{"id":14772,"date":"2018-04-20T02:16:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=14772"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:16:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:16:37","slug":"sir-viv-backs-caricom-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/sir-viv-backs-caricom-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Viv backs CARICOM intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Legendary former Test captain, Sir Vivian Richards, has thrown his weight behind CARICOM\u2019s efforts at governance reform in West Indies cricket.<\/p>

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The Antiguan, who never lost a Test series as skipper, said he believed the regional nation grouping\u2019s intentions were genuine and were aimed at correcting some of the problems which had plagued the sport regionally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not in anyway, in my opinion, looking to run the board or anything of that particular factor,\u201d the 66-year-old told the Observer newspaper here.<\/p>

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\u201cThey\u2019re just looking basically to address some of the problems which we have in terms of administration wise and things like that.<\/p>

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Legendary former West Indies captain, Sir Viv Richards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe saw what happened in Guyana so no government [faction] should get involved and we see that at the highest level even with FIFA and so forth, so the same applies here to the governments in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

CARICOM is challenging Cricket West Indies\u2019 right, as a private entity, to manage the \u201cpublic good\u201d of West Indies cricket.<\/p>

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In fact, the body has endorsed the 2015 Governance Report which recommended the \u201cthe immediate dissolution\u201d of CWI and the appointment of an interim board \u201cwhose structure and composition will be radically different from the now proven obsolete governance framework.\u201d<\/p>\n

While CWI has resisted, CARICOM has continued to agitate for change, and only recently approached cricket\u2019s governing body, the International Cricket Council, to lay out its position.<\/p>

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The ICC, however, made it clear it would only agree to such a meeting if embattled CWI president Dave Cameron was present, a move Sir Viv has also backed.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s good to talk, it\u2019s better to negotiate than to fight so I think that if they can meet along that particular line and to address certain issues and problematic things we would have had in terms of [administration] and the folks who are not happy with the way it is being run. You never know, talking could bring some [benefits],\u201d Sir Viv contended.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as I said, it would be of utter importance that every one of the parties meet because there is no way you can have one without the other and discuss all the issues face to face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chairman of CARICOM\u2019s Prime Ministerial sub-committee on cricket, St Vincent and the Grenadines leader Dr Ralph Gonsalves, said recently any meeting including Cameron would be welcomed.<\/p>\n

And with the ICC suggesting a November meeting, Gonsalves said in the meantime CARICOM would press ahead with laying the legislative groundwork for governance reform.<\/p>\n

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