BRIDGETOWN Barbados (AP):THE WEST INDIES Cricket Board (WICB) has postponed its annual meeting to allow more time to receive nominations for the posts of president and vice president, an official said.
The board received no nominations for either post by Thursday's deadline, prompting it to postpone the meeting from July 17 to August 7, cricket board spokesman Leonard Robertson said late on Friday. Nominations must be submitted 30 days before the meeting.
CONSIDERATIONS
Cricket board president Teddy Griffith announced last week that he would not seek re-election at
the meeting in St. Maarten. Griffith,
69, said personal and family considera-tions would prevent him from committing himself to the two years through to the 2007 World Cup. The West Indies will host the World Cup for the first time.
The board's failure to receive nominations was surprising because several names had been swirling for the post of president.
One was legendary former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, who announced on Wednesday he wanted the job.
Former West Indies wicket-keeper Deryck Murray, former board president Pat Rousseau, former West Indies manager Tony Marshall were also among the names that had been tipped.
NOMINATION SOURCES
Nominations must come from the boards of local West Indies teams.
Griffith, a business executive and former left-handed opening batsman, was elected president in September 2003.
He presided over the controversial switch last year in sponsorship of the West Indies team from Britain-based telecommunications company Cable & Wireless to Irish rival Digicel.
The change provoked a dispute between the board and players who had individual endorsement contracts with Cable & Wireless. Brian Lara and six others were excluded from the first Test against South Africa in April.
The six were reinstated after Cable & Wireless released them from their contracts, but Lara was replaced as captain by Shivnarine Chanderpaul.
