West Indies Cricket Forum

Simmons wins $117k in damages                   

• In another setback to the WICB, opening batsman Lendl Simmons was awarded $117,203 in damages through arbitration in a case the player had filed against the board. Simmons, who is part of West Indies squad for the World Twenty20, had sought WIPA's help last year after he was rendered jobless despite having a valid contract with WICB between October 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010.

• After Simmons missed the ODI series against Zimbabwe (March 2010), World Twenty20 (April 2010), West Indies A against Zimbabwe (May 2010) and Bangladesh (May-June 2010), South Africa series (June-July 2010) and West Indies A tour of England and Ireland, WIPA checked with the WICB if Simmons was facing any disciplinary issues. WICB said that was not the case.

• However, Clyde Butts, the West Indies chairman of selectors, told the Caribbean Media Corporation that Simmons had some "issues" other than those related to performance. WIPA alleged that this had served Simmons badly as it had impacted his livelihood, "his professional reputation and has hampered his ability to procure and exploit other commercial and business ventures and future employment."

• Having heard both sides, Seenath Jairam, the arbitrator, awarded the damages for the same set of the clauses he had ruled on during the Ramnaresh Sarwan judgement.

Earlier this summer Sarwan, who had a successful county season with Leicestershire

even as West Indies were being beaten on their England tour :

had said how he had been "mentally broken down by certain individuals",

while blaming the coaching set-up for his non-selection.....

Ramesh will have a Cardiac After the Deonarine Award soon to come !

Haha!!!   and what about Chris Gayle's 'unresolved matters'?  :wink:
 
Thank you for the links ......

Ravi Rambarran, the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sagicor International

at Sagicor Financial is set to replace Ernest Hilaire  :cool:

In the absence of a White, a Chinese and other non Black West Indians....hooray....


At the expense of being called a racist,Blacks cannot organise a piss up in a brewery.

or a f***up in a whorehouse