WICB denies accommodation fiasco

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has refuted claims that it was responsible for skewed accommodation arrangements for three regional teams in Trinidad and Tobago last week, when the teams arrived for the first class championship.



Players from Jamaica, Barbados and the Windward Islands were forced to sleep in the corridors of the Cascadia Hotel after arriving on an early morning flight from Guyana and being unable to check in until mid-afternoon.



Ernest Hilaire, the WICB’s chief executive says the board was only responsible for financing accommodation arrangements and not the actual planning.



The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) said last week that it was not responsible for making the bookings and contended the WICB has been informed not to land the teams on Carnival Tuesday, the final day of the country’s carnival celebrations which is also a national holiday.



However, Hilaire says the Board usually made all travel arrangements for teams but argued that any impression given that the WICB faltered in making adequate accommodation arrangements was not fair or accurate.



Hilaire says there are persons who did not do what was expected of them and trying to put the blame on the Board.