T&T board offers to compensate replacements

After negotiating a compromise with the Trinidad's first-team players, the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) has offered to compensate the players they recruited as replacements for the Stanford Super Series.

Members of the replacement squad were offered "ex gratia" or compensatory payment by the TTCB after the board reached a compromise with the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) over the participation fee for the squad originally picked for the tournament.

The Trinidad and Tobago Express reported that the payouts could amount to around $3000 per player for the 14 replacements, called up after a standoff developed between the original squad and the board.

"We met with them today and gave them an ex gratia payment, but right now we don't know if there is a legal position," TTCB chief executive Forbes Persaud was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "One person was absent and the majority of them accepted."

Trinidad and Tobago play the opening match of the Stanford Super Series against the Stanford Superstars on October 25, before taking on Middlesex, the English domestic Twenty20 champions, and the England national side. The match against Middlesex will have a total prize of US$400,000 at stake.