West Indies Cricket Board meet players over India tour fiasco
Monday 27 October 2014 16:53, UK
A 'cordial, positive and fruitful' meeting has taken place between the warring parties threatening West Indies cricket.
The future of the sport in the Caribbean has been in question since the squad left their tour of India earlier this month in a dispute over player contracts.
Five matches went unfulfilled - a one-day international, a Twenty20 international and three Tests - and India have since indicated they plan to take legal action against the West Indies Cricket Board as well as call off the lucrative lifeline of bilateral tours between the teams.
Initial discussions produced no firm agreements or resolutions, but more talks are planned.
The WICB were represented by president Dave Cameron, director Don Wehby and attorney Luke Hamel-Smith, with WIPA's under-fire president/chief executive Wavell Hinds joined by secretary Wayne Lewis and Patrick Foster QC.
The squad who left India - barring Marlon Samuels - as well as Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine and Lendl Simmons had Ralph Thorne QC making their case, with players Andre Russell and Jason Holder also attending.
A short statement read: "The West Indies Cricket Board, the West Indies Players' Association and representatives of the West Indies Squad on the tour of India held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.
"The meeting was cordial, positive and fruitful and discussions will continue in an effort to find a way forward following the premature end of the tour of India."
