WICB suspends rebel player's contracts by CricketArchive Staff Reporter

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Player:

CH Gayle

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DateLine: 18th July 2009

 

The West Indian cricket board has come down hard by suspending the retainership contracts of the rebel players and has asked them to reply within ten days why they breached the board's code of conduct by boycotting the first Test against Bangladesh.

 

Thirteen leading West Indies players, including captain Chris Gayle, have gone on strike and boycotted the first Test against Bangladesh over pending contract issues. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) struggled to get a second string side that lost the match.

 

In its first official communication to the players during the impasse, WICB wrote to all the rebel players Thursday that they have breached the contract by missing the Test and skipping the ticket launch of the 2010 World Twenty20. WICB's move to seek explanation from the players comes after WIPA demanded an apology from the board for mismanagement in its affairs.

 

The board said that the players violated Rule 6 of the WICB Code of Conduct, which states: 'Players and team officials must not at any time engage in behaviour unbecoming that could bring the game of cricket into disrepute or be harmful to the interests of cricket'.