PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s cricket authorities have assured that their national players involved in the abandoned tour of India will not face censure and will be considered for selection in the upcoming regional first class season.
Azim Bassarath, president of the T&T Cricket Board, confirmed to the Trinidad Express newspaper that his board would not get involved in the selection process and would leave the matter of who represented the country up to the selectors.
“The selectors will decide who will play for Trinidad and Tobago. Nobody is going to interfere with the selection process,” Bassarath explained.
“The policy of the board is not to direct selectors in terms of who they should select and so on. That has never been done in the past and I am guaranteeing that it will never happen under my stewardship. They selectors can select them if they see fit.”
Two key Trinidad and Tobago players were among the 15-man Windies squad that quit the India tour over a contracts row with the West Indies Players Association. All-rounder Dwayne Bravo, the one-day captain emerged as the players’ spokesman while Test captain Denesh Ramdin was also part of the unit.
