The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
The organization representing West Indian cricketers is so upset with the state of outstanding negotiations with the West Indies Cricket Board that they can protest as soon as this week-end's Carib Beer semi final matches.
Sources here say President of the West Indies Players' Association Dinanath Ramnarine has been intouch with Courtney Browne and the other members of the Barbados team.
Is there a cold war raging within the West Indies Cricket Board?
Ever since WICB President Wes Hall stepped in to overrule team management's decision to send Marlon Samuels home from India for breach of discipline it has seemed more and more that the WICB is a body at war with itself.
For the second time in as many weeks, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has rescheduled the final of the 2003 Carib Beer competition.
The board said the match will now start on Thursday, April 3, one day earlier than previously (re)scheduled.
Antigua's minister of sports Guy Yearwood has lashed out at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for considering an application from Bob Woolmer to coach the Caribbean side, describing those moves as "wicked".
"It is wicked that the West Indies Cricket Board would even entertain, let alone consider an application from Bob Woolmer to coach the West Indies cricket team. I have a personal problem with that," Yearwood said, according to the Antigua Sun newspaper.
With nine days to go before the arrival of the world champion Australians for their tour of the Caribbean, the West Indies team is without a captain, coach or manager and a decision on those appointments won't be made until after a WICB directors' meeting this Sunday (March 30).
Can someone explain what on earth is going on? The first Test in Guyana is about three weeks away and the players have no clue who will be their captain, coach or manager. At this rate, no one should be surprised when we are crushed by those rampaging, clinical, professional Australians.