Denying Ramnaresh Sarwan a contract is justified

The West Indies board has done the right thing by not offering Ramnaresh Sarwan a retainer contract, writes Tony Becca in the Jamaica Gleaner. He says that the board has to get strict on the issue of players' fitness if the West Indies are to get back to their glory days.

West Indies cricket has always talked about testing players for their fitness before a series or before a tour, and it has always had doctors available to whom the players should go for medical examinations.

The history of West Indies cricket, however, is filled with players who have not attended those fitness tests, players who failed those fitness tests and players who blatantly refused to do their medicals.

No one, not that I can remember, has ever been penalised for refusing to do the tests or the medicals, for failing the test and the medicals and that is the gospel.