Inter-island rivalries have always made picking a West Indies team difficult. Since they lost their world-champion crown to Australia in 1995, selection has become virtually impossible as dozens of players have been tried and tested … and failed. The same problem has infiltrated the process of appointing a coach. Choosing someone to guide the side, and stay there, has been nothing short of a nightmare, and the West Indies Cricket Board is now looking for help from yet another island: Australia.A leaked e-mail from board sources says that the Australian academy head coach Bennett King will soon be moving to the Caribbean. Greg Chappell was ruled out because his asking price was too high, and Peter Moores, the Sussex coach, was also a contender. Only one West Indian – who has, amazingly, remained unnamed – was on the short-list to replace Gus Logie. Logie was the second choice last year, after King rejected the job after another bungled selection process. King was called by a board official and told he had got the job and the media had been alerted. However, according to King, negotiations were barely in the initial stages, and he decided to stay with the close-knit Australia cricket academy.So Logie, who coached West Indies A before finding himself mentoring Canada at the 2003 World Cup, was given a job most of the applicants hadn’t wanted. He stayed long enough to win the Champions Trophy in England last month, but left by mutual consent when that tournament finished.This time the WI Board is trying to be more careful, although this strategy still hasn’t worked: “We have treated it [the selection process] with a degree of strict confidentially that we intend to maintain,” Roger Brathwaite, the WICB chief executive, told the Trinidad & Tobago Express. “We will only make the appropriate announcement when both parties are in full agreement and the contract has been signed.”But the leaked e-mail says King has accepted the job and the board plans to unveil him next week. The move means King will become West Indies’ first foreign coach. Rohan Kanhai was the team’s initial choice in 1992, and Andy Roberts, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Vivian Richards and Roger Harper followed. But the board has come to the end of the list of 1980s heroes, while the old problems remain both on and off the field. The Champions Trophy already seems a long time ago.

Muttiah MuralitharanOn his performance
I bowled well but if Vaas had been bowling I would not have got 10 wicketsin the game. He is a great bowler, but unfortunately he got injured and itwas my turn. I just had to put the ball in the right places as they wereinexperienced cricketers.The younger guys gave us a good fight and theirteam spirit was obviously high. They wanted to do well. But the batting wasa little bit thinner.On whether he is going to race Warne again for records
As you can see on TV, Shane is bowling really well in the Ashes and I amnot thinking about records at the moment. I just want to play well and dowell for Sri Lanka now. I am not setting targets for wickets because I wantto focus on winning matches for Sri Lanka. The team doing well is the mostimportant thingOn his shoulder
The county stint helped me come through the injury. I had to play throughsome shoulder pain at the start but it got better and better My shoulder isperfectly alright now. There is always room for improvement but my bowlingis normal and the shoulder has not had any bad effectsOn his future
I think I can go on for at least three or four years. After the World Cup,if I can play just Test cricket, then I think I can continue until 2009. Butit depends on how well the Sri Lanka team is doing and how long I can takethe pressureShivnarine Chanderpaul
On his team’s performance
We have been doing a lot of work and it is going to take some time. We havesome young guys and they are learning – they will come around eventually.Our fielding and catching was very good and our bowling in patches, like atthe start of this test match, showed some fight.On whether he felt the pressure being the batting pillar
There is always pressure there and you just go out there to do your job as abatter. I was just looking to go out there and stick around so the otherguys could bat around me. It didn’t happen but that is just one of thosethings.On the ODI series
We are just going to put this behind us and concentrate on the one-dayseries. It is a shorter version of the game and our guys are accustomed toplaying one-day cricket so it should be better for us. We just want to comeout and play some positive cricket.Marvan Atapattu
On the positives to come out of the series
A lot of positives came out of the series but the main positive was themental toughness shown to fight ourselves back into the game. In most cases,in Sri Lanka, we are used to batting one innings and then trying to bowl outthe opposition twice, but it didn’t happen here and we had close battlesuntil the fourth innings.On the West Indies batting performance
They kept us guessing and gave us a bit of thinking to do in the dressingroom from time to time, which we enjoyed, and in the end it was more joyfulto overcome them because of that. They are a young side but they had nothingto lose. The pressure was on our side.On Sri Lanka’s reliance on Murali
There is a reliance on Murali but we cannot change that. We all know MuttiahMuralitharan’s abilities and until he retires we will depend on him.On the top order’s poor form
It is a matter of one innings in the end. We are not doing thingsdrastically wrong. You just need one innings to be back again in the runs.Kumar did it in style this time and hopefully, sooner rather than later, theothers will chip in to.On managing Vaas’s fitness
Vaasy has been carrying the burden for some time now. We have to manage himcarefully thinking about the cricket we are going to be playing in the nest12 months. We need him to be right and on the park when we really need himrather than throwing him into every game.

Lancashire are considering lodging a formal protest against the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after Andrew Flintoff’s withdrawal from Lancashire’s C&G Trophy semi-final versus Warwickshire on August 20.Jack Simmons, the chairman at Lancashire, was angry that all the national players had pulled out of the C&G Trophy matches after playing back-to-back Tests against Australia. The ECB said that Flintoff, who is currently taking a break in France, was carrying an ankle injury sustained against Australia, but Simmons was not convinced with that explaination. “If he has an ankle injury what treatment is he getting over there [in France]? The first I heard about it was at lunchtime when I learned that the ECB had circulated an email pulling all the England players out of the two semis,” said Simmons, in a report in sportinglife.com. “You would have thought England would have had the courtesy to talk to me first about it. This, after all, is a chance to reach our first Lord’s final since 1998, it is a massive game for the club.”The agreement between the counties and the ECB states that the centrally contracted players will be allowed to play in the C&G games unless they had an injury. “We weren’t told that Freddie was unfit until I rang an ECB official who was on holiday,” said Simmons. “Before that all we knew was that he would not be at Edgbaston and to say I was angry is an understatement.”Simmons said that he had no problem if Flintoff had withdrawn to be in better shape for the fourth Test at Trent Bridge but was angry because of the way the issue was handled by the ECB. “I’m now assured that the medical officer Peter Gregory believes he should not play on Saturday, and that by resting instead of being involved in the semi-final, he will be in better condition to take on the Aussies at Trent Bridge and, while that information came to us far too late, I am prepared to accept his word,” said Simmons. “After all there is no-one more passionate about England winning the Ashes than I. If this helps, fine. But the way the ECB have handled this leaves me feeling rather sad.”Robin Smith, the chairman at Yorkshire, shared Simmons’s anger at England’s handling of the situation as Yorkshire will take the field without Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard for their semi-final at the Rose Bowl against a Hampshire line up which will not include Kevin Pietersen. “We weren’t properly informed of England’s action, and we have no specific details of Hoggard’s niggle,” said Smith. “We’ll be contacting the board to complain about the way this had been dealt with.”

Greg Chappell’s suggestion that Sourav Ganguly should step down from the captaincy was an honest opinion expressed during mutual discussions, and not an open demand as it has come to being portrayed after Ganguly made it public at a press conference during the first Test between India and Zimbabwe.In fact, this was a matter strictly between the captain and coach till the day before the Bulawayo Test when Ganguly chose to involve Rahul Dravid, the vice-captain, and Amitabh Chowdhary, the administrative manager. Cricinfo has spoken to a few sources close to the Indian team to piece together the full story.Chappell’s suggestion was neither abrupt nor out of the blue, but a result of several discussions over the composition of the team and planning for the future. Chappell was a strong proponent of picking the best possible XI, and during one of the frank discussions between coach and captain, he suggested that India would be better served if Ganguly focused on getting his batting organised by stepping down from the captaincy.Perhaps taken by surprise, Ganguly asked Chappell if he was serious. Chappell said that if Ganguly was interested in an honest opinion, then he had it. The ideal Indian Test middle-order, according to Chappell, was Dravid, Laxman, Yuvraj and Kaif. This discussion took place in Mutare, where India were playing a warm-up game.The matter of team selection came up again before the first Test. Mohammed Kaif, who had looked India’s best batsman in the triangular one-day series that preceded the Test, was included in the XII and when it came to choosing between him and Yuvraj Singh, another batsman who had done well in the one-dayers, Ganguly asked Chappell for his preference. Chappell reiterated that he should pick the best XI and when Ganguly pushed him for a frank opinion, Chappell said that left to him, he would have them both in the team ahead of Ganguly.Ganguly once again asked if Chappell was serious and Chappell replied that he should consider the long-term future of Indian cricket and think about his legacy rather than his immediate future. He added that it was a decision that he should take himself, and if and when he chose to step down, he should do so with good grace.Ganguly then stormed off to the dressing-room, summoned Dravid and Chowdhary and informed them that he was packing his bags and leaving because Chappell didn’t want him in the team. Chowdhary then asked Chappell to join in and it was decided that the captain leaving in the middle of a tour would be disastrous. Ganguly stayed on, but the matter didn’t stay inside the dressing-room.”By choosing to go public, Sourav has drawn the battle lines,” said a source close to team. “It’s now difficult to see how they can both work together. The Indian board will now have to choose between one of them.”Click here to send us your feedback on the issue.

Graeme Smith is confident his plan to use only two specialist fast bowlers will pay off as the Super Test ages on an SCG pitch already assisting the spinners. The World XI decided to strengthen the batting in the six-day Super Test and preferred the allrounder Jacques Kallis to Shaun Pollock for the third seamer’s role.Kallis, who took 0 for 35 from seven overs, has been used as a specialist first-change bowler only twice for South Africa in the past four years and Smith said the move was a “gamble that would reap benefits”. “The two spinners are definitely going to offer a lot and the selection panel decided on an extra batsmen and Jacques doing the top-up,” he said. “It’s turning a lot out of the rough and from day three onwards things will start to happen.”The World XI will start the second day with a new ball and Smith said he hoped to dismiss Australia for under 400. “The first innings is crucial, we need to get into a good position and then push things in the second,” he said. “It was a reasonable day. We grafted hard, if anything the total was 20 or 30 runs too much.” Smith said the match felt like a Test and he was pleased with the bowling performance on a slow pitch and conditions offering swing for only the first 30 minutes.Smith also responded to claims in Michael Vaughan’s autobiography that he had called Andrew Flintoff, who bowled well with Steve Harmison in the morning session, a “big baby” during England’s tour of South Africa last year. “There are no problems,” he said. “It’s sad when you take things on the field off the field.”Following Smith’s debut series in 2001-02 he exposed the Australians’ sledging in a magazine article and his stance has changed. “When you play competitively you sometimes say things you regret and I was naïve when I did it,” he said. “We are all playing to win for our countries, and we are all getting on well this week.”

England’s cricket team flew into Pakistan early Wednesday for a 58-day tour. There were some initial anxieties regarding the tour following security troubles and the devastating South Asian earthquake.The 14-man squad led by Michael Vaughan and the team officials were greeted by tight security of around 150 police personnel and commandos who had cordoned off the Islamabad International Airport’s VIP lounge, from where the team was whisked off to a hotel in 20 minutes.Two members of the squad – allrounder Andrew Flintoff and pacer Steve Harmison – will arrive next week. They are now in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to raise quake relief funds.Meanwhile, Ashley Giles, the England left-arm spinner, has told his team-mates they should prepare themselves for a hard-fought series in Pakistan as they look to build on their Ashes-winning exploits.Giles, one of five survivors from England’s last tour of Pakistan, said: “It will be a very tough series for us. Everyone is on a high still and very excited about what has happened in the Ashes. But this is another stepping stone to becoming the best side in the world, so we still have a lot of work to do. We have to draw strength from what we have done and learn from our experiences, but it will be a tough and very different challenge. If we go into it lightly it could easily bite us quite hard. We must be ready so we can come out on top and enjoy our Christmas.”Giles was making his name in international cricket when England last toured Pakistan five years ago, winning the three-match series 1-0 after a dramatic victory in fading light on the final day of the third Test saw them become the first visiting team to win a Test in Karachi. He said patience would be vital if this tour were to become the high spot again of a 50-Test career featuring 137 wickets at a shade under 39 apiece. “We managed in 2000 to stick at it and stay with them until the final hurdle when we won that great game in Karachi,” he explained. “That was a personal highlight in my career.”Giles has usually operated as a lone spinner for England but if, as is often the case in Pakistan, the pitches are dusty and dry he could find himself being partnered by Hampshire veteran Shaun Udal or Warwickshire’s Alex Loudon. The off-spinners’ prospects of making what, in both cases, would be a Test debut have been increased by the withdrawal through injury of reverse-swing specialist Simon Jones, one of England’s Ashes heroes. And Giles said he was looking forward to playing alongside another spinner, especially Udal who appeared in the last of his 10 one-day international caps a decade ago.”I always enjoy bowling with another spinner. You pick up a bit of rhythm and can create more pressure and get on top of batsmen together. I hope we will play two spinners. I can learn from ‘Shaggy’ [Udal] as much as he can learn from me, because he is a very experienced bowler. We have three spinners, and I don’t think any of them will be written off. I have to do my job, because I have two guys up my back now looking to put me under pressure.”

Courtney Walsh and Michael Holding, bowling greats, differ on the chances of the West Indies making a fist of their three-Test cricket series against Australia, set to begin at Brisbane on Thursday.Walsh, till recently a wicket-taking world record-holder in Tests, believes the West Indies can spring a surprise by winning a Test in Australia, something they haven’t done since February 1997. “Definitely, I think the way they’ve started (the tour) would have given them a lot of confidence,” he said on Tuesday. “It’s the first time this team has played together in about two or three tours because of politics (over sponsorship).”These guys have a chance to gel here, and I’m sure that they’re going to play some good consistent cricket. They’re up against the best team. It’s going to be hard but if you want to make a mark you’ve got to play against the best.”Holding, another former West Indies great, disagrees and forecasts that the Caribbean tourists will be drubbed 3-0 by Ricky Ponting’s side, determined to prove they are still world cricket’s top team after losing the Ashes to England last September. “People don’t like to hear the truth, but this group does not possess the right attitude to win Test matches,” Holding said.”I’m concerned about their general focus. They aren’t focused on their game enough. They aren’t focused on representing the Windies enough.”The West Windies are the last touring team to win a series in Australia, winning 2-1 in 1992-93, but they were spanked 5-0 by the Australians on their last visit down under in 2000-01. The one-time powerhouse of world cricket have fallen on hard times and are looking to recapture lost glory under the coaching of Australian Bennett King, who went to the Caribbean last year with the pedigree of having coached Queensland and the Australian Cricket Academy. “I think you’ll see a change in their fortunes sometime, but certainly it’s quite young in their development,” King said.The Windies had the better of Queensland in the warm-up four-day tour match at Brisbane last weekend. Marlon Samuels was the stand-out with his highest first-class score of 257 and a best return of five wickets.The Caribbean tourists have a formidable battery of quicks in Jermaine Lawson (50 wickets in 12 Tests), Fidel Edwards (45 wickets in 17 Tests) and Tino Best (26 wickets in 12 Tests). Walsh likes what he sees in Edwards, a 23-year-old from Barbados. “He could be a handful if he can get things right,” Walsh said. “He swings the ball away and he’s got some good pace.”Australia will have a Test debutant this week when Mike Hussey opens the innings with Matthew Hayden, after Justin Langer pulled out with a broken rib. No Australian ever has made more first-class runs (15,313 runs at 52.8) before making his Test debut.

After surviving a dropped catch, a couple of airy wafts outside off stump and some inside edges, Mohammad Yousuf guided Pakistan out of trouble in the afternoon to something approaching level footing.He arrived to the crease at 12 for 2, after Shoaib Malik and Asim Kamal were sent back just before lunch. He got off the mark immediately after lunch, with a flick off his hips square on the leg side for four. An hour into the session and he had reached his second fifty of the series, with a boundary, driven through the covers on the up and on the walk. By the close of play, having lost Inzamam-ul-Haq to injury and Hasan Raza to a loose shot, Yousuf was unbeaten on 84.”Inzamam was injured and so I became the senior player and there was extra responsibility on me,” said Yousuf.” He’s the best player in the team without a doubt but I just willed myself to concentrate even harder after he left the field. Before he left he said `just concentrate on staying out there till the end’.”As the afternoon set in, Steve Harmison roused himself and England with a hostile spell, in which he struck Inzamam on the wrist, dismissed Raza and was unlucky not to have picked up more wickets. Yousuf said the spell was among the best he had ever faced. “Harmison bowled superbly today. I have only faced bowling of this quality from Ambrose and Walsh in the West Indies in 2000. This was one of the best spells I have faced in my career. I played according to the plan I had and I am happy that I played well against them.”Harmison, unlike other bowlers, found steepling bounce during his spell, something Yousuf attributed to the inconsistent nature of the pitch. “The pitch is not that difficult to bat on and still okay for batting. The thing is, one side of the pitch has bounce and the other one doesn’t have as much. But if you concentrate then it’s good for batting and bowling.”It is still unclear, meanwhile, how serious Inzamam’s injury is and whether or not he will be able to resume his innings tomorrow. Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, said, “He’s gone to the hospital for an X-ray. We think it is just a precautionary measure and it is just a bad bruise. The swelling had gone down after we put ice on it. But I can’t confirm whether or not he will bat tomorrow. Obviously we hope he will.”Inzamam, as he has done through the series, looked in regal form today in compiling an untroubled 35. In the first over after tea, however, with Pakistan on 148 for 3, he tried to fend off a rising ball from Harmison, which struck him on his wrist. Having completed the single, Inzamam underwent considerable treatment on the field before reluctantly heading off, in some visible discomfort.Still 103 runs behind, with Shoaib Akhtar at the crease and the lower order to come, Pakistan will nervously await the results of Inzamam’s x-ray and hope that he is fit to resume tomorrow. In a landmark series, Inzamam has yet to be dismissed for under 50, has scored over 300 runs with twin centuries in the second Test and become the highest century maker for Pakistan in the process. He is also now just 10 runs short of becoming only the second Pakistani after Javed Miandad to score 8000 Test runs.

December 8, 1995 – Makes his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Perth, scoring 96 at No. 5 before being given out lbw by Khizer Hayat with the ball heading well over the stumps.December 3, 1996 – Is dropped after the second Test against West Indies at Sydney where he makes only 9 and 4. One match earlier he scored 88 against the same opposition in his first match at No. 3.July 24, 1997 – Returns to the Test team with a bang at Headingley, batting at No. 6 and scoring his maiden century with 127. With Matthew Elliott he lifts Australia from 4 for 50 to 9 declared for 501.December 27, 1997 – Scores his first hundred at home, a fine 105 against South Africa at the MCG.December 15, 1998 – Is replaced by Darren Lehmann after making 5 and 10 in the third Test against England at AdelaideJanuary 17, 1999 – Goes nightclubbing after a one-day match against England and early the next morning is photographed with a black eye after being punched outside a Sydney bar. Receives a three-match ban and $5000 suspended fine and admits to a drinking problem.

March 27, 1999 – Reaches a century on his return to the side for the second time with 104 against West Indies in the third match in Barbados. Ponting shares a record fifth-wicket stand for Australia against West Indies of 281 with Steve Waugh, breaking a 44-year-old mark.September 9, 1999 – A boy-on-the-burning-deck innings, Ponting makes 96 against a rampaging Murali and Vaas , the only Australian score above 50, and in the second innings when everybody else fails, makes another half-century. He goes on to hit an unbeaten 105 in the third and final Test at Colombo, his first Test century in the subcontinent and bags the Man of the Series award.November 27, 1999 – After three consecutive ducks, Ponting posts his highest score so far with 197 against Pakistan at the WACA.February 4, 2000 – Ponting injures his ankle when sliding into the boundary fence at the SCG while fielding in a one-day final against Pakistan. The injury forces Ponting out of the tour of New Zealand and a three-match one day series in South Africa.March 22, 2002 – First game as one-day captain after replacing Steve Waugh. Scores 14 as Australia beat South Africa in Johannesburg by 19 runsJune 22, 2002 Marries Rianna Cantor, a 23-year-old law student in Sydney.March 23, 2003 – Leads Australia to World Cup victory over India with a magnificent 140, which includes four fours and eight sixes.February / March, 2001 – Makes 17 runs in five innings in the series against India, raising questions about his play against high-quality spin.August 16, 2001 – Under pressure after a poor run, he responds with 144 at Headingley and his position hasn’t been in danger since.November 23, 2002 – Records hundreds in three consecutive Tests with 154 against England in Adelaide to follow 123 in Brisbane and 150 against Pakistan at Sharjah.

December 28, 2003 – Joins Bradman as the second player to score three double-centuries in a calendar year with 257 against India at the MCG. He reached 242 in the previous match and 206 against West Indies in April, helping him to 1503 runs at 100.2 for 2003. His performances would win him the 2004 Allan Border Medal.March 8, 2004 – Captains Australia for the first time in a Test after replacing Steve Waugh. Reaches 21 and 28 as Australia win by 197 runs at Galle.September 21, 2004 – Breaks his finger fielding in the Champions Trophy semi-final loss to England, ruling him out of the first three Tests of the historic India series and signalling an end to Australia’s dominance over England.January 3, 2005 – Posts first century as captain almost a year after taking over from Steve Waugh and makes it a double with 207 against Pakistan at the SCG. It is his 18th innings and 10th Test as leader.September 12, 2005 – Becomes the first Australian captain since Allan Border in 1986-87 to lose the Ashes with the 2-1 result at The Oval.December 26, 2005 – Hits his 26th Test century , 117 against South Africa and joins Sir Garfield Sobers on the all-time list. “It was a special innings for me – I was pretty proud of the way I played today,” Ponting says.December 30, 2005 – Finishes 2005 with a career-best 1544 runs for the calendar year, including 117 in the second Test against South Africa at the MCG.January 2, 2006 – Due to play 100th Test match.

An estimated US$ 8 million Cricket Regional Development Plan and the addition of four new directors to the existing West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) were the new initiatives revealed by Ken Gordon, the WICB president.Among the persons expected to be included among the directors are Clive Lloyd, the former captain, who failed in his bid to become the WICB vice-president last year, billionaire Allen Stanford, Dr Grenville Phillips and Sir Allister McIntyre, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies.According to Gordon, Lloyd has been approached to be the chairman of a “strong” Cricket Committee that will “become the principal advisor to the WICB on all cricketing matters”. The terms of reference of that committee will be to keep all matters related to Caribbean and international cricket under ongoing review and to offer expert opinion for WICB decision-making; to be responsible for advising the WICB on the selection and conditions of employment of the coaching staff and to be the senior coach’s principal point of contact with the board; and to keep the performance of the coaching staff under review and to guide the WICB accordingly. Gordon said Lloyd has indicated positive interest in assuming the chairmanship and is now seeking clearance from his employers in London to take up the job.In addition, that committee is also charged with approving and monitoring the effective implementation of the WICB Development Programme and working closely with the WIN World Cup Committee, the territorial boards, Stanford’s 20/20 initiative and “all other events which impact on West Indies cricket.”Phillips is the other specialist who will head a committee to address the restructuring and financial problems that include a US $20 million deficit and over-sized staff. This committee will be expected to guide the financial recovery and the restructuring of WICB’s finances with particular reference to the outstanding deficit. The committee will also be asked to overlook the financial management and accounts of the WICB and to ensure that performance is in accordance with “the highest standards” and to work with all relevant parties to develop new revenue streams.Stanford and McIntyre will be special advisors to the president. Gordon declared that the WICB had recognised the importance of “injecting additional representation on its board”. “The territorial boards have given approval to proceed with amending the Memorandum and Articles of the WICB to accommodate up to four additional directors,” Gordon said,” That process will commence almost immediately.”Asked whether the expansion of the board of directors might lead to narrower partisan interests being pursued rather than the best interest of West Indies cricket, Gordon responded: “It is not the ideal formula but we have to realise what the realities are. And the realities are that we need to raise money and decrease the deficit. And we had to find a way to get this done and we believed that these people like Stanford and company have that capacity to address these problems.”Gordon added: “They have a proven track record and we have to use whatever expertise we have because if we wait on an ideal answer it may never come or it may come too late.”As for the Regional Cricket Development Plan devised by Bennett King, the West Indies coach, and Tony Howard, the manager, it is envisioned to include 96 players, eight coaches and eight trainers employed round the year and will cost US $8 million over four years.The programme’s aim will be to address the amateur approach to the game; prepare players who are capable of performing successfully at international level; to significantly improve the quality of regional cricket; to provide a meaningful avenue for cricketers to earn while learning; and to provide a group of trained coaches/trainers for the region. “Once we get this going forward together with the retainer contract programme for our first line international players, then we would have begun to seriously address present and future cricket development,”Gordon stated.The plan will first be discussed with King and Howard when they return from the tour of New Zealand before major Caribbean cricket personalities are invited to participate and critique the document. “The objective would be to come up with a document in which there can be a general “buy in” and for which there will be widespread acceptance,” Gordon indicated.