West Indies Announces Three Different Contracts for its Players
Updated - 30 Jan 2018, 12:50 PM
Cricket West Indies has initiated a new system of different contracts for Test and limited-overs international players. It will have three brackets: all-format contracts, red-ball contracts, and white-ball contracts. This method will come into effect from July 1.
Six cricketers have been offered red ball contracts while five were given white ball contracts. Five players namely, Jason Holder, Shannon Gabriel, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Devendra Bishoo – have been contracted for all formats.
The new system comes in the wake of an increasing number of players opting out of the national team in favour of T20 tournaments. Recently, three cricketers chose to walk out of the World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe to play the Pakistan Super League.
“The new retainer contracts aim to incentivize our players to play cricket for the WINDIES and be contracted to CWI,” Johnny Grave, the chief executive officer of CWI, said.
“All the new contracts offer increased remuneration to our WINDIES men’s team as well as enhanced medical and insurance policies. All future contracts for all of our professional cricketers will start on the same date, July 1, which will become the start of our cricketing year,” he added further.
Under the new system, maximum 11 all-format contracts can get awarded. For red-ball and white-ball contracts, the aggregate can go to 11, and the total number of contracts is capped at 18.
Four new development contracts can also be offered to players in the red-ball and white-ball categories. These contracts are for the players who are yet to establish themselves in the first XI but are likely to be selected in the coming year.
The process of picking players was completed last July, ahead of the issue of domestic contracts to the 90 regional professional cricketers on August 1. While the national men’s team is officially on contract till September 2018, the new retainers will be issued to both national and regional players on July 1, to ensure all professional cricketers start their new contracts on the same date.
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