Guyana CL T20 players not yet paid

Jan 07, 2011 Sports

Stadium and lights made available to National team

By Sean Devers

The participation fee and prize money owned to the Guyana cricket team which participated in the 2010 Airtel Champions League T20 tournament in South Africa has not yet been paid to the players but a Director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said this was no fault of the regional board.
The South American team, dubbed the Amazon Conquerors, was sponsored by the Guyana Government, but the team, which lost all four of its matches in South Africa after qualifying by winning the inaugural Caribbean T20 tournament last year, has also not yet been fully paid by their sponsors.
Teams were to be paid 21 days after the last match of the competition but although the participation fee or prize money is yet to be received by the players who are preparing for the 2nd edition of the Caribbean T20 which starts in Antigua on Monday, the WICB Director explained that three teams were holding up the payment process.
“We are as disappointed as the players since we have already sent in the invoice to CLT20 for the participation fee. We (WICB) were told that three teams are yet to submit their invoices and that invoices of all of the teams which participated must be submitted before payments are made out,” the WICB official informed.
The official added that when Trinidad and Tobago reached the final in 2009 there was also a long delay in them receiving their money.
When contacted a Guyana Cricket Board official stated that the WICB is responsible for sending in the invoices for the participation fee and then collecting the payment for CLT20 and passing it on to the GCB.
He added that the GCB had to send invoices for prize money earned in the competition and that was done for the prize Skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan won for his 70 in the final match against the South African Lion.
It was revealed that the Lions, along with Sachin Tendulkar’s Mumbai Indians and a New Zealand side are the guilty teams causing the delay in payments by CLT20.When contacted yesterday Guyana’s Sports Minister Dr Frank Anthony confirmed that a portion of the $20 Million sponsorship was paid to the GCB.
The Minister could not provide an exact date on which the balance would be paid.
Meanwhile, there was good news for the Guyanese who depart tomorrow morning for their opening match against Jamaica on Monday since the Guyana National Stadium, which hosted the final of the Kashif & Shangai Football competition last Sunday evening, was made available for the players to do fielding sessions under lights last evening.
Manager Carl Moore had said that the unavailability of the Stadium for practice matches would have affected the Sarwan led team who played two practice matches in Trinidad during the last week of last year.
A GCB official informed that efforts were being made to have the Stadium pitch prepared for a possible practice match this evening as Guyana, the most successful team in regional T20 cricket with just one loss in 11 matches from 2006, wrap up preparations on home soil. Guyana are grouped with Jamaica, CCC, the Windward Islands and English County Somerset and the highest placed regional team in the 10 team competition will qualify for this year’s Champions League T20 tournament to be played in India.

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