really... i think its time for jamaica to leave

[Baddaz]

the west indies... these clowns at wicb are really disrepecting jamaica... this response to the prime minister smacks of arrogance...

WICB responds to Jamaica Prime Minister

• The WICB has said it regrets the comments made by Jamaica prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller that Chris Gayle had been treated unjustly by the board and kept out of the West Indies team. The WICB said Simpson-Miller was not privy to all the information when she made her statement at the Jamaica Cricket Association Awards dinner.
• "Had the Honourable Prime Minister been briefed she would have been informed that Mr. Chris Gayle has been written to by the WICB, clearly outlining the full details of what is required of him," the board said. "The WICB is awaiting a response from Mr. Gayle."
• The WICB requested Simpson-Miller to ask Gayle to respond quickly to the board and end the dispute. "The WICB implores the Prime Minister to use her good office to urge Mr. Gayle to respond favourably in an effort to put this issue in the past," the WICB statement said.
• Simpson-Miller had said "justice delayed is justice denied" and demanded that "a resolution be found as quickly as possible" regarding the Gayle issue. The WICB, however, said it would not select Gayle until he retracted the comments he made criticising the board and the coach Ottis Gibson, and responded to their previous letter about NOC.

portia doesn't support breaking away from wicb but she may want to rethink her position after this response...

[Gamma]

downright disrespectful they are treating her the same way they treated gayle and they have dealt with gayle WRONGLY ... surely her office demands more respect than that!!!! next thing dem a guh call har "don" outta *$&%^#%@!!! order!!!

julian hunte supposed to be a diplomat .... what they ought to have done is contacted her directly through a tellephone call or a personal letter!

dem juss fly pass dem nest wid dis one!!!

how does one justify sammy as captain?!

[Baddaz]

downright disrespectful they are treating her the same way they treated gayle and they have dealt with gayle WRONGLY ... surely her office demands more respect than that!!!! next thing dem a guh call har "don" outta *$&%^#%@!!! order!!!

julian hunte supposed to be a diplomat .... what they ought to have done is contacted her directly through a tellephone call or a personal letter!

you have seen it exactly as i saw it... i have zero respect for this arrogant wicb... they are the ones acting like 'dons'...

this board should be forced to resign and a new board established... they have failed to advance what is really a simple dispute... it is not about due process, it is all based on arrogance and egos, at the expense of west indies cricket...

[Baddaz]

tell me if this is not personal... the wicb only trying to frustrate gayle... check this...
WICB asks Gayle to make his playing priorities clear

ESPNcricinfo staff
February 21, 2012

The WICB has asked Chris Gayle to make up his mind about his future with the West Indies team. In an email to the batsman, the WICB chief executive Ernest Hilaire wrote that Gayle could not ask for unconditional no-objection certificates (NOCs) to play domestic Twenty20 tournaments around the world and simultaneously make himself available for West Indies selection.
The email was dated January 30 but made public in the past 24 hours.

Hilaire said the WICB rules conformed to the ICC's operating manual and that a player would be granted an NOC to play a domestic tournament in another country on the condition that he be available for selection if an international series clashed with the tournament.

"So, Chris, it is your choice, whether you receive a conditional or unconditional NOC. But you cannot have an unconditional NOC and be considered for selection to play for the West Indies," Hilaire wrote in the email dated January 30. "Either you wish to make yourself available to play for the West Indies, in which case you must accept that NOCs will be granted to you on the same conditional terms as other international players, or you do not, in which case you can have your unconditional NOC. All that is required from you is a clear statement, one way or the other."
"If a player has no contractual obligation to WICB, and does not wish to make himself available to play in international matches for which he may be selected, then he has the option of ceasing to be a FTS (first team squad) Player, by retiring from international cricket, or otherwise declaring himself ineligible and/or unavailable for selection for the foreseeable future. In that event, WICB would not consider it necessary or appropriate to issue a player with anything but anunconditional NOC."
Gayle has not played for West Indies since the 2011 World Cup because of comments he made against the board and the coach Ottis Gibson during a radio interview. The WICB asked Gayle to retract his comments and the batsman has refused to do so. Gayle has just arrived in South Africa to be part of Dolphins' domestic Twenty20 campaign after playing for Barisal Burners in the Bangladesh Premier League.
In his email, Hilaire told Gayle he was "ineligible for selection pending resolution of certain matters."
"The Board requires you to provide a general public retraction of the comments made in the interview in question and the effect it has had on the team, Coach, Captain and Management and to express a commitment to team and management. If the terms of that retraction can be agreed, WICB will be happy to consider you eligible once again for selection."
Edited by George Binoy
http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindi...ry/554728.html

[Willi]

Woah, dem tek on Portia!

:LoL

Dem know who she is?

MDYADWL

Sitten ded now. The WICBC is toast and even labarite aggo back Portia yasso.

[Gamma]

ineligible for selection pending resolution of certain matters. the wicb has made him "ineligble" therefore how can they say that he must decide if he gets a conditional or unconditional NOC ? They have already decided for him!

[Baddaz]

a dat mi a seh tuh... i think the wicb is confused... i think their utterances are exposing them to a potential lawsuit... just for giggles, chris should file a lawsuit against them so they could spend some money in litigation...

[Baddaz]

willi... yuh know seh i was thinking the same thing... do they realize that portia is not a easy walkover... that is her strength... if she decides to take them on, they will not win... she is strong like that...

[Mosiah]

Yuh knuh, when a talk unnu don't listen! At some point unnu come around to unnu senses! A see people all a defend Hue's inclusion in the Reggae Boyz team. Notice mi not even touch dat.

But to come back to the cricket - what is the reason for the continuation of this infesting, fetid vestige called West Indies Cricket?!

Unnu gwine wait until the world body says the idiotic union is illegal and must disband. Even England play as England and not part of a UK team.

But unnu stay deh wid dis nonsense. Mi nuh sorry fi Portia. A dat fi reach har if she continue to support this almshouse.

[Willi]

LoL

[Willi]

But the Jakan WICBC breddah in the Jackson-Miller panel nuh seh Chris only ineligible for T20 cause him dont play enuff regional games, but is eligible for 1-day and test?

[Nemesis]

Yuh knuh, when a talk unnu don't listen! At some point unnu come around to unnu senses! A see people all a defend Hue's inclusion in the Reggae Boyz team. Notice mi not even touch dat.

But to come back to the cricket - what is the reason for the continuation of this infesting, fetid vestige called West Indies Cricket?!

Unnu gwine wait until the world body says the idiotic union is illegal and must disband. Even England play as England and not part of a UK team.

But unnu stay deh wid dis nonsense. Mi nuh sorry fi Portia. A dat fi reach har if she continue to support this almshouse.

Actually its England and Wales that make up the English team. England and Wales cricket board.

[Gamma]

confabulations, fabrications and mendacity is the order of the day ...

[Mosiah]

Even more nonsensical! Why Scotland not a part of that?

[Willi]

Scotland soon leave di United Kingdom ascordin to a Taxi driver mi talk to last December in Glasgow.