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CPL's Legacy
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 13:11:40
The recent flood light debacle at Providence, Guyana—which not only cost Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) the game but a place in the finals—has rightfully stirred emotions and outrage among cricketing fans across the Caribbean.
I would say this is rightfully so, because this debacle, for me, is the culmination of a lot things that are wrong with the current T20 set up, which CPL currently operates.
I recall when the WICB and later CWI managed the regional T20 tournament with regional territories competing for glory and national pride and immense talent bursting at the seams.
The details of this deal are a major source of contention and the CPL needs to clear the air on whether Cricket West Indies (CWI) signed over the Caribbean T20 rights to them for 50 years and has so far only earned a paltry US$1 Million. Yes, you heard that right.
Packages for games are sold to Caribbean countries who pay millions of US dollars per year, to host these games. Further, these territories are made to cover other ancillary costs such as ground fees, fire, police, transport and other major logistics.
So, when you see five games hosted locally or a country is granted eliminators and finals, know that it is millions of your tax dollars being utilized there.
Dr Keith Rowley, our prime minister and chairman of the Caricom Sub-committee on Cricket, also recognized this problem and at the Caricom Cricket Conference, made a definitive call for CPL to be revisited.
Dr Rowley stated: “it is absolutely essential for West Indies Cricket to reopen the CPL contract and to look at the resources available to West Indies cricket. That lopsided contract must not stand.”
This was echoed and supported by Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados as well as CWI President Mr Kishore Shallow.
While all of this is happening, under the CPL, territorial rivalry has grown to dangerous proportions, with violence breaking out at matches and the most recent Providence debacle. This not only diminishes all credibility from the CPL but brings our beautiful game into disrepute.
Time to hold CPL to account for T20 management
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 13:15:02
In reply to Jumpstart
You seem to care an awful lot for a tournament you supposedly boycotted. 
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 13:16:18
In reply to SnoopDog
this is a thread for big people homes, not babies
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 13:22:47
In reply to Jumpstart
Speaking of babies. I tell all my Trini side chicks that I and I will NEVER agree to no gawdamn paternity tests.
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 13:29:07
In reply to SnoopDog
boy if a trini considering a creature so infantile, then things rell bad with her.
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 13:30:42
In reply to Jumpstart
Things so easy in Tittie even yuh boy Jeremy would be beating them off with a stick.
BeatDball
2024-10-04 13:38:47
In reply to Jumpstart 
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 13:40:02
In reply to SnoopDog
yes....we have a lot of guyanese immigrants(who don't seem to be flocking back to little dubai) so i guess they are attracted to a familiar face and voice
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 13:43:08
In reply to Jumpstart
I'll tell you one thing Bro.
A Trini woman with a wedding ring on is the ultimate green light for Guyanese men. Take it to the bank.
doosra
2024-10-04 13:58:53
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:03:22
In reply to doosra
Yep. Dem Titties are saying Abu Bakr's ghost is plotting another coup.
StumpCam
2024-10-04 14:09:01
In reply to Jumpstart
What you all missing from the big picture, is that all this done to accomodate players who felt they weren’t earning enough and subsequently abandoned an international tour!
And to repay said host who was left holding the proverbial bag!
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:12:42
In reply to StumpCam
Yuh kick Jumpy in the nuts with that one Bro.
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:15:14
In reply to StumpCam
What you all missing from the big picture, is that all this done to accomodate players who felt they weren’t earning enough and subsequently abandoned an international tour!
Ey breds, trinidadian players were earning enough.....even outside of WI cricket. by 2013, cooper, narine, bharath, bravo, narine, rampaul, badree, lendl simmons and other either had contracts in the ipl, bpl or in the t20 blast. they got that by beating everyone else and performing in the champions league. if most of those players who apparently cpl cared about were good enough, they'd have gotten contracts too. cricket outside of the region is not a homie hookup
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:16:56
In reply to SnoopDog
Guyanese men
ultimate green light for american immigration officials trying to catch illegal immigrants, especially when they come in families
StumpCam
2024-10-04 14:18:28
In reply to SnoopDog
If I recall correctly, before CPL the regional T20 was sponsored/owned by Digicel and nuff people were unhappy with that arrangement. Be careful what you wish for! Can’t please these people!
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:20:00
In reply to StumpCam
What you all missing from the big picture, is that all this done to accomodate players who felt they weren’t earning enough and subsequently abandoned an international tour!razz
And to repay said host who was left holding the proverbial bag!
I seem to have forgotten who the Windies captain was on that tour.
Does anyone know?
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:20:58
In reply to StumpCam
the regional Caribbean t20 was owned by West Indies cricket....the wicb. Digicel were the sponsors
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:21:34
In reply to Jumpstart
ultimate green light
And it's thanks to you and all the other miserable surly angry Tittie men who boycotted their women....and the CPL.
StumpCam
2024-10-04 14:24:10
In reply to SnoopDog
I seem to have forgotten who the Windies captain was on that tour.
Does anyone know?
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:29:00
In reply to StumpCam
It's a complete and utter mystery!
The only clues we have are that he's semi-literate and makes awful music.
StumpCam
2024-10-04 14:29:34
In reply to Jumpstart
Ey breds, trinidadian players were earning enough...
So, Windies cricket don’t matter! Only Trinidad matters!
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:29:39
In reply to StumpCam
What you all missing from the big picture, is that all this done to accomodate players who felt they weren’t earning enough and subsequently abandoned an international tour!
pollard, gayle and bravo were all millionaires many times over by 2014....pollard's initial ipl contract was an undisclosed amount upward of 750.000 dollars. they didn't need cwi's pottage.
But as the likes of Chris Gayle, Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Lendl Simmons earn anywhere between Aus $65,000 (US $47,300 approx) and $120,000 (US $87,300 approx) for six weeks' work in the Big Bash League, the West Indies Test players are paid relatively meagre sums
this is what the protagonists in the India debacle were earning WITHOUT CWI.
Match fees were slashed from US $17,500 to $5,000 in 2014 as a result of an agreement between WIPA and the WICB that led to a mass walkout from that year's tour of India
there were other players on that tour who didn't earn that type of money, bravo and co were looking out for the interests of the entire team.
cold hard facts for dunces
problem is most west indian territories or tourist islands, have very little understanding of industrial relations and therefore think this sort of thing is normal.
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:36:11
In reply to StumpCam
So, Windies cricket don’t matter! Only Trinidad matters!
thatis the most insipid thing I've seen all day other than the pothound's asinine meanderings. if only trinidad mattered, why the hell would darren ganga say this at the moment of his biggest triumph and the west indies lowest moment with the persecution of gayle and sarwan
We're not just representing T&T, but the entire West Indian public and cricketing fraternity know that we're here representing them as well," he told Cricinfo. "This is virtually a West Indian team representing the entire region. As much as we want to do well for T&T, we have a bigger role in terms of representing the entire West Indies."
It is a mantra he has repeated at the presentation ceremony following every stunning triumph.
"This is for the people of Trinidad and Tobago and, by extension, the West Indies," he said after the gripping last-ball victory over the Deccan Chargers, the IPL champions, no less, with formidable names like Adam Gilchrist, VVS Laxman, Andrew Symonds, Scott Styris, RP Singh and Fidel Edwards in their ranks.
And, in case anyone missed his purpose, he added: "...especially with the crap in West Indies cricket
cold hard facts
We are bigger and better than that petty island foolishness
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 14:38:30
In reply to StumpCam
So, Windies cricket don’t matter! Only Trinidad matters!
#ShahRukhKhan'sFranchiseMatters
StumpCam
2024-10-04 14:45:42
In reply to Jumpstart
Do us all a favor and save us from the endless research and answer a simple question! Are Windies players in a whole benefited more from CPL than previously??? Yes or no will do! Thanks!
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 14:52:24
In reply to StumpCam
hoss pick a struggle nah. first yuh said trinidad only care about trinidadians, grossly incorrect and proven so by me. then yuh said cpl benefitting wi players......financially a few players who would not have gotten anything got some money, that was never up for debate, but then you also said that is what bravo and co protested about, and then i showed you that the wi salaries for that tour were cut from us 17,500 to 5000 us, as per the article on cricinfo. bravo and co's protest wasn't about cpl and even if cpl was giving players a million dollars each, you cannot cut a player's earnings for a tour by 12500 US
StumpCam
2024-10-04 15:00:02
In reply to Jumpstart
hoss
pick a struggle nah. first yuh said trinidad only care about trinidadians, grossly incorrect and proven so by me. then yuh said cpl benefitting wi players..
So, when you can’t answer simple questions, you are attributing statements to me that I did not make??
Jumpstart
2024-10-04 15:01:40
In reply to StumpCam
What you all missing from the big picture, is that all this done to accomodate players who felt they weren’t earning enough and subsequently abandoned an international tour!
you just wrote this moron
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 15:35:00
In reply to StumpCam
Ah tell ya Bro. These Titties are so passionate about Shah Rukh's franchise they're losing their collective shit in one fell swoop.
anthonyp
2024-10-04 15:42:15
In reply to SnoopDog
Ow... yall give Jumpy a break.
De man still in the grieving stage
SnoopDog
2024-10-04 15:46:58
In reply to anthonyp
In Jumpy and Mulla bin Emir's case it's about 30 stages of grief instead of the usual 5.
BeatDball
2024-10-04 18:32:15
VPJ has spoken! For Treeknees, I'm not sure, story done?!
