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West Indies cricket will improve when cricketers

kazakman 11/22/24, 1:15:31 PM
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Cricketers start Administrating our cricket again.
Sir Garfield Sobers is absolutely correct that our cricket will go nowhere until cricketers start running our cricket again.
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imusic 11/22/24, 1:23:58 PM
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debut: 11/13/02
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In reply to kazakman

Please remind us when WI cricketers were administrating WI cricket

Thanks
Jumpstart 11/22/24, 1:27:29 PM
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debut: 11/30/17
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Jumpstart 11/22/24, 1:29:39 PM
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wes hall was a good administrator. a great administrator in fact. allan rae was also a very good administrator. both lloyd and viv are full of praises of him. i think ken gordon did not play but i think he was a very good administrator who inherited a royal mess left by two typically arrogant bajans(aka the digicel fiasco)
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kazakman 11/22/24, 1:43:24 PM
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If you ever were following West Indies cricket ,you would know the answer. Sorry, this is so sad.
tc1 11/22/24, 4:35:54 PM
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debut: 6/12/04
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In reply to Jumpstart

I suggest that you read up on Teddy Griffith's resume and then compare it with Ken Gordon, better yet ask the yardies or Dr. Chrisse to forward you Teddy, his brothers and dad service to Bim, TnT, JA and CWI.
Jumpstart 11/22/24, 5:23:10 PM
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debut: 11/30/17
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boy you does come on this site begging to get lix eh.
look at yuh boy teddy resume, and it proves bajans nowhere as good at management as they think they are.
DID THE WICB TREAT CABLE & WIRELESS FAIRLY IN THE NEGOTIATIONS?

The Committee had to determine whether the negotiations were conducted in good faith, incorporating the principles of fairness, transparency and full disclosure in accordance with accepted business practice. The WICB/C&W contract which was concluded in 2001 provides that negotiations should commence fifteen months prior to the expiry of the contract.

The evidence discloses that negotiations did not commence fifteen months before the expiry of the contract as stipulated. An explanation that was accepted by both parties is that there was a Home Series being played at the time and that as a result neither party was able to assemble their full negotiating and advisory personnel to attend the meetings. Consequently, the meetings commenced in August 2003 in the Cayman Islands.

What resulted from various meetings, based on correspondence, was that both parties arrived at a commercial agreement in September 2003. This is evidenced by a letter from Teddy Griffith, the then Chairman of the Marketing Committee of the WICB to Mr. Chris Carpenter of C&W dated September 17, 2003.

As a result of the commercial terms agreed, C&W drafted a redlined contract of sponsorship and submitted it to the WICB on October 20, 2003. The redlined contract was a copy of the existing contract ?redlined? to reflect the new terms agreed in the letter of September 17, 2003.

The Committee was not provided with any correspondence or minutes of meetings to indicate whether the Board of Directors approved or disapproved of the said commercial agreement. There then ensued a period of silence by the lack of documented communication for the month of November 2003, save e-mails discussing administrative matters.

Lucky Report

WICB Board members who feel that Brancker should be allowed to continue as head of the CWC 2007 also confirmed that the immediate earlier president, Griffith, was approved for appointment to the CWC Board as a result of a vacancy that arose. They denied that Griffith was to be a "consultant" to West Indies Cricket Board Inc, the private entity that deals with the business aspect of the WICB, and which had entered into the controversial secretive sponsorship contract with Digicel in 2004.


btw the last cable and wireless series in the west indies was the england 2004 visit. the fallout from this coagulation of incompetence or worse was that the star WI players who still had CW sponsorship deals boycotted both the tri series(which was mercifully cancelled) in december 2004 in australia and the first test of the SA series the next year. and this drama started almost immideately after one of our greatest triumphs, the 2004 champions trophy win
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tc1 11/22/24, 6:48:13 PM
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debut: 6/12/04
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In reply to Jumpstart

Firstly, Joseph seems to have control his anger problem, but you still have not taken any advice, the above said nothing about Griffith's managerial experience.
Jumpstart 11/22/24, 6:59:14 PM
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debut: 11/30/17
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In reply to tc1
i don't believe that has anything to do with what took place while he was in the role which was total chaos and disorder
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natty_forever 11/23/24, 2:10:26 PM
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debut: 4/28/03
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In reply to Jumpstart

Which says it all.
Yadi 11/23/24, 4:16:32 PM
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debut: 12/26/03
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In reply to kazakman

Not likely to happen.
Chrissy 11/23/24, 4:34:10 PM
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debut: 11/14/02
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Well done West Indies
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