President of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA), Conde Riley, is wrong to ask for the immediate sacking of West Indies head coach, Phil Simmons.

I have great respect for Mr Riley, who has served Barbados and West Indies cricket admirably for more than 20 years, but his utterances this week were, in a word, irresponsible.

Mr Riley’s comments have created an issue where there should be none.

Here are the facts as I understand them.

Simmons had a death in his family and there was a funeral which would, if he were to go, place him at risk of contracting COVID-19 because he is now outside of the bio-secure controls at Old Trafford, Manchester where the West Indies cricket team is staying ahead of a three-Test series against England.

Once outside of the bubble, Simmons (and the coach must have been fully aware of this, put himself at the risk of adding to the 313, 483 cases of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

over reacted.

sounds less than professional and hyper and not to mention ignorant.


poor poor form on Condes part

In reply to powen001

I would go further. It is not ignorance on Riley’s part, it is MALFEASANCE. This was deliberate and Trump like behavior which leads me to wonder exactly what kind of negative impact did the Big Idiot’s defeat have on this chap.

In reply to Dukes

If you only knew....

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

I put 2 and 2 together and I mek 22!!!!!!!

In reply to Dukes
Doc, Ryan wrote about Riley over a decade ago.
Here are two archive to Ryan reminded us about Conde Riley
In reply to powen001 Yes, hush. You straddling the rasshole fence again. First you agree with "due process" then you disagree with it. Conde is a skunt and you know it. And then two seconds later, you don't know it.

The Conde Riley non-resignation (Shysterism 101)

In reply to Dukes

Conde was always....well Conde