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Mitchell: Cameron not the man for the job

 
sgtdjones 2019-01-19 09:19:19 

Mitchell: Cameron not the man for the job

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The for­mer chair­man of CARI­COM’s sub-com­mit­tee on crick­et, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Mitchell, has giv­en a vote of no-con­fi­dence in the lead­er­ship of Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Dave Cameron.

Speak­ing on Star­com Net­work’s Ma­son and Guest crick­et show here, the vet­er­an Grena­da leader said while he had no per­son­al is­sues with Cameron, the CWI top ad­min­is­tra­tor’s man­age­ment style left a lot to be de­sired.

Cameron is go­ing for a fourth suc­ces­sive term as CWI pres­i­dent at elec­tions set for March.

“I don’t have any prob­lem with Dave Cameron as a per­son. We had a very good re­la­tion­ship but as far as his man­age­ment style of West In­dies crick­et [is con­cerned], I don’t have a lot of re­spect for it so I don’t think my po­si­tion on that has changed,” said Mitchell who has clashed with Cameron in the past over his han­dling of is­sues in West In­dies crick­et.

“I think he some­times takes it per­son­al­ly but it’s not to do with Dave the per­son by it­self – it’s his lead­er­ship of West In­dies crick­et that I have prob­lems with and I would not be able to change my po­si­tion on that par­tic­u­lar is­sue.

“I don’t think his at­ti­tude and mind­set will take West In­dies crick­et for­ward and that po­si­tion has not changed. If any­thing, since I left [as sub-com­mit­tee chair­man], every­thing I’ve heard has re­in­forced that po­si­tion that I held be­fore.”

Un­der Mitchell’s chair­man­ship, CARI­COM au­tho­rized the con­tro­ver­sial Gov­er­nance Re­view Re­port which among oth­er rec­om­men­da­tions called for the “im­me­di­ate dis­so­lu­tion of the West In­dies Crick­et Board and the ap­point­ment of an In­ter­im Board.”

Mitchell then led ef­forts to have the re­port im­ple­ment­ed but was met by fierce re­sis­tance from Cameron-led CWI which brand­ed the chief rec­om­men­da­tion as “im­prac­ti­cal” and an “un­nec­es­sary and in­tru­sive de­mand”.

Un­der Cameron, ten­sion be­tween se­nior play­ers and the board has wors­ened, while the in­ter­na­tion­al men’s team has con­tin­ued to lan­guish near the bot­tom of the Test and one-day stand­ings.



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POINT 2019-01-19 11:48:16 

In reply to sgtdjones

In this Forum since January 2003 , I
have continuously stated that there
needs to be a Complete Restructuring
of:

ALL CRICKET BOARDS IN THE REGION

THIS OBVIOUSLY INCLUDES THE WICBC ,

THE WORST INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

BOARD IN THE COMMONWEALTH .

Just imagine this freaking fact :

SINCE ITS FORMATION IN 1928 , THE

WICBC HAS NEVER CHANGED ITS

STRUCTURE , NOR IT MODUS OPERANDI .

The current MIMIC MEN relish Aping
the behaviour of those who founded the WICBC .

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE

PIGMENTATION OF THIS LOT . THEIR

THINKING IS THE SAME , LIKE THOSE

WHO FORMED THE WICBC , THE CURRENT

LOT BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE TOTALLY

SUPERIOR TO OUR PLAYERS IN EVERY

RESPECT .

They and they alone are blessed and
empowered to govern West Indies Cricket , without an iota of input
from the Our Players who are treated
like Serfs .

WHAT IS EVEN WORSE IS THE STARK FACT

THAT THERE ARE GOVERNMENTS IN THE

REGION WHO SUPPORT THE WICBC FOR A

FEW TOURISTS DOLLARS , THEREBY

DEMONSTRATING TO ALL & SUNDRY THAT

THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO INTEGRITY

OR BACKBONE .


THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT IN MY

MIND THAT HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND

TO THESE GOVERNMENTS . THEIR

ATTITUDE & BEHAVIOUR WILL HANG LIKE

MILLSTONES AROUND THEIR INDIVIDUAL

AND COLLECTIVE NECKS .