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Friday, July 25, 2025

Crisis meeting as WICB, Caricom committee talk in Grenada

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West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) will meet with the Cari­com crick­et com­mit­tee to­day in Grena­da to dis­cuss among oth­er things, gov­er­nance in West In­dies crick­et and the cri­sis with the Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia (BC­CI).

The much an­tic­i­pat­ed meet­ing is be­ing called some­thing of a "fact-find­ing" af­fair by WICB di­rec­tor Bal­dath Ma­habir. "We have two re­gion­al bod­ies meet­ing on Mon­day and at this time we don't know what to ex­pect, what will come out of this meet­ing, so to me it is more of a fact-find­ing ex­er­cise more than any­thing else."

Ma­habir, who is one of two di­rec­tors from this coun­try on the WICB, the oth­er one be­ing pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), Az­im Bas­sarath, left last night for Grena­da, where he will join the oth­er di­rec­tors from across the re­gion at the meet­ing.

He said that as both par­ties sit to dis­cuss a way for­ward, they must do so with mu­tu­al re­spect. "We need to have mu­tu­al re­spect. What is need­ed is di­a­logue. We need to have con­tin­u­ous con­ver­sa­tions and this is the on­ly way that Cari­com can as­sist West In­dies crick­et.

"Cari­com can be an ad­vi­so­ry body to the WICB but they can­not get in­volved in the run­ning of crick­et in the re­gion. They have to re­spect the fact that the WICB runs crick­et and they must not in­ter­fere. The WICB, on the oth­er hand, must not get in­volved in re­gion­al pol­i­tics where they can cause prob­lems for dif­fer­ent gov­ern­ments un­der Cari­com."

There is ex­pect­ed to be some lev­el of dis­com­fort as the meet­ing be­gins be­cause St Vin­cent's Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­za­lves who would rep­re­sent Cari­com at the meet­ing had called for the res­ig­na­tion of pres­i­dent of the WICB, Dave Cameron, af­ter the In­di­an fi­as­co. When Cameron did not fol­low his ad­vice, Gon­za­les called on the re­gion­al crick­et di­rec­tors not to vote for him at the last AGM of the WICB.

Cameron de­feat­ed Bar­ba­di­an Joel Gar­ner 8-4 in that vote and is still at the helm of the WICB.

Ma­habir thinks that this is no longer an is­sue :"That is wa­ter un­der the bridge as far as I am con­cerned."

Ma­habir went up against Em­man­u­al Nan­ton for the post of vice-pres­i­dent and al­so lost by an 8-4 mar­gin. "At the end of the day Dr. Gon­za­lves had his point of view but Cameron is the pres­i­dent of the WICB and they have to do what is best for crick­et and put that at the fore­front of their minds. I don't think that will be an is­sue as the gen­tle­men all have West In­dies crick­et at heart and will be look­ing to get some­thing mean­ing­ful in terms of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two bod­ies."

The WICB is fac­ing a bill of US$41.95M owed to the BC­CI af­ter their play­ers abort­ed their tour of In­dia last year be­cause of a pay­ment struc­ture dis­pute .

?Cameron de­feat­ed Bar­ba­di­an Joel Gar­ner 8-4 in that vote and is still at the helm of the WICB.

Ma­habir thinks that this is no longer an is­sue: "That is wa­ter un­der the bridge as far as I am con­cerned."

Ma­habir went up against Em­man­u­al Nan­ton for the post of vice-pres­i­dent and al­so lost by an 8-4 mar­gin. "At the end of the day Dr Gon­za­lves had his point of view but Cameron is the pres­i­dent of the WICB and they have to do what is best for crick­et and put that at the fore­front of their minds. I don't think that will be an is­sue as the gen­tle­men all have West In­dies crick­et at heart and will be look­ing to get some­thing mean­ing­ful in terms of the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the two bod­ies."

The WICB is fac­ing a bill of US$41.95m owed to the BC­CI af­ter their play­ers abort­ed their tour of In­dia last year be­cause of a pay­ment struc­ture dis­pute.


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