THE DECISION by the Barbados Cricket Association’s (BCA) to change the status of the University of the West Indies (UWI) from a tertiary team to a club has been no-balled.
Yesterday, Wildey’s captain Pedro Greaves, who is preparing a document on behalf of Elite and Division 1 clubs to send to the BCA, coaches Corey Yearwood and Thelston Payne of Pickwick and St Catherine, respectively, and YMPC’s manager Peter Clarke all expressed dissatisfaction with the decision.
“I don’t agree with the decision to make UWI a club. UWI would’ve come in as a developmental arm of the BCA and when you look at it now in terms of what they are being offered, they have a very unfair advantage, and in any competition you want the playing field to be level,” Greaves told SUNSPORT.
“You have situation now whereby UWI is now allowed to field students as well as any number of employees and then they get also the two overseas players. They also have the advantage of access to the taxpayers’ money, which no other club has,” he further noted. (EZS)
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