Cricket and that striking non-action at Sabina Park
HG Helps, writing in the Jamaica Observer , describes the scene outside Sabina Park where the striking Combined Campuses and Colleges team stayed in their team bus while their opponents Jamaica didn't even show up.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
HG Helps, writing in the Jamaica Observer, describes the scene outside Sabina Park where the striking Combined Campuses and Colleges team stayed in their team bus while their opponents Jamaica didn't even show up.
A call to one senior member of the Jamaica squad confirmed that the only way that the local cricketers would be at Sabina Park that day was if someone other than Allen Stanford arranged a winner-take-all US$10 million match.
The players refused to leave their hotel and there appeared to be an arrangement for their opponents not to go onto the field of play, as they could claim the points if the other team did not turn up.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo