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| West Indies Cricket Board confirms India tour is over | West Indies Cricket Board confirms India tour is over |
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| The West Indies Cricket Board has announced that its tour of India has been cancelled due to a pay dispute with the players. | The West Indies Cricket Board has announced that its tour of India has been cancelled due to a pay dispute with the players. |
| The WICB held a meeting on Friday when they were informed that the players had “taken a decision to withdraw their services for the remainder of the tour of India”. | The WICB held a meeting on Friday when they were informed that the players had “taken a decision to withdraw their services for the remainder of the tour of India”. |
| The West Indies will not play the remaining five matches which were scheduled – the fifth one day international, a T20 international and three Test matches. The announcement ended what had been a day of confusion and conflicting statements where the BCCI announced midway through the hosts’ innings that the tour was to end saying it was “shocked and extremely disappointed at the decision taken by the WICB”. | |
| The WICB says it will now hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday “to conduct a thorough assessment of all the ramifications of the premature end to the tour”. India have lined up Sri Lanka as replacements and will play them in a five-match one-day series. |