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HEADLINE: The telling timeline
CaribbeanCricket.com
Oct 26, 2014, 4:49:26 AM
AS West Indies cricket teeters on the edge of extinction, with the president of the board, his directors and the players all seemingly unaware of how close they have brought it to the precipice, yet another independent committee has been given the challenging job of trying to save it from itself.
At its emergency meeting in Barbados on Tuesday, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced it would set up an imposingly designated Task Force, “comprising critical stakeholders”, to review what it euphemistically described as “the premature end of the tour to India”.
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doublecentury
Oct 26, 2014, 6:18:09 AM
Good article. But it suggests Cameron was willing to call off the tour before the first one day match, while the BCCI were able to persuade the players to continue. After that he tried a replacement team and everything other than responding to the players.
Indeed they were playing when Pybus and Richardson confirmed the tour was off.this makes it seem that any genuine attempt to engage the players would have saved the tour but Cameron's aim was confrontation to break WIPA and the players.
The players seemed to have been goaded into threatening strike and then had their bluff called ..
We will need players ...but we don't need Cameron and his attitude.