Bassarath uses awards function to attack CWI critic's

Bassarath uses awards function to attack CWI critics

Cricket West Indies (CWI) Vice President Azim Bassarath slammed critics of Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Dr Kishore Shallow in the aftermath of West Indies being bowled out for 27 runs against Australia in the third and final Test at Sabina Park last week Monday.Bassarath used the opportunity of delivering the feature address at the West Indies Rising Stars Women’s Under 19 tournament at Trinidad Hilton, St Ann's.
Bassarath criticised severely those whom he described as armchair critics without calling their names and said they “came out of their holes” to criticise the CWI President since the debacle in Sabina Park in Jamaica.

In an address that was more brutal than a Chris Gayle innings, Bassarath, describing one of the critics as a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, said the morning after the match, he wrote “a long-winded epistle (that) appeared on social media bearing his name but clearly not written by him, dripping with false concerns and manufactured outrage.”He continued, “This, from the man who lit the very fire he now pretends to extinguish. A hypocrite of the highest order.”

The second critic that the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) President took aim at was a former TTCB executive and CWI director; again, no name was called.Bassarath referred to him as a “former CWI Director and TTCB member” and added, “Who had the audacity to call our President a ‘colossal failure’ in the press?”A fiery Bassarath added, “Let me say this plainly: this is the pot calling the kettle black. This man sat as a director at CWI for years and made no meaningful contribution, not regionally, not even locally.”Then he went after the third in his line of vocal fire while referring to the third critic as “carrying a top cricket office tabanca for over fifteen years”, Bassarath said.He continued, “He believed he was entitled to be president of the TTCB. When his close relative failed to become president of the then WICB, he thought the TTCB throne would be his.”

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He continued, “We have to defend, from where I sit, we have to defend the attacks that are coming to Dr Kishore Shallow’s way and Cricket West Indies.”

However, former West Indies Cricket Board director and former TTCB executive member Baldath Mahabir questioned if other individuals, other than the three Basarath referred to, were also wrong when they spoke critically of the current West Indies head coach Daren Sammy.

“So Hooper (Carl), Andy Roberts and the Guardian editorial, plus the thousands on social media, are also wrong?” he asked.
He continued, via a WhatsApp message to Guardian Media Sports on Sunday, “He speaks knowing full well that he is safe in his political cocoon. Despite the once revered and beloved sport declining daily. He and his friends will continue to preside over said decline. History will prove who was correct.”

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Bassarat is a failure at T&TCB...secretly aiming for President of CWI.

How had T&TCB cricket improved other than allegations of missing funds?

He says let people challenge him but forgets conveniently that they system is setup where outgoing directors of TTCB gets to vote for incoming members making it almost impossible to select a new board.

Trinidad cricket is going down fast and he has been in power since 2009 so in the words of Gypsy we know who to blame

Guy is an antiquated, dictatorial leech. Remember instead of getting Ramdin in front of a disciplinary committee post abandoned tour he tried to exact "extra-judicial justice." He was also involved in "The Gayle Cyan Come Back Jus' Suh" campaign where they wanted Gayle to grovel after his outburst And, all the while collecting perks for running ann organization into the ground. But oh, dare not criticize.

Is this the same guy who added 5+5 and got 3. And then the Police had to be called in to deal with financial fraud. We love to curse the players without calling out the real problem with CWI cricket. The rot starts at the head. If the structure is not changed, nothing will change. Let me repeat. CWI owns West Indies cricket. CWI is a legally registered private club of old boys, none of whom have achieved what their big heads think they should have achieved in life. So with CWI and with the collusion of our elected governments who only talk, they get a chance to become Lords, with no accountability.
The CWI owns no grounds, except for the former Stanford Ground in Antigua which they own jointly with the Antiguan government. They get sponsorship because we the Caribbean public, buy and support the services and products of those sponsors.
This CWI with no vision and with total indifference has taken us lower than ever imaginable. Our governments whom we have voted in need to play hardball with them. But this will not happen. Governments spent millions on big stadiums and need to keep them in use. And we the Caribbean public only talk. We would never take a real stand.
So here we are, stuck with the cabal known as CWI.
Let me finally say that just like the CWI, the players are not accountable to us, the public and the fans. They are accountable only to their employers, the CWI. They don't play for us. They play for a salary like every other employee in the world.