Director of Sport blames GCB for slight to T20 cricketers

Players do the Champion dance on Wednesday during a welcome reception at the Grantley Adams International Airport for the winning West Indies Women’s team and a few of the champion men’s sides from the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Tournament. © WICB Media/Enrico Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography

While the victorious women T20 cricketers were being feted in various parts of the Caribbean, the two Guyanese members of the team arrived at the Ogle airport on Wednesday without a government official showing up  and the Director of Sport yesterday cast most of the blame for this on the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).

The medal-bearing Tremayne Smartt and Shemaine Campbell were met at the airport by the Chairman of the senior selection panel of the GCB, Rayon Griffith and another official.

Director of Sport, Christopher Jones is the key sport official in the APNU+AFC government and was apparently