Distinguished former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has resigned from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), citing the controversy posed in relation to his role as Head of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) to run local cricket.
In his resignation letter dated February 14, 2012 to WICB President Julian Hunte, Lloyd alluded to the 46+ years he had served as a player and administrator in regional cricket and said that he had hoped that given his standing in the game, Hunte would have realized that his role in the IMC was a sign that all was not well in Guyana’s cricket and that Hunte would have supported and cooperated with him.
“However instead I have found myself caught between my loyalty to my country and loyalty to the WICB.
“After much deliberation, with a sad heart I had no other option but to tender my resignation as Director of the Board. I hope that my resignation would act as a catalyst for the members of the Board to ask soul searching questions and take a hard look at what could be done differently to get our cricket back to the glory days.”
Efforts by this publication to contact Lloyd for a comment on his resignation were futile.
