ST. JOHN’S, Antigua –The Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board met in Antigua today, January 10, 2015.

The Board deliberated on a number of matters including cricket, governance, development, commercial and finance.

The Board of Directors approved 12 central retainer contracts for male players as follows:

1.    Sulieman Benn

2.    Kraigg Brathwaite

3.    Darren Bravo

4.    Dwayne Bravo

5.    Shivnarine Chanderpaul

6.    Jason Holder

7.    Denesh Ramdin

8.    Kemar Roach

9.    Andre Russell

10. Darren Sammy

11. Marlon Samuels

12. Jerome Taylor

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Christopher Gayle and Sunil Narine were also offered annual retainer contracts, but they declined.

Selection for central retainer contracts was done on the basis of player performance in the various formats with Test cricket being the premier format followed by One-day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals.

These contracts will be for the period October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015.

A full list of decisions taken at the meeting will be distributed tomorrow, Sunday, January 11.

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In reply to Walco

What is different?

Gayle has never wanted to play cricket for WI except preceding World Cups, for the obvious reasons.

Nothing has changed.

Moving on.

In reply to Commie

We now have a WICB that condones cherry-picking When is the next T20 WC?

In reply to doosra

WICB should follow CSA and hand out 6-12 or so top-up contracts for players who are likely to play cricket for them in years to come i.e. Powell, Blackwood, C. Brathwaite.

In reply to WICFan

We had that before

In reply to doosra

No harm in continuing it.

In reply to Walco

The WI issue with Gayle was about apologizing for statements he made whilst under retainer.

He was never refused a NOC at any point. He then leveraged Portia and Ralph to negotiate on his behalf to regain his place.

the wicb have therefore operated a pretty pragmatic policy except for one crucial thing. If you take the retainer you then become beholden to them.

In reply to WICFan

Send a memo to Dave lol

In reply to doosra

From being outside the Caribbean, it looks like they've made a right royal f*** up with contracts and pay.

Still no sponsors for the Regional game.

Pitches still crap.

The best thing would be for the WICB to be scrapped and a new governing boy put in place.

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In reply to Lenks

In what way?

Why does Dwayne Bravo have a central contract? Doesn't he only play T20???
And test players don't have contracts.

T20 more important than test cricket?