WIPA 'shocked' over Kirk Edwards' expulsion

Labelling it "an abuse of rights", WIPA is reacting with "shock and disbelief" to the Barbados team management's expulsion of Kirk Edwards, following a meeting between team manager Hartley Reid, WIPA President Wavell Hinds, WIPA Director Michael Hall, and Edwards himself.

The crux of the issue appears to be Edwards' refusal to sign a document agreeing that the two match shirts and two match trousers issued by the BCA must serve them for two years, and that the player will stand the cost of replacement in the event of any damage to or loss of these items within those two years. From the WIPA statement:

Mr. Edwards advised us that he did not sign the document ahead of the 2012 and 2013 seasons because in previous years the kit barely lasted two months before getting to a stage of being unfit for use. Prior to his departure with the team, he was asked again by the BCA to sign the document in order to receive his kit, and he again did not do so. As a consequence he travelled to Trinidad without any official team kit.

Earlier, the WICB had issued a bland statement noting only that Edwards "has been withdrawn from the Barbados team". The BCA says little more, other than that the player was sent home "for disciplinary reasons".