Cricket West Indies to reduce salaries of their players and staff by 50 percent due to corona virus outbreak

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Cricket West Indies(CWI) has temporarily slashed the salaries of cricket players, staff and coaches by 50 per cent for the next few months in response to the debilitating effects of the coronavirus epidemic.

Due to the coronavirus epidemic, cricket is nowhere in the world and every sports body in the world is facing financial loss. CWI, like every cricket body in the world, is in crisis due to uncertainty about when cricket will begin. The uncertainty of the crisis has adversely affected our cricketing activities.

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The CWI said during a statement on Saturday. "In this context, the CWI Board of Directors has agreed with a concept with deep regret that we hope to guard the longer term of the CWI while providing a minimum of a minimum level of job security for all those employed or contracted across the region." Community. "The effects of this epidemic are devastating for everybody - the worst crisis of our lives - and that we cannot be sure when things will improve now," said CWI chief executive Johnny Graves. "We acknowledge that this can cause financial pain for all our staff, players, coaches and umpires across the Caribbean, but we've kept everyone on full pay since the start of March. we've no choice but to require action next month. "The biggest asset of CWI is our people and players and sharing equally in temporary reductions. We believe this can be the most effective way for us to beat this crisis and secure all jobs in our organization and system. we'll review the case regularly with the reassurance that we are very We'll be ready to go back to to normal soon.

The CWI has given a bio-protected approval for the Test match betweens  West Indies and England in England in Friday. The West Indies will travel to England in early June to play three Tests against England, but the tour has been postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The England and Wales Cricket (ECB) Board is preparing to start the Test series against the West Indies in July. The England Cricket Board will play the series against the West Indies and after that The ECB will play next three Test matches against Pakistan.