MOST of those involved seemed to endorse the decision as the four-day Jamaica Franchise cricket trial match was called off after only four balls were bowled on yesterday's second day at Sabina Park.

The umpires deemed the pitch unfit for play, and after consulting the coaching staff, the players were asked to leave the field.

A few batsmen suffered knocks due to the uneven bounce on Tuesday, but the grass-covered pitch appeared even more treacherous yesterday morning.

The fourth ball of fast bowler Jason Dawes' first over bounced sharply from a full length and nearly decapitated batsman Kemar Marshall as he leaned forward to play. At that point the umpires decided they had seen enough.

Head Coach Junior Bennett said he and the rest of the staff had to put the players' health above all else.

"Yes, the match has been called off because the umpires deemed it unfit for play. It's extremely disappointing... [but] we had to look out for the health of the players," he told reporters.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Oh Boy.....Here we go again. One would think that this couldn't happen again 17 years later. A sad reflection of Windies cricket today..piss poor administrators, piss poor curators, piss poor players

Dem rass prepare de pitch fuh Sarwan but Sars smart dem and nah show up!!!

In reply to Priapus... well chances are with the first 2 being piss poor the third is a given.

so now we know why SAR1 did not report for duty

In reply to WI_cricfan

An people call sars stupidee.

Seriously, this is disgraceful. First ball Patto would have decapitated someone on this pitch.

In reply to WestDem

hahahahahaha!!

Sars laughing at home while signing another business deal!

smh ah boy!

Did they use the same pitch as the one for the previous matches? In the first match I think it was one team scored over 300 runs and Palmer scored a century so what happened? The second match so no issues but this one. Did they really use the same pitch for ALL these matches? That could explain the issue. I don't get what happened here.

Maybe Bina coming back to the life it once had

After India had declared hurt years ago and England didnt want to be humiliated the sane way 17 years ago so dem protest to the umps everyone blaming a hostile Bina pitch dat bringing back grass

After each a dem incidents didnt the pitch play 'normal' next day or 2?