Vin­ode Mam­chan

Trinidad and To­ba­go and West In­dies all­rounder Dwayne Bra­vo says he was not in­jured when his car was in­volved in an ac­ci­dent on the Uri­ah But­ler High­way on Wednes­day. A news­pa­per re­port yes­ter­day said Bra­vo, 29, re­ceived in­juries to both hands and had to be treat­ed at a health fa­cil­i­ty. The re­port said his white Jaguar sports car col­lid­ed with a Suzu­ki SUV which then crashed in­to a Nis­san Almera. No one was in­jured in the oth­er two cars and Bra­vo's front-seat pas- TRUM­PET DRILL sen­ger al­so es­caped un­hurt, po­lice said. The re­port said Bra­vo suf­fered soft-tis­sue dam­age to both hands.

How­ev­er, speak­ing in an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, he said: "I don't know where the re­porters got their in­for­ma­tion from. There is ab­solute­ly noth­ing wrong with my hands and I am fine. Yes, I got in an ac­ci­dent but there is noth­ing wrong with me phys­i­cal­ly. "When those re­ports went out, it just sent peo­ple in­to a fren­zy and caused a lot of pan­ic. That was re­al­ly un­nec­es­sary and I am fine." The na­tion­al crick­et team will play its sixth T20 tri­al match to­mor­row but Bra­vo will not be in­volved in the game.

Man­ag­er of the team, Omar Khan, said: "Bra­vo has not tak­en part in any of the tri­al games so far be­cause he is await­ing fi­nal word on whether he is avail­able to play for Trinidad and To­ba­go in the up­com­ing Cham­pi­ons League." The ac­ci­dent hap­pened near the site where West In­dies crick­eter, Runako Mor­ton, was killed ear­li­er this year when his car crashed in­to a util­i­ty pole.