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    One man fighting the box of frogs

    By Will last year, at the end of July Leave a comment on this post

    What’s the difference between the West Indies Cricket Board and a box of frogs? The box of frogs make more sense.

    Ho ho ho. But on a serious note, for this is a seriously crazy cricket board, there is one man desperately fighting WICB’s inadequacies on behalf of the players: Dinanath Ramnarine, president of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA). And it is a fierce, ugly battle indeed.

    Making sense of all this is somewhat of a challenge - I’ve been trying for about a year, and am only halfway there - but fortunately Vaneisa Baksh has done her best in an excellent piece Cricinfo commissioned. Do give it a read.

    Ramnarine does not trust the WICB, and if one were to check the record of their dealings for the past five years or so of his tenure, it is clear why. He has had little reason to, and given his prior relationship with the board and its functionaries (remember, he retired at 28, having played in 12 Tests and taken 45 wickets with some pretty good legspin) there is nothing really to suggest there will be any improvement without fundamental changes.

    But despite talk by the WICB’s outgoing president, Ken Gordon, that the recently appointed Governance Committee was the most important ever established, the board is not in a hurry to institute the changes the committee has recommended - not when one of those was that the board should give way to a more representative body.

    The latest slew of exchanges between the board and WIPA revealed the nature of the tension between them. Ramnarine has charged the board with reneging on terms of their MOU, particularly with regard to including WIPA in negotiations affecting players. Gordon has accused Ramnarine of basically cussing off everyone and calling them liars.

    Interesting, fragile times.

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    2 Responses to “One man fighting the box of frogs”

  • Wraye wrote:
    July 26th, 2007 at 1.20 pm

    Meaning no disrespect to Vaneisa at all, but it reads as if she has taken a Harry Potter novel and simply substituted characters from Hogwarts with those from the WICB.
    Does Ramnarine have a scar on his forehead? - if not, he’s dooooooomed.

    Apparently Daniel Radcliffe is a cricket fan. He must have learned something after all those years on HP sets. Get him in as an advisor.

  • kamrul hasan wrote:
    July 30th, 2007 at 2.49 pm

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