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Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006

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Windies players' contracts finalised

Basseterre: Cricket in the Caribbean averted a major crisis with the board and the players' association finalising contracts for the West Indian cricketers.

After days of dilly-dallying and verbal duels, both the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and West Indies Players Association (WIPA) have agreed on match tour contracts for the current series against India and retainer contracts for an undisclosed number of players. A formal announcement would be made soon in this regard, revealed WICB chief cricket operations officer Zorol Barthley.

``What I want to say is that for this home series against India we are operating on a match tour contract,'' Barthley said.

Retainer contracts

``There have been some discussions with WIPA obviously over the last couple of days, things have been finalised and I think an official release is going to be coming from the board and WIPA, but I can guarantee you that after fourth (and final) Test in Jamaica, the next time a West Indies cricket team takes the field, it will be on the retainer contracts,'' he elaborated. — UNI

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