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The West Indies team has pulled out of their tour of India because of the ongoing payment structure dispute with the WICB and WIPA. The fourth ODI in Dharamsala will be their last game of the series, which was scheduled to have a fifth ODI, a Twenty20 international as well as three Tests.
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Left-arm orthodox spinner Nikita Miller has been called up to the West Indies squad as a replacement for the injured Lendl Simmons for the remainder of the ODI series against India, team manager Richie Richardson said ahead of Friday's fourth ODI at Dharamsala. Miller will be flown in from Sri Lanka where he is representing the West Indies A team. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) had earlier this week tweeted that Simmons, who did not play the Kochi and Delhi matches on account of a back injury, will return home.
"We have decided to replace Lendll Simmons with Nikita Miller. Initially, it was assumed that Simmons would recover in time but it was later revealed that the injury was more serious than it seemed. So we had to fly him home." Richardson said on Thursday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Ramnaresh Sarwan is far from washed up and can still feature in future West Indies’ Test teams.
That’s the belief of Gus Logie, who last week drafted the stylish out-of-favour Guyana and West Indies middle order batsman into the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force side for the upcoming Professional Cricket League (PCL) in the Caribbean.
“I believe so. You never say never and at 34 years old, once you are hungry enough, once you are willing to put the work in, I have no doubt his talent will come to the fore once again,” Logie said when asked in an interview following last Monday’s draft at the Accra Beach Hotel whether Sarwan can force his way back in the regional team.
The West Indies Cricket Board says it fully endorses WIPA as the sole body to negotiate on behalf of the region’s players, and says it will only get involved in the ongoing impasse between the players union and the West Indies squad in India, if invited to do so.
This comes against the backdrop of pronouncements by the West Indies one-day squad currently in India, that the Wavell Hinds-led WIPA no longer had the authority to speak on their behalf.
However, in a letter to players’ representative Dwayne Bravo, WICB president Dave Cameron said that according to the recently signed Collective Bargaining Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding, WIPA remained “the sole and exclusive collective bargaining representative recognised by the WICB” for all persons contracted to play for any West Indies team.
“What this effectively means is that we will only engage in discussions relating to the welfare, working conditions and remuneration of Cricketers with WIPA,” said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by CMC Sports.
The Windies team had written the WICB last week indicating they had lost confidence in WIPA and would seek an alternative bargaining agent. The players are upset with the terms of the CBA/MOU which they have argued will result in a 65 per cent decrease in their earnings.
The ICC's recent concerted campaign against illegal actions has brought it into a position of significant professional disagreement with the agency long involved in its tests. Experts at the University of Western Australia (UWA), whom the ICC relied upon for the last 20 years to develop models and protocols to test illegal bowling actions, have criticised what they call the "ridiculous" secrecy surrounding the new procedures and say they have raised doubts over the reliability of the recent tests that have seen several bowlers suspended from various levels of the game.
The dispute provides a disturbing backdrop to the sudden toughened approach towards the monitoring of potentially illegal actions by the ICC only a few months before the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Leading offspinners such as Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal and Sri Lanka's Sachithra Senanayake have been called in international cricket, while West Indies' Sunil Narine was reported in the Champions League T20.
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