Mohammed banned from interviewing WI players

Well-known cricket commentator Fazeer Mohammed has been banned from interviewing any West Indies player currently in Australia taking part in the Sir Frank Worrell cricket series.

Mohammed made the trek from Trinidad to Australia to work as a radio commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has been commentating since the first Test in Hobart. He told Guardian Media yesterday that he was banned after he made comments about the team on a radio talk show prior to the start of the second Test that is currently on in Melbourne.

According to Mohammed: “I got banned from interviewing anyone in the squad.” He added that coach Phil Simmons did not take lightly to criticisms of the team’s training heading into the Test match.

“Simmons apparently didn’t like what I said about the team’s training ahead of this Test. I made the comments on Andrew Mason’s show last Tuesday. Someone obviously told him what I said and he didn’t like it.” Asked if he was contacted by Simmons, Mohammed said, “No, he hasn’t spoken to me.”