SIR David Simmons and Sir Wes Hall asserted yesterday that they first learnt through the press of their appointment to a task force to “deal with” the US$47.2 million claims of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the team’s premature withdrawal from last month’s tour of India.
The new task force is unconnected to that proposed at the WICB directors’ emergency meeting in Barbados October 21 that was to review the overall circumstances of debacle in India.
It is part of the so-called Hyatt Accord, an agreement forged at Friday’s meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Port-of-Spain to end the three-way dispute between the WICB, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and the players in India under ODI captain Dwayne Bravo.
The meeting was attended by prime ministers Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Keith Mitchell of Grenada along with WICB president Dave Cameron,
