which starts in Pallekele on Tuesday 30 October.
The amendments have been approved by the ICC Board following proposals made by the ICC Cricket Committee at its meeting in London in May.
It is important to note that the playing conditions are applicable to international cricket and must be read together with the Laws of Cricket. Whilst a playing condition may affect the Laws of Cricket as they may apply to international cricket, these changes are not amendments to the Laws of Cricket themselves.
WIPA Press Release: WIPA wishes to announce the resignation of Mr. Ramnaresh Sarwan from its executive. Mr. Sarwan was a member of WIPA’s Executive from 2008 to the date of his resignation on October 23rd, 2012.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Next year’s Caribbean Twenty20 Tournament, to be staged from Sunday, January 6 to Sunday, January 20 in Trinidad and St. Lucia, will be played under a new format.
The marquee, annual West Indies Cricket Board tournament will feature the seven regional teams – Barbados, Combined Campuses & Colleges, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, reigning champions Trinidad & Tobago, and Windward Islands – in 23 matches.
