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Get Credit! So You Can Talk Caribbean Cricket

Ramnaresh Sarwan The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) drama continues to befuddle. Most recently its St. Lucian head, Dr. Julian Hunte and its St. Lucian CEO, Ernest Hilaire, ‘fired’ a number of players and hired a new Captain: A St. Lucian, Darren Sammy. The ‘fired’ players included its current captain and vice captain, Chris Gayle, and Dwayne Bravo, and former captain and vice captain, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dinesh Ramdin. These players all held central contracts with the WICB up until these new developments. There were other players fired but these four happened to be the more experienced players on the team. The WICB offered a number of reasons for these moves. The most befuddling was Sarwan’s firing. The WICB gave his lack of fitness as the reason. I used the word ‘fired’ to describe these actions because its important we understand this is an employer/employee relationship between the WICB and the players. Gayle and Bravo declined their offers ostensibly to p