Ramnaresh Sarwan. Photo courtesy goldenjags.com
The West Indies cricket board will have to fork out one million Trinidad and Tobago dollars to pay its former captain Ramnaresh Sarwan for publicly denigrating and humiliating the Guyanese and Leicestershire middle order batsman.
The payment is part of 1.5 million t & t dollar pay out in damages which the WICB incurred recently.
Sarwan was awarded the damages after winning his arbitration matter against the WICB, a case in which he was cleared of all charges levelled against him by WICB ceo Ernest Hillaire regarding his fitness and attitude.
Arbitrator Seenath Jairam found the WICB guilty of breaching the selection process and not operating in a fair and transparent manner.
The judgement also revealed that the board failed to comply with the appraisal process, breaching the principles of natural justice by failing to give Sarwan an opportunity to be heard causing him significant loss and damage.
In addition, 85 percent of the cost of conducting the arbitration proceedings have to paid by the WICB, a figure amounting to 500,000 t & t dollars.
All this comes on the heels of the 14 million t & t dollars awarded to the West Indies players association on behalf of its members over various breaches of contract.
Article courtesy http://rjrnewsonline.com
