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Friday, July 4, 2025

13 players sign, 2 keep WICB waiting

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The West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) is await­ing the sig­na­tures of two more play­ers from the squad of 15 se­lect­ed and they have un­til this af­ter­noon to in­di­cate whether they will be part of the Caribbean side World T20 team or not.

The WICB had giv­en the play­ers a dead­line of to­day, to in­di­cate their will­ing­ness to play at the World Tour­na­ment af­ter the play­ers in­di­cat­ed they were dis­sat­is­fied with their fi­nan­cial re­mu­ner­a­tion for the tour­na­ment.

Cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my had writ­ten the WICB in­form­ing them that the play­ers want­ed to re-ne­go­ti­ate their match fees and bonus­es for the event, as they are not mem­bers of the West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA).

Sam­my called for a dou­bling of the US$6900 match fee and al­so called on the board to give the play­ers 100 per cent of the prize mon­ey should they go on to win the tour­na­ment in In­dia.

The WICB re­spond­ed by say­ing they were not open to any ne­go­ti­a­tions with any­one but the play­ers body and held their ground, telling the play­ers that if they did not sign by to­day, they would not be on the plane to In­dia.

On Fri­day evening, the board had re­ceived nine signed con­tracts and were still await­ing the oth­ers.Yes­ter­day, the board re­ceived four more and with two out­stand­ing it seems that the full team will be as­sem­bled af­ter all.

...Nurse re­places Nar­ine

Mean­while, Bar­ba­di­an spin­ner Ash­ley Nurse has been in­clud­ed on the team, af­ter mys­tery spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine pulled out.

Nar­ine in a let­ter to the WICB in­di­cat­ed that he was not ready to re­sume in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et, he cit­ed in­suf­fi­cient progress in the re­ha­bil­i­ta­tive work on his bowl­ing ac­tion.He is cur­rent­ly banned from bowl­ing in In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et.

The se­lec­tors de­cid­ed to go for Nurse as the re­place­ment and he would en­ter camp with the team lat­er this week in Bar­ba­dos.He is cur­rent­ly play­ing for the Bar­ba­dos Pride against the Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes at Kens­ing­ton Oval.

The West In­dies team will host a camp in Bar­ba­dos be­fore mov­ing on to Dubai where they play four warm-up match­es and then on to In­dia for the tour­na­ment.They play two warm-up games be­fore go­ing in­to ac­tion in their first match of the tour­na­ment on March 16 against Eng­land in Mum­bai.


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