00:01Questions continue to surround the decisions in West Indies cricket.
00:04First on the list, former West Indies batsman, Philo Wallace,
00:07who questions the rationale preventing pacer Jaden Seals from playing county cricket.
00:12We stopped Jaden Seals from going to England to play county cricket.
00:15He played in the last game that was abandoned because of an inferior pitch.
00:22I don't think it would be better for him to go to England and be managed to play more county
00:25cricket
00:25than for his last cricket, the Caribbean, to get him ready for the international season.
00:30But they've made some decisions that are hard, cut and dry.
00:32We don't know if they're decisions that was recommended from the cricket committee
00:35that is shared by Enoch Lewis, who is now the chairman of Coolish Cricket Ground.
00:41And I would like to hear from CWL how he's going to do both jobs.
00:45Meantime, former cricketer Roland Butcher is puzzled on the structure of the four-day tournament.
00:49You know, a season that consists of three matches really is, quite frankly,
00:55it's almost a waste of time because, if you think of the team that had a game cancelled,
01:02abandoned this season, so they had a season with two matches.
01:06I mean, that is so ridiculous.
01:08It beggars belief that, you know, first-class cricket in 2026,
01:14that a season will consist of three matches or two matches.
01:20And to play three games against the same team really is, I just don't quite understand that at all.
01:30He believes that they would have reduced the cost of the competition
01:33by playing the entire tournament in one country.
01:35It would have been better to take everybody to, all the teams to Antigua and play the matches there.
01:43I mean, where would you have to go to Jamaica and other places to send teams?
01:48I mean, that, you know, and if all the teams were in Antigua, you could play the round of games.
01:54Yeah, yeah, the five rounds of matches, yeah.
01:56You wouldn't have to move players with flights or anything.
02:00It's just accommodation and foods.
02:01However, Secretary of the West Indies Players Association, Wayne Lewis,
02:05explained that it would have been more costly as it pertains to accommodation
02:09to host the competition in one country.
02:12He also explained how TNT were made to play Lee Woods.
02:16What happened is that the teams were seeded.
02:18And they said, OK, they used the results of what happened last year
02:23in terms of where the teams placed, right?
02:25So to get some equity in the game, we decided that,
02:29and we agreed that the team who finished above the other team
02:32would travel to the other team, the weaker team,
02:34in terms of where they positioned, the way they stand last year.
02:37So because of that, Guyana won the tournament last year
02:41and they are traveling to the Caribbean to the Winoa Islands
02:43to play against the Winoa Islands, scheduled for St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
02:49Barbados came second, so we came fifth.
02:51The number one team played the number three team.
02:53The number two team played the number five team.
02:56And the three team played the number four.
02:58And that's all.
02:58And therefore, Trinidad came third and they are traveling.
03:03Sergio Dufour, TVS Export.
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