WICB officials need to show more compassion – Bravo

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Dwayne Bravo believes officials of the West Indies Cricket Board need to show more understanding and compassion towards the players.

The West Indies all-rounder has also given players’ chief Dinanath Ramnarine a big vote of confidence and feels the WICB needs to take greater care of the players in a wide-ranging interview appearing on the website, caribbeancricket.com.

“It is not a nice situation where the WICB and the West Indies Players’ Association always in a bit of a conflict where contracts are concerned and the players getting involved,” he said.

“We are happy to have Dinanath Ramnarine as our representative. He is someone who relates all the messages back to us. He does not do anything without informing us.”

Bravo added: “We actually give him the orders what we think he should do, so he actually works for us and he has been doing a great job for us.

“We respect his decision and his opinion and we are very happy to have him on our side because I think if we didn’t have Dinanath Ramnarine, I don’t think the players would have been in the position they are in today.”

Bravo highlighted one of the burning issues about the players choosing between an unscheduled tour of England and fulfilling contracts with the Indian Premier League as an example of how the WICB fails to look out for the interest of the players.

“All the West Indies players looked at our schedule, and there was a Bangladesh tour supposed to be on during the IPL time, then the Bangladesh tour got called off,” he said.

“We asked our representative what we have during the IPL time. He said we have nothing on so we all signed our contracts with our IPL team knowing that we have six weeks with the franchise, with the IPL team.

“Then the England tour came up, where the WICB went on and signed that tour without letting WIPA know anything about the tour.

He stressed: “We find ourselves in a position now where we already signed our contracts without a retainer contract, so none of us was on a retainer contract at that time.

“We signed our contract to go and represent our IPL team, now we are in a position where we have to choose whether to go and play IPL for the first six weeks or go to England.

“It is a tricky situation. As you rightly say, if we choose to go and play IPL, they will say why the players, they want their money.”

Bravo indicated however, that the players will be going to play in England, and was unaware where the rumour started that they would not.

“This is something we need to look at in the near future and see how the WICB do things,” he said.

“They have to understand that the Sri Lanka players pull out (of the England tour) because their board is aware that the key players have IPL contracts and therefore they allow the players to get income another way, but I don’t see our board … I don’t think they really understand.”

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