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Indies Cricket Board's latest claims of players breaching their contractual obligations.
In a letter to the protesting players, the WICB gave them 10 days from Thursday to explain their protest action over the last two weeks which the regional governing body noted had breached the Code of Conduct for players and team officials.
The WICB has charged that the players making themselves unavailable for the first Test against Bangladesh, as well as their refusal to travel to St. Vincent for the match, and their skipping of the official launch for the 2010 Twenty20 World Cup on July 4 in St. Lucia as breaches of their obligations.
But WIPA has denied taking strike action, and insists that players were not under contract, so they could not have breached any agreements.
"These players were under no contract with the WICB that imposed any terms, conditions, and obligations with regard to the first Test against Bangladesh and have taken no strike action within this context," said WIPA executive president Dinanath Ramnarine in a statement.
He added: "Although the players participated in the One-day Internationals against India, again there was no contract setting out what the terms, conditions, and obligations were with regard to this series, and it was their understanding (that the Twenty20 World Cup launch) was an optional event.
"Under normal circumstances, the players may well have attended (the launch) in any event without a contract.
"But after a three-hour meeting at which it came to their attention that a large number of long outstanding issues had still not been resolved, they exercised the option not to attend. A letter was subsequently sent to the president of the WICB."
In the meantime, the WICB has frozen the payments of players with retainer contracts who are part of protest action.
Media reports indicate that the majority of players the WICB have targeted are among a group of 29 who hold retainers that offer an annual fee of between 25-60,000 US dollars.
The WICB said that payments will be suspended until they indicate in writing their "resumption of obligations under the contract".
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