Before we dealt with things in an ad hoc manner and now we have measures in place for the betterment of all concerned.We stand ready to support the board and new captain Brian Lara, and we will be looking to move the game forward with all our best efforts.

Our position is that we are very committed to getting the retainer contracts on stream. We have been working on a number of documents, the collective agreement, the Memorandum of Understanding, the Code of Conduct, the match tour contracts and that sort of thing.

We would have preferred not to have had to deal with such a situation.

Don't try to be better than someone else. Just try to be better than you were the day before

It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Never let anyone convince you of anything negative about yourself unless it is for your own betterment.