GEORGETOWN – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director Conde Riley has blamed the contentious Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), for some of the controversy that has plagued the regional game in recent years.
The Barbadian administrator made the point during the feature address at the Guyana Cricket Board’s awards ceremony.
He also pointed out that the eventual renegotiation of the agreement two years ago allowed the WICB to make transformational changes to the game.
“Successive presidents and boards were stifled by a Collective Bargaining Agreement which was designed at the time when Sir Wesley Hall was president, to give players a voice in their professional management through the West Indies Players Association (WIPA),” the Chronicle newspaper quoted Riley as saying. (CMC)
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