Tony Cozier

—- Dave Cameron’s fondness and frequent use of social media not only displays his arrogance and his belief that he is infallible but it is also behaviour that is unbecoming of a WICB president By Tony Cozier   WEST Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron’s fondness for the use of social media has repeatedly revealed his arrogant belief in his own invincibility.

RICHARD AUSTIN’S death in his native Kingston on Saturday, aged 60, cut short a life that began with optimism for a bright cricketing future and ended with years of debilitating cocaine addiction, ironically brought on by the very game at which he excelled.

By Tony cozier Stuart Williams, stand-in West Indies head coach over the five months since Ottis Gibson was dismissed last August, hopes that the return of Darren Bravo and Kemar Roach brings “a different feel to the whole team, maybe the spark that we need in the World Cup”.

IT was the last, parting body blow for a team that had absorbed more than its fair share in the preceding six weeks.

THE West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and CARICOM have announced separate initiatives in an effort to resolve claims from the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) against the WICB for US$41.97 million over the West Indies team’s sudden exit from its tour of India last October.

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors rejected a proposal at their January 10 meeting in Antigua for a president or vice-president, defeated in an election, to extend his stay in office until the end of the relevant financial year, according to usually dependable sources.

By Tony Cozier Throughout two decades of disputes and decline, the West Indies captaincy has been an unbearable burden, even for its most prominent holders.

Stating that it could no longer hold off on its claims for US$41.97 millions in losses from the premature abandonment of the contracted tour of India last October, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has given the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) until next Tuesday to respond to its demands for compensation.

CHRIS GAYLE’S open denunciation of the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the World Cup squad last week was the latest in an extensive list of such forthright comments he has directed against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), its chief executive, its selectors and its head coach.

Dave Cameron clearly takes the knowledgeable, if long suffering, public of the West Indies to be gullible simpletons.

Clive Lloyd leaves no doubt over where he stands on Twenty20 cricket.

BEGGING Her Majesty’s pardon for applying her poignant, well known phrase to the game of cricket; it is just that it seems particularly appropriate in this instance.

AS West Indies extended Christmas charity to their South African hosts on the opening day of the second Test at Port Elizabeth’s St.

More questions than answers surround the sacking of Dwayne Bravo as captain and the non-selection of Keiron Pollard and Darren Sammy from the West Indies’ One Day International (ODI) team for next month’s five ODIs in South Africa.

So now we know. According to Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron, President and Supreme Leader of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), it’s not his governing body that’s responsible for the woes that continue to afflict West Indies cricket but rather those of us who write and commentate on the game.

There can’t be a cricketer of any generation and of any standard anywhere on the planet or any devotee of the game who hasn’t been moved by the death of Phillip Hughes.

EVEN with all the optimism in the world, it is impossible to shake the notion that the West Indies team that leaves a week today (November 30) for its tour of South Africa is heading for a certain trouncing.

ACCORDING to manager Wes Hall’s report, Brian Lara complained that “cricket has ruined my life” after walking out on the West Indies team after the fourth Test during its 1995 tour of England.

By Tony Cozier   IT took two weeks for 14 West Indies cricketers to carry out their threat to pack their kits bags and prematurely abandon their tour of India, the ruinous repercussions of which still reverberate around the Caribbean.

SIR David Simmons and Sir Wes Hall asserted yesterday that they first learnt through the press of their appointment to a task force to “deal with” the US$47.2 million claims of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the team’s premature withdrawal from last month’s tour of India.