Samuels not qualified to represent Jamaica - JCA

Mon, Nov 10, '14

The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) says senior West Indies middle-order batsman Marlon Samuels does not qualify to represent the Jamaica Franchise in the new-look West Indies Four-Day Tournament this season.

This is as a result of allegedly violating a JCA selection policy criterion.

Samuels, who was left out of a Jamaica provisional 13-man squad which was named last Thursday for the team's first game against Windward Islands Volcanoes, beginning on Friday at Sabina Park, is to have violated section 1.1 of the JCA's selection policy criteria.

"He (Samuels) is not qualified to represent Jamaica in the upcoming regional first-class tournament," JCA Chief Executive Officer Courtney Francis told The Gleaner.