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Sir Hilary Beckles believes former Jamaica PM PJ Patterson can help end Gayle-WICB impasse
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 9 – (www.bcacricket.org) – Principal of the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who is also a director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), reckons that former Jamaica Prime Minister, The Honourable PJ Patterson, could help end a long-standing impasse between former captain and ace opening batsman Chris Gayle and the WICB.
Jamaican Gayle, 32, a veteran of 91 Test, 228 One-Day International and 20 Twenty20 matches, has not played for West Indies in almost a year following his criticism of the WICB and the team’s management in a widely-publicised interview on a Jamaica radio station last April.
Responding to a question on the issue from this reporter during a Press conference at the 3Ws Oval here on Wednesday to officially announce the appointment of legendary West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose as the fast bowling consultant with Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC), Sir Hilary said he believed Patterson “has the seniority, the respect in the cricket fraternity and the capacity to bring home Chris Gayle to the West Indies”.
“Well, I can speak to you as I am speaking here at the moment within the university context. I can speak to you as an educator. And I will make my comments as an educator,” Sir Hilary said.
“The West Indian people and the West Indies Board and everyone else invested in Mr. Chris Gayle as a young cricketer. We all watched him develop as a youth cricketer, we all watched him develop as a young star.
“That’s an investment all Caribbean people make. That’s an investment that all of us would make to see a young boy become a great player, and if things have gone wrong that that great player is not available to us, we need a form of intervention to fix it.
http://www.bcacricket.org/2010/articles.php?link=2893
Bridgetown, Barbados, February 9 – (www.bcacricket.org) – Principal of the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who is also a director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), reckons that former Jamaica Prime Minister, The Honourable PJ Patterson, could help end a long-standing impasse between former captain and ace opening batsman Chris Gayle and the WICB.
Jamaican Gayle, 32, a veteran of 91 Test, 228 One-Day International and 20 Twenty20 matches, has not played for West Indies in almost a year following his criticism of the WICB and the team’s management in a widely-publicised interview on a Jamaica radio station last April.
Responding to a question on the issue from this reporter during a Press conference at the 3Ws Oval here on Wednesday to officially announce the appointment of legendary West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose as the fast bowling consultant with Combined Campuses & Colleges (CCC), Sir Hilary said he believed Patterson “has the seniority, the respect in the cricket fraternity and the capacity to bring home Chris Gayle to the West Indies”.
“Well, I can speak to you as I am speaking here at the moment within the university context. I can speak to you as an educator. And I will make my comments as an educator,” Sir Hilary said.
“The West Indian people and the West Indies Board and everyone else invested in Mr. Chris Gayle as a young cricketer. We all watched him develop as a youth cricketer, we all watched him develop as a young star.
“That’s an investment all Caribbean people make. That’s an investment that all of us would make to see a young boy become a great player, and if things have gone wrong that that great player is not available to us, we need a form of intervention to fix it.
http://www.bcacricket.org/2010/articles.php?link=2893
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