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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Bravo serves WICB

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West In­dies bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo has made a claim against the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) for un­law­ful dis­missal from the team that was in Zim­bab­we tak­ing part in the tri-se­ries.

Bra­vo was sent home by the on- tour man­age­ment com­mit­tee af­ter he al­leged­ly sent out an of­fen­sive Tweet against the pres­i­dent of the WICB, Dave Cameron, has sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to the WICB last week.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that Bra­vo's lawyer has made a claim that the WICB sent him home un­law­ful­ly from Zim­bab­we and as such they have de­cid­ed to take the mat­ter to court. Bra­vo's lawyer's let­ter was re­ceived by the Board last week and it will meet on the way to treat with it.

The left-hand­ed Bra­vo is al­leged to have made the tweet in frus­tra­tion af­ter he was giv­en a grade "C" re­tain­er con­tract by the WICB for the next fi­nan­cial year. Bra­vo who is the team's pre­mier bats­man was not in agree­ment with this and hence he did not ac­cept the re­tain­er.

The WICB ex­plained the rea­son be­hind it say­ing that there was a for­mu­la which gov­erned which grade of re­tain­er the play­ers get and hence Bra­vo on­ly qual­i­fied for a "C" grade. Many for­mer play­ers and of­fi­cials have re­marked that the Board should al­so have tak­en in­to ac­count the play­er's val­ue to the team as a se­nior bats­man and not on­ly a sta­tis­ti­cal for­mu­la.

In the tweet, Bra­vo was al­leged to have re­ferred to the WICB Pres­i­dent as a "a big id­iot."

The play­er was lat­er sum­moned by the tour com­mit­tee which in­clud­ed man­ag­er Joel Gar­ner and coach­es Rod­dy Es­t­wick and Hen­der­son Springer. He was im­me­di­ate­ly sent home from the tour and fur­ther to that asked by crick­et op­er­a­tions man­ag­er Richard Py­bus to apol­o­gise and take down the Tweet.

No apol­o­gy was forth­com­ing and the tweet re­mained. Since then Bra­vo has been meet­ing with his lawyer and his do­mes­tic club, Queen's Park Crick­et Club.


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