THE West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has questioned the timing of the World Twenty20 squad’s contract demands, and says if players refuse to sign by Sunday’s deadline, replacements will have to be found.
WICB chief executive Michael Muirhead said the new contract pay structure had been discussed at mediation last May, agreed to by players’ union, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), and communicated to all players.
Since then, Muirhead said, the contracts had been used in three bilateral tours, so the WICB was now surprised by the latest development since it believed all outstanding contractual issues had been resolved.
“It cannot be that [11 days before] they leave on the 20th [for the World Cup] that this group of players wants to come and renegotiate something or negotiate something that is different from what we had circulated,” Muirhead told CMC Sports.
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