World T20 win highlights friction between players and WICB
The euphoria that swept through the cricketing Caribbean following last Sunday's men's team's victory snatched from the jaws of defeat in the World T20 final in Kolkata has been accompanied by the heated, long-running debate over the future of the West Indies board.
The two were simultaneously linked at the presentation formalities by captain Darren Sammy's impassioned denunciation of the WICB as he received the trophy for the second time in three tournaments. Dwayne Bravo's subsequent descriptions of the WICB as "the most unprofessional board in the world" and of board president Dave Cameron as "immature", "small-minded" and "arrogant" added fuel to the fire.
They were combative words that drew inevitably sharp responses from Cameron and his vice-president Emmanuel Nanthan. Cameron released a statement on behalf of the WICB, apologising to the "millions of fans who witnessed it… for what could be deemed inappropriate comments" by Sammy. He went further with a typically biting tweet to the captain: "When is the last time a critic paid one of your bills? Always remember that when you start to give your energy."