Vin­ode Mam­chan

Chair­man of the West In­dies se­lec­tion pan­el Clive Lloyd says that the West In­dies is miss­ing mys­tery spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine at the cur­rent World Cup be­ing played in Aus­tralia and New Zealand.

The T&T play­er was se­lect­ed for the tour­na­ment but de­cid­ed against tour­ing, say­ing that he was not com­fort­able with his bowl­ing ac­tion just yet. Nar­ine was called for an il­le­gal bowl­ing ac­tion dur­ing the 2014 Cham­pi­ons League T20 tour­na­ment in In­dia and had to re­mod­el his ac­tion. He did and was very suc­cess­ful in the Nagi­co Su­per50, where he bowled the Red Force to the ti­tle.

Lloyd speak­ing in Perth said: "Sunil (Nar­ine) is one of the best one day bowlers in the world and with him not here he is sore­ly missed. Look at the scores we have been post­ing, 300 runs pret­ty con­sis­tent­ly. If he was here, peo­ple won't be able to chase that down. We miss him, we miss his wick­et-tak­ing abil­i­ty, his econ­o­my rate and the fact that he is a game chang­er. All of these are rea­sons why we miss Sunil but he is not here, so we have to do with­out him."

Lloyd added that he thinks Nar­ine's prob­lems with his bowl­ing ac­tion are over.

It's ob­vi­ous they (of­fi­cials) thought he was throw­ing but he has rec­ti­fied that. He played for Trinidad & To­ba­go and did quite well. His ac­tion has been passed, so I don't see the is­sue any­more."

Lloyd who was the most suc­cess­ful West In­dies cap­tain ever is hop­ing to have Nar­ine back in ma­roon quick­ly, al­though he has not been able to com­mu­ni­cate with his agents :"I tried to get through to his agent and was un­suc­cess­ful but he has promised me that he wants to play Test crick­et and one-day­ers for the West In­dies, so I am hop­ing he will make him­self avail­able for the Eng­land Se­ries...I hope!"

Since the Nagi­co Su­per50 se­ries, Nar­ine has not even ap­peared for the Red Force in the WICB Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League (PCL) that is cur­rent­ly on in the Caribbean. He has been play­ing for Queen's Park in the do­mes­tic crick­et league in T&T and has been do­ing well.

West In­dies hosts Eng­land and Aus­tralia in that or­der in Test match­es this com­ing sea­son in the re­gion and Nar­ine is more than like­ly go­ing to miss the Eng­land se­ries, to ful­fil his In­di­an Pre­mier League oblig­a­tions. The IPL starts April 8 and ends on May 24, and the Test se­ries against Eng­land in the Caribbean starts on April 13 and ends on May 5.