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Conduct unbecoming!

—- Dave Cameron’s fondness and frequent use of social media not only displays his arrogance and his belief that he is infallible but it is also behaviour that is unbecoming of a WICB president By Tony Cozier   WEST Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron’s fondness for the use of social media has repeatedly revealed his arrogant belief in his own invincibility.

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Richard Austin rememberedRichard Austin remembered

RICHARD AUSTIN’S death in his native Kingston on Saturday, aged 60, cut short a life that began with optimism for a bright cricketing future and ended with years of debilitating cocaine addiction, ironically brought on by the very game at which he excelled.

Too many ‘ifs’…

By Tony cozier Stuart Williams, stand-in West Indies head coach over the five months since Ottis Gibson was dismissed last August, hopes that the return of Darren Bravo and Kemar Roach brings “a different feel to the whole team, maybe the spark that we need in the World Cup”.

Irwin Laroque

WICB, CARICOM announce separate initiatives to resolve BCCI claim

THE West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and CARICOM have announced separate initiatives in an effort to resolve claims from the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) against the WICB for US$41.97 million over the West Indies team’s sudden exit from its tour of India last October.

By Tony Cozier
 

WICB succession plan rejected

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors rejected a proposal at their January 10 meeting in Antigua for a president or vice-president, defeated in an election, to extend his stay in office until the end of the relevant financial year, according to usually dependable sources.

By Tony Cozier
 

BCCI gives WICB ultimatum in US$41.97m compensation claim

Stating that it could no longer hold off on its claims for US$41.97 millions in losses from the premature abandonment of the contracted tour of India last October, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has given the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) until next Tuesday to respond to its demands for compensation.

Gayle’s comments just not cricket

CHRIS GAYLE’S open denunciation of the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the World Cup squad last week was the latest in an extensive list of such forthright comments he has directed against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), its chief executive, its selectors and its head coach.

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Gullible simpletons

Dave Cameron clearly takes the knowledgeable, if long suffering, public of the West Indies to be gullible simpletons.

WICB’s ‘annus horribilis’

BEGGING Her Majesty’s pardon for applying her poignant, well known phrase to the game of cricket; it is just that it seems particularly appropriate in this instance.

Shooting the Messenger

So now we know. According to Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron, President and Supreme Leader of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), it’s not his governing body that’s responsible for the woes that continue to afflict West Indies cricket but rather those of us who write and commentate on the game.

Prospects look bleak for S/Africa tour

EVEN with all the optimism in the world, it is impossible to shake the notion that the West Indies team that leaves a week today (November 30) for its tour of South Africa is heading for a certain trouncing.

By Tony Cozier

Worrying developments

ACCORDING to manager Wes Hall’s report, Brian Lara complained that “cricket has ruined my life” after walking out on the West Indies team after the fourth Test during its 1995 tour of England.

Sir David Simmons

Hyatt Accord…Task Force set up to deal with BCCI million-dollar claim

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.

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