Major changes have been made to the Guyana Cricket Administration Bill 2012 including the removal of contentious provisions objected to by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) dealing with the dissolution of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
The bill was returned to the National Assembly on Wednesday but the second reading was deferred until the parliamentary recess ends in October. The bill seeks to establish the GCB and county boards as corporate bodies and was tabled by government in December 2012 in a bid to end the impasse over the national game here. It provides constitutions for the GCB, the Demerara Cricket Board, the Berbice Cricket Board and the Essequibo Cricket Board.
The bill was tabled following an acrimonious row between government and the WICB over control of cricket in Guyana which had seen international matches being pulled from Guyana.
