Caribbean

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has issued an ultimatum of legal action in its battle to win compensation from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) following West Indies’ aborted tour of India last year.

Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) president Jeffrey Webb has dismissed suggestions that he is set to stand for the presidency of Fifa.

After years of success on the track, Jamaica is looking to its sporting stars to help create a new brand identity for the country. Rob Ridley reports.

Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi is set to become the new president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), while the sport’s governing body has waded into the dispute between India and the West Indies by stating that players who disrupt international series may be barred from playing in lucrative domestic events such as the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has called for a “mutually agreeable solution” to its dispute with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has issued the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) with a $41.97m (€32.8m) damages claim in the wake of the West Indies’ withdrawal from its tour of India last month.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has suspended bilateral tours to the West Indies following the collapse of the series between the two teams last week.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is considering pursuing damages worth in the region of $65m (€51.6m) from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) after a dispute between the latter governing body and the West Indies team forced a premature end to its international series in India.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has denied that it is to cancel the remainder of its ongoing tour in India due to a pay dispute between the national body and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).

The Jamaican government has formed and launched a new agency as part of an effort to explore the commercial opportunities provided by sports tourism.

Race of Champions (ROC) organisers have switched from the motorsport event’s stadium-focused hosting concept by awarding the 2014 edition to the Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados.

US investment firm Chalak Mitre Group (CMG) has acquired the Jamaica Tallawahs, reigning champion of Twenty20 cricket competition the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has linked up with United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) in an attempt to boost the development of the sport in the US.

St Kitts and Nevis has been appointed as the host of next year’s CARIFTA Games after the Turks and Caicos Islands withdrew their bid, while the 2016 edition of the Caribbean athletics event will be held in Grenada.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has formed a new task force to examine the feasibility of a Caribbean professional league, with the English Premier League, North America’s Major League Soccer and Mexico’s Liga MX all set to have a major input into the plans.

Rally enthusiast Richard Bevan, the League Managers Association (LMA) CEO and former CEO of the English Professional Cricketers Association (PCA), was appointed chairman of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) late last year. He talks us through his sports industry career highs and lows.