Sammy: On field play should never be stopped because of a dispute

Darren Sammy, captain of the highly successful West Indies T20I team, is currently playing for the Titans in the RamSlam T20 challenge (South Africa’s domestic T20 competition) and took some time off to talk about T20 cricket, West Indies’ India tour pull out and a lot more. Read on…

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You have a lot of fans in India. The RamSlam is being telecast in India on Sony Six. Talking about India, in hindsight, do you think the whole India-pull-out situation could have been handled better by both sides?

What I will say on this is – there should never be a situation where the on field play is stopped because of a dispute. Whichever board member, player or player association, cricket should always be No. 1. It is very sad what happened in India. I don’t wish for that to ever happen again. The fans who love to see us play were robbed of an opportunity to see the West Indies play and it is unfortunate. I hope that whatever relationship we had with India – between boards, between players, between players and fans – goes back to where it was before.

Will we get to see that soon?

Of course! We are going to be back. We have had a great relationship with India.

Can we expect to see all you guys playing for West Indies?

Of course. From all the reports, things are moving in the right direction. I expect all of us to be playing in the upcoming tour to South Africa…

-cricbuzz.com