The Jamaica Observer has learnt that the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel has set a hearing for March 23 at an undisclosed location for Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Andre Russell to answer charges of a whereabouts rule violation.
However, it is unlikely that Russell, who has not been provisionally suspended, will attend that initial hearing as he is slated to represent the West Indies in the March 8-April 3 ICC World Twenty20 in India.
The West Indies are slated to oppose England on March 16 at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai; then face Sri Lanka at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, on March 20; before facing South Africa five days later at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur. They close out their Super 10 Group One schedule two days later against a qualifying team at the same venue.
The national cricket selectors headed by Jaguars Assistant Coach and Manager Rayon Griffith yesterday announced Guyana’s 13-man squad for the ninth round PCL four day First-Class game against Leewards Hurricanes in Antigua starting Friday.
Two changes were made from the squad which defeated the Windwards Volcanoes in St Lucia in the last round. Shiv Chanderpaul, who retired from International cricket and Chris Barnwell, return to the team after recovering from injuries. Chanderpaul sustained a finger injury in the Masters t20 in Dubai while Barnwell suffered his injury during the recent Regional Super50 tournament.
Both players showed no effects of their injuries during their last first division games in which Barnwell scored a double century for DCC and Chanderpaul made a ‘big’ hundred for Everest. The pair replaces Test player Assad Fudadin and Robin Bacchus, who did not play in Barbados or St Lucia.
The National League Representatives (NLR) have given the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TT CB) Executive a deadline to respond to a request for a meeting to discuss the handling of an investigation into an alleged email mocking national and West Indies spinner Sunil Narine.
In a letter issued yesterday to Arjoon Ramlal, secretary of the TT CB, the NLR noted that should the TT CB snub a request for a meeting tomorrow at 10 am to jointly appoint an Independent Committee to investigate, it “will force the NLR to advise Mr Narine of his rights and without any further delay seek all legal recourse and options available to him.” The press release yesterday chided the TT CB for not acknowledging an initial request for a meeting by “legally constituted National League Clubs Representatives who are legitimate members of the TT CB.” The NLR added: “This issue is a matter of public interest both nationally and internationally...
KOLKATA, India – Evin Lewis has been named as the replacement for Lendl Simmons in the West Indies squad for the International Cricket Council’s World Twenty20 Tournament.
The 24-year-old left-handed batsman will join the team ahead of the start of the global event.
He is yet to play at the international level. He has represented Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean T20 and the Champions League.
He also played for Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel and St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the Caribbean Premier League.
Chairman of Selectors, Clive Lloyd noted: “Evin Lewis a young and exciting batsman who we believe he will fit into the team set-up very well. He has the ability to perform at this level of the game.”
Lloyd added: "His selection is in keeping with our policy to give exposure to young, talented players we believe will help to carry West Indies cricket forward.”
The Windies arrived in Kolkata on Monday after a two-week camp in the United Arab Emirates where they won all four warm-up matches.
They will have official warm-up matches against India on Thursday, March 10 and against Australia on Sunday, March 13.
West Indies have been drawn in Group 1 of the Super 10 stage where they will play alongside England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and one of the qualifiers from the first round.
The triumph of the West Indies Under-19 side at the World Cup recently was rightly praised. It was pleasing to see the young side come through unscathed on the world stage, and there were some quality cricketers in the team. For all the well-deserved praise of the young side, however, it is ridiculous that the victory is being used by some at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to portray the image that everything is fine in the Caribbean. The same claim was being made when the senior team won the Twenty20 (T20) World Cup in 2012, but where has our cricket gone since then?
But I suppose that is to be expected. When the whole world is saying something is wrong, the WICB will grab at any passing straw.
I suppose they are looking for reasons to justify Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron, the WICB president, announcing the rejection of the proposals of the Caricom committee, which included the dissolution of the Board among other things. I’m not too sure exactly what the implications are. But it seems as though any report that is published, whether it’s commissioned by the WICB or otherwise, they just ignore it. And if at all they are doing anything, it is implementing those that don’t change the status quo. The Caricom prime ministers are a powerful group of people from the Caribbean with a lot of influence, but every time they say something or try to influence anything, the WICB just ignores it. They keep on saying they’re a private entity, that they are registered outside of the cricket-playing Caribbean, and that their company is responsible only to their directors and shareholders.
