“In some instances the failure to pay in full has been paired with threatening and intimidatory behaviour by Nationwide Governing Our bodies to participant teams,” the WCA mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
ESPNcricinfo understands that gamers from 5 of the 20 taking part groups – of which eight had been Affiliate Members of the ICC – haven’t been paid their dues.
“We’re extraordinarily involved with a variety of international locations who’re nonetheless but to pay gamers their prize cash from the lads’s T20 World Cup held within the US and Caribbean earlier within the yr, and particularly with a variety of threats made in opposition to gamers who arise for themselves and their colleagues in some cricket environments,” Tom Moffat, WCA chief government, mentioned. “We admire the ICC’s efforts to this point in making certain the gamers concerned are paid in full, and are sure the ICC will proceed to take all acceptable steps in opposition to any Boards who don’t accomplish that, and to implement their very own Phrases of Participation.
“Each participant in our sport ought to obtain the advantages they’re entitled to in full, and ought to be supplied with a secure setting to play, work, and advocate for themselves and their colleagues off subject, by a gamers’ affiliation in the event that they select.”
The assertion was launched after the WCA board met this week in Singapore for its annual normal assembly, the place it additionally authorized the institution of a World Participant Hardship Fund.
The fund, the WCA mentioned, has been designed to assist worldwide gamers in want “who should not coated by the sport’s present home frameworks for assist”.
JP Van Wyk, WCA’s head of welfare and schooling, mentioned, “Skilled athletes face distinctive challenges of their brief careers and we all know by the good work that many gamers’ associations do at home stage that tailor-made participant welfare assist constructions have supported gamers of their time of want. We additionally know that in an more and more international participant employment market there are notable gaps within the present system in aiding gamers in excessive instances of hardship.
“Though this fund will function inside sure constraints, and can complement home choices, we’re sure it’ll help these present and not too long ago retired worldwide cricketers who’re presently unsupported and susceptible.”
The fund can be ruled by “an oversight group” made up of specialists and gamers’ affiliation representatives.
In the meantime, Heath Mills and Sana Mir have been reappointed government chair and unbiased director respectively.
