St. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday denied media reports that Richie Richardson was fired as manager of the West Indies Cricket team.
A report appearing in the Trinidad Guardian newspaper said Richardson, a former Windies captain, was axed as manager and replaced by his former teammate and former manager Joel Garner.
However a WICB statement released following a meeting of the Board of Directors by teleconference yesterday afternoon said the report was inaccurate.
“The WICB wishes to make it explicitly clear that contrary to media reports, Sir Richie Richardson has not been removed as Team Manager of the West Indies Team”, the release said.
Richardson was the manager of the team that aborted the tour to India recently, a decision which angered the Board of Control for Cricket in Indian (BCCI) forcing it to cancel tours to the Caribbean and to demand compensation of 42 million US dollars.
The WICB says that a debriefing of the Windies team Management following the shortened tour of India has been carded for Tuesday in Antigua.
Meantime the WICB says dates will be provided next week for releasing test and one-day squads for the upcoming tour of South Africa.
