The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has terminated the contract of head coach John Dyson with immediate effect.
The board did not offer an explanation for the dismissal. Assistant coach David Williams will take over on a temporary basis for the ICC Champions Trophy. Strangely, the WICB has also replaced team manager Omar Khan for the tournament.
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commentary by DAVID HINDS
This commentary addresses three interrelated issues—Trinidad’s boycott of the WICB meeting and the secession calls coming from that country, the captaincy of the West Indies team and the importance of cricket beyond the boundary. My previous commentary was meant to push the discourse about the current impasse away from the narrow context in which it has found itself. This, to mind, is important for a proper understanding and resolution of the problem. The point I am driving at is that the impasse cannot and should not be seen in a narrow player vs. management terms. To do so is to arrive at narrow conclusions which apportion blame and create a situation of guilt and innocence which is unhelpful to the mediation process. This is not to say that that there is not enough blame to share around. But it’s this inflexibility that doomed the Federation five decades ago and drowned the Grenadian revolution in blood two decades later.
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West Indies cricket has been thrown into further disarray by the decision of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) to stay away from the annual general meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in Antigua today and tomorrow.
The Trinidad Express reported that a WICB director confirmed that the TTCB had written to the WICB notifying them of their decision and giving reasons for it. And last evening at the TTCB's awards dinner at President's House, Board president Deryck Murray spoke publicly about the move.
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