West Indies Cricket back in turmoil due to Bravo’s contract issue

West Indies’ exciting new all rounder Dwayne Bravo hasn’t been given his retainer contract by the Cricket Board. The reason was that the 22-year-old Trinidadian was having a personal endorsement with Cable & Wireless, a direct competitor to the current official Sponsor of the West Indies Cricket Team, Digicel. But according to the ICC and FICA (International Players’ Association) agreement, no player should be prohibited from being given the contract just because he is having a pre-existing deal with the competitor of the Official Team Sponsor. The West Indies Board has given these retained contracts to only eight of its players against the MOU with the Players’ Association that a minimum of 10 players should be given the contracts. The West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players’ Association are certainly not getting along well with each other and this has reopened some of the wounds of the recent past.