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.”

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SHEIK

Typical West Indies high-handedness!

Muzzle all criticism and let some propagandist & lackey invoke the name of Frank Worrell & parrot the Board's position and all will be well with West Indies cricket!

So the ultimate panacea to right all that that is wrong with West Indies cricket is to marginalize Holding, Cozier and all others who refuse to uncritically sing from the WICBC hymnal.

Control is all that matters with these jokers and a cosmetic change of the Board's name will not change that fact

In reply to jacksprat

Faz does not offer any evidence

He says he is banned
Simmo hasn't spoken to him
Simmo apparently didn't like his comments
Someone told Simmo of the radio show

Typical attention seeking fazeer

In reply to Halliwell
Maybe so.

But we do have the precedence of Cozier, Holding et al to go by so I know the WICBC is bent on control and silencing independent opinion.

In reply to jacksprat

I may not like Faz but to ban him is plain mean spirited and just plain stupid.

Why not ban all the foreign comms who have being saying how poor we are.

Relax Guys

THE SO CALLED BAN WAS RESCINDED.

AS I SAID EARLIER TO WESTDAM, IT WAS MORE OF A HOLD OFF THAN A BAN.

OFFICIALLY TODAY FAZ AND PHIL CLARIFIED THINGS AND ALL'S WELL THAN END'S WELL.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

This is just childish and immature. Richie needs to tek de criticism on the chin and keep on trucking. Why is he crying like a baby and pulling up stumps? Richie needs to man up!

In reply to Emir

BTW, though Richie can ban players from talking to a journalist, he can't ban a journalist from talking to a player (outside of limiting access to the dressing room etc). He has NO control over the journalists.