Beamer
International Vice-Captain
Or rather leaked to caribbeancricket.com. WICB in rewarding all the scabs shocker. These are the categories of contract:
A-rated players -- US$120,000 per year (apparently only 4 qualify for this. Gayle, Shiv, Sarwan and Bravo).
B-rated players -- US$80,000 per year
C-rated players -- US$60,000 per year
D-rated players -- US$24,000 per year (these are developmental players)
Contracted players by nation:
BARBADOS
Floyd Reifer - Seriously?
Fidel Edwards
Sulieman Benn
Kemar Roach
Ryan Austin
Tino Best - ??????
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kevin McLean
Omar Phillips
Dale Richards
Dwayne Smith - good to see him back
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Dwayne Bravo
Darren Bravo
Denesh Ramdin
Ravi Rampaul
Adrian Barath
Lendl Simmons
GUYANA
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Narsingh Deonarine
Travis Dowlin
JAMAICA
Chris Gayle
Jerome Taylor
Dave Bernard
Brendan Nash
Andre Creary
Nikita Miller
Chadwick Walton
WINDWARD ISLANDS
Darren Sammy
Andre Fletcher
Nelon Pascal
Devon Smith - Surely it's time to give up on him?
LEEWARD ISLANDS
Lionel Baker - WHY????
Kieran Powell
Gavin Tonge
11 players from Barbados who came 2nd from bottom last year and only 13 from the top two teams over the last 5 years combined.
There are some pretty glaring omissions in that list. Runako Morton, Andrew Richardson, Amit Jaggernauth, Kieron Pollard, Devon Thomas, Gavin Wallace etc. But the most disturbing thing of all is that 37 year old Floyd Reifer and 28 year old failure Tino Best have been given 'development' contracts in a shameful case of rewarding the scabs for their loyalty. The selectors cannot possibly have awarded most of the scabs contracts on merit so it shows that the they are not independent of Julien Hunte and his old cronies at the WICB. By giving Best and Reifer contracts they have basically denied a couple of youngsters development contracts. It is shameful in the extreme and I hope that anyone who automatically blames the players for striking (idiotic and lazy journalists like Peter Roebuck, Greg Baum and Dean Jones) can see the WICB for what they really are.
N.B: Don't be surprised if there is more conflict between the WICB and WIPA when it comes to signing these contracts as only 4 players (Shiv, Gayle, Sarwan and Bravo) have been offered A-rated contracts. I suspect Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor will feel extremely hard done by.
A-rated players -- US$120,000 per year (apparently only 4 qualify for this. Gayle, Shiv, Sarwan and Bravo).
B-rated players -- US$80,000 per year
C-rated players -- US$60,000 per year
D-rated players -- US$24,000 per year (these are developmental players)
Contracted players by nation:
BARBADOS
Floyd Reifer - Seriously?
Fidel Edwards
Sulieman Benn
Kemar Roach
Ryan Austin
Tino Best - ??????
Kraigg Brathwaite
Kevin McLean
Omar Phillips
Dale Richards
Dwayne Smith - good to see him back
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Dwayne Bravo
Darren Bravo
Denesh Ramdin
Ravi Rampaul
Adrian Barath
Lendl Simmons
GUYANA
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Narsingh Deonarine
Travis Dowlin
JAMAICA
Chris Gayle
Jerome Taylor
Dave Bernard
Brendan Nash
Andre Creary
Nikita Miller
Chadwick Walton
WINDWARD ISLANDS
Darren Sammy
Andre Fletcher
Nelon Pascal
Devon Smith - Surely it's time to give up on him?
LEEWARD ISLANDS
Lionel Baker - WHY????
Kieran Powell
Gavin Tonge
11 players from Barbados who came 2nd from bottom last year and only 13 from the top two teams over the last 5 years combined.
There are some pretty glaring omissions in that list. Runako Morton, Andrew Richardson, Amit Jaggernauth, Kieron Pollard, Devon Thomas, Gavin Wallace etc. But the most disturbing thing of all is that 37 year old Floyd Reifer and 28 year old failure Tino Best have been given 'development' contracts in a shameful case of rewarding the scabs for their loyalty. The selectors cannot possibly have awarded most of the scabs contracts on merit so it shows that the they are not independent of Julien Hunte and his old cronies at the WICB. By giving Best and Reifer contracts they have basically denied a couple of youngsters development contracts. It is shameful in the extreme and I hope that anyone who automatically blames the players for striking (idiotic and lazy journalists like Peter Roebuck, Greg Baum and Dean Jones) can see the WICB for what they really are.
N.B: Don't be surprised if there is more conflict between the WICB and WIPA when it comes to signing these contracts as only 4 players (Shiv, Gayle, Sarwan and Bravo) have been offered A-rated contracts. I suspect Fidel Edwards and Jerome Taylor will feel extremely hard done by.
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