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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Guyana finally to play in Airtel champions league

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The Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) and the Guyanese play­ers pre­vent­ed a ma­jor em­bar­rass­ment by reach­ing an agree­ment to par­tic­i­pate in the up­com­ing Air­tel Cham­pi­ons League in South Africa. The GCB and the play­ers were in­volved in a two-week long bat­tle over terms and con­di­tions out­lined in their agree­ment to par­tic­i­pate in the Cham­pi­ons League. There was an is­sue as far as shar­ing of the prize mon­ey and par­tic­i­pa­tion fee were con­cerned. The play­ers got their rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) to rep­re­sent them but the GCB failed to ne­go­ti­ate with them. The West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) al­so got in­to the row, when they de­mand­ed 33 per cent of the par­tic­i­pa­tion fee of US$500,000, say­ing that they had in­vest­ed heav­i­ly in stag­ing the re­gion­al T20 crick­et se­ries.

Pres­i­dent of the GCB, Chetram Singh said yes­ter­day that a planned meet­ing of the board's ex­ec­u­tive card­ed for Fri­day night did not come off, as some mem­bers were un­able to at­tend. "We had a meet­ing planned for Fri­day night to make a fi­nal de­ci­sion as to what we are go­ing to do but we did not have a enough mem­bers at­tend­ing be­cause of oth­er press­ing is­sues. "How­ev­er, in the in­ter­im we met with the play­ers and an agree­ment over the share of the prize mon­ey and oth­er is­sues have been met and now it is on the way to South Africa." Pressed fur­ther as to what they fi­nal agreed terms were Singh said: "I would not like to make pub­lic the agree­ment we set­tled on for more than one rea­sons but the play­ers have all signed an agree­ment and we are look­ing for­ward now."

The is­sue with the WIPA and the West In­dies Play­ers Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny (WIP­MA­COL) Singh said: "There is no fur­ther is­sue with the play­ers as­so­ci­a­tion, with the play­ers all com­ing on board now, that is­sue will now die a nat­ur­al death. "On Mon­day our lawyers will put the mat­ters with WIPA and WIP­MA­COL to rest and that is that, as far as we are con­cerned." Singh added that all en­er­gies now must be con­cen­trat­ed on get­ting the team pre­pared for the world tour­na­ment. "This is a big tour­na­ment and the team has to pre­pare well to be com­pet­i­tive. We are hap­py now, they can get down to busi­ness and the GCB in­tends to pro­vide all that is nec­es­sary for the team to have a good prepa­ra­tion lead­ing up to the tour­na­ment." The Cham­pi­ons League will be played from Sep­tem­ber 10�26 in South Africa.


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