Presentation time: St Kitts Cricket Association’s Stanley Franks (right) presents a cheque to Dwayne Bravo following an ODI between West Indies and Bangladesh in 2014. (WICB media)
Stanley Franks, the St Kitts Cricket Association representative to the Leeward Islands Cricket Board, said if he had his way the recently held elections of the board would be ruled null and void.
Antiguan Enoch Lewis was elected President by a 6-1 vote over St Kitts’ Auckland Hector during the organisation’s annual meeting held on Sunday.
According to Franks, however, the meeting was held prematurely as a number of requirements were not met ahead of the meeting.
“At the meeting there were only two members who had paid up in St Kitts and Antigua and so, when the meeting was on, I brought it to their attention that only two members had paid up. I was told that Montserrat had paid and Anguilla had paid, but when you pay for your shares you are issued with a shares certificate,” he said.
“All (the) procedures were not done and it could not have been done at that meeting. Nobody had shares certificate and I thought there were too many irregularities that ought to be corrected before we proceeded to the election,” he added.
St Kitts abstained from voting during the election in protest, highlighting the need for all member associations to fall in line with the new guidelines and procedures now governing the newly incorporated board.
“We were in fact, made a company through memorandum and articles of association and the statutory statement of what is now known as the Leeward Islands Development Company Ltd and also the Leeward Islands Cricket Board Ltd,” Franks said.
“Under the memorandum of association and the rules of the company there are a number of things that must be put in place for the election of officers and one of the primary requirements is that all of the members must be shareholders. Unfortunately this was not the case at the meeting that was called,” he added.
Asked if he would leave the organisation based on the latest developments, Franks said there are other options.
“Suppose it turned it that the procedure was correct and they were right? I can do another thing, I can file an injunction in the court and I have thought of it, but I have not done it. I would have to discuss this whole thing with my association to see what my association’s position is on the matter,” he said.
Lewis said one of his immediate goals in the installation of an advisory committee consisting of former regional and international players.