ABSTRACT
Sports Law academics and practitioners within and outside of the Commonwealth Caribbean will agree that the future of Sports Law is bright. Some advocates have already postulated theories for the development of Olympic Law as well as Global Administrative Law as core tenets of Sports Law in the future. One of the most conspicuous features of the acceptance of Sports Law in legal and academic circles is the plethora of sports-related statutes that can be found on the global stage. Caribbean cricket differs from most other nations playing the sport, because the team is comprised of players from a number of sovereign countries in the Caribbean. The West Indies Players Association (WIPA), therefore, plays a crucial role as it seeks to represent the interests of cricketers from various territories with different cultures and, sometimes, as mentioned before, different legal systems.
