CWI to clear international players’ dues by this week; domestic cricketers have to wait

“As of the start of this week, we were able to email and contact the international women players and confirm that their T20 World Cup match fees will be paid in full this week. We’d already paid the prize money, as I confirmed a few weeks ago, back in March,” Grave was quoted as assaying to Mason and Guest radio show. “We’ve also confirmed to the men’s international players that their outstanding match fees from both the Ireland series and Sri Lanka series will be paid this week as well. So the international players are being brought up to speed.”

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However, Grave added: “We’re not yet in a position to do that with the franchise players. We’re working hard to try and resolve that and as I’ve assured all the players and the franchises, it is our number priority from a financial point of view, for us to clear that, and I hope to do so sooner rather than later.”

CWI has been going through a bad phase in terms of finance and the COVID-19 pandemic, which put the entire world to a halt, has made things worse for Caribbean cricket. According to Grave, the primary reason for the board facing the cash crunch was the huge loss while hosting Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2018. “When we hosted Sri Lanka and Bangladesh we made a 22 million USD loss. The media rights contract paid us less than a million dollars for those two tours,” he lamented.