Former West Indies cricket player Brian Lara "expects the region to survive" a potential £26.2M ($41.9M) lawsuit threatened by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, according to the BBC. The BCCI expects to "recoup losses sustained when the Windies ended their tour of the country early in October due to a pay dispute." Lara: "I don't think the BCCI will be that severe on us. I believe West Indies cricket will be alive. I don't think anybody has the intention to end our game." But while the BCCI outlined its desire to play a "positive
role" in resolving the issue in a recent letter to the West Indies
Cricket Board, it also stated it would use the "fullest
extent permissible in the law" when making its case. Lara said, "There are implications and I believe the West Indies
Cricket Board have found themselves in this situation because they have
not learned from the past. ... We've got some of the best talents in the world, so I believe
West Indies cricket is going to survive and it's now about how we take
this forward." The Windies left India after the fourth One-Day Int'l on Oct. 17 because of a "dispute between board and
players over an agreement which covers both pay and conditions" (BBC, 11/3).
