Pres­i­dent of the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et Coun­cil and for­mer ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), William Wal­lace has hit back at claims made by cur­rent Na­tion­al Crick­et Acad­e­my fa­cil­i­ta­tor Ku­mar Ram­path, that the Acad­e­my was closed down by the Deryck Mur­ray-led crick­et ad­min­is­tra­tion. Ram­path was quot­ed re­cent­ly as say­ing: "I was in­volved in the first pro­gramme a cou­ple of years ago and I thought that it was a fan­tas­tic idea. The last ad­min­is­tra­tion stopped the pro­gramme and I thought this was ab­surd."

How­ev­er, Wal­lace coun­ter­act­ed by say­ing: "The Mur­ray ad­min­is­tra­tion nev­er stopped the acad­e­my, in fact when we took over the crick­et af­ter one year in of­fice we re-start­ed and when I came in­to the board in 2006, I was put in charge of the acad­e­my. "In fact when one checks it out, the acad­e­my was stopped in 2004, which was the last year that the El­lis Lewis ad­min­is­tra­tion was in pow­er. I just want to put these facts out there so that the peo­ple would know the truth."