With time run­ning out on the West In­dies se­lec­tors to name a cap­tain for the Test tour of South Africa, the main stake­hold­ers were locked in a tele­con­fer­ence last night.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that chair­man of se­lec­tors Sir Clive Lloyd flew in­to An­tigua last evening, to join West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) CEO, Michael Muir­head and crick­et op­er­a­tions chief Richard Py­bus at the board's head­quar­ters. They would in turn link up with pres­i­dent of the WICB, Dave Cameron who is in Dubai.

The fu­ture of De­nesh Ramdin as Test cap­tain, Dwayne Bra­vo as lim­it­ed overs cap­tain and Dar­ren Sam­my as T20 cap­tain has come un­der scruti­ny af­ter the trio abort­ed the tour of In­dia re­cent­ly.

T&T Guardian un­der­stands that the WICB is di­vid­ed when it comes to the cap­tain­cy is­sue. Some of the di­rec­tors want the cap­tains to go, to send a mes­sage but pres­i­dent Cameron met with PM Ralph Gon­za­lves, PM Kei­th Mitchell, play­ers Bra­vo and Ramdin at Hy­att and it was re­port­ed that the play­ers would not be vic­timised for their ac­tions in In­dia.

If the WICB re­move the cap­tains, this would be against the Hy­att Ac­cord and could cause new prob­lems in West In­dies crick­et.

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has re­moved Ramdin as cap­tain of the Red Force but they ex­plained that this was be­cause of Ramdin's in­volve­ment with the West In­dies team.

The play­er has cried vic­tim­i­sa­tion, but the TTCB is stand­ing by its de­ci­sion to ap­point Rayad Em­rit. They claim that this was the rec­om­men­da­tion of the se­lec­tors be­fore the In­dia se­ries. They ex­plained that he was sup­posed to be in In­dia and would have missed the open­ing of the se­ries. He was then ex­pect­ed to fly out to South Africa for a Test, ODI and T20 se­ries and would have re­turned at the end of Jan­u­ary and fly out ear­ly Feb­ru­ary for the World Cup in Aus­tralia and the tour­na­ment would have been over by then. (VM)