Government's establishment of Cricket IMC is in complianace with Court decision

There is a group of disgruntled political relics who have throughout the years seen every progressive move by successive PPP/C governments since 1992 in the negative sense. This group is on record as having opposed everything done under the sun. Therefore it wan't strange when they waylaid government's attempt to return Guyana's Cricket at the pinnacle it once stood at by intervening in the prolonged dispute between warring factions.

However these bitter old souls have ignored the mandate given by none other than Chief Justice Ian Chang when he noted in his ruling that the existence of a ministry responsible for sport in general indicates that the State has assumed responsibility for the welfare, promotion and proper administration of sports in Guyana. And that, since in the present state of affairs, while a legislative structure for the administration of cricket is desirable, there may be the immediate need for the minister responsible for sport to impose his executive will in the national interest until such time as parliament can provide a more permanent welfare structure. In response they have posited that the ICC recently made a declaration in which its threatened action against cricketing nations whose boards are government controlled. This may be true but the government's formation of an IMC which has as its aim, among other things, to draft a new constitution for the GCB that would go to all county boards and other stakeholders for their deliberations and adoption, to bring together into one board the factions of the Demerara Cricket Board and to review on all GCB's financial transactions through an independent auditor can in no way be equated with a government take-over of Cricket administration in Guyana.

Further, the ICC declaration was seen as directed primarily at Pakistan, where the president is board patron, and Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, where the sports ministries are directly involved in the running of things, down to approving team selection. In fact the Sri Lankan ministry last week vetoed seam bowler Nuwan Kulasekara's choice as a replacement player on the current tour of South Africa, bringing in uncapped Kanishka Alvitigala instead and this sort of government interference is not practiced in Guyana.