Vin­ode Mam­chan

Sunil Nar­ine pack your bags and come home boy! You would do the world a favour, as they would not have to put up with look­ing on, as the Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia (BC­CI) con­tin­ues to show its ug­ly head.

Al­so, be­fore you come home and don your ma­roon cap where you will be wel­comed against the Aus­tralians who tour here soon, please tell the In­di­an play­ers what you do with the ball, so that they can face bowlers like your type and al­so some of the poor qual­i­ty In­di­an spin­ners can learn a trick or two. Tell Shah Rukh Khan thanks for all the faith and sup­port and make sure to let him know that his re­la­tions with the BC­CI was one of the rea­sons you were tar­get­ed. And be­fore I for­get send one of your play­ing shirts to N Srini­vasan so at least he can have some­thing that be­longed to a great play­er.

If Nar­ine re­fus­es to come home then the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) needs to step in to save the ca­reer of one of their best bowlers cur­rent­ly on the scene.

If Dave Cameron and his boys don't act then the BC­CI will sure­ly end his ca­reer. The mys­tery man has out­foxed near­ly every­one in In­dia and how does the BC­CI re­act – play on his mind, tell him that as an off-spin­ner he can­not bowl the off-break.

This is very puz­zling in­deed be­cause he is al­lowed to bowl the arm ball and the doos­ra which are dif­fi­cult balls to bowl. His stock ball which is the one he bowls the eas­i­est with the least ef­fort, is now be­ing tak­en out of his reper­toire. So, ef­fec­tive­ly, what hap­pens is that the In­di­an bats­men in the IPL can now fo­cus on learn­ing how to play his arm ball and doos­ra.

If he is cho­sen by the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers to play in any of the match­es, the bats­men can go af­ter him with the full knowl­edge none of his de­liv­er­ies will be turn­ing in. God help him, if one of his of­fer­ings hits a crack and turns in. The um­pires would then no-ball him and he would be banned from crick­et match­es un­der the aus­pices of the BC­CI.

The very first time Nar­ine was called by the BC­CI for an il­le­gal ac­tion was at the Cham­pi­ons League last year. I men­tioned at the time that this was very odd, as the West In­dies had an im­pend­ing tour of In­dia on the cards and prob­a­bly the In­di­ans would be afraid of fac­ing him and go­ing to Aus­tralia for the World Cup un­der a de­feat from the low­ly West In­dies. Some peo­ple thought that I had fi­nal­ly lost it, but I re­spond­ed by say­ing that the ODI se­ries at least would be very com­pet­i­tive.

Nar­ine with the prob­lems of be­ing called twice dur­ing the Cham­pi­ons League on his mind, de­cid­ed to stay away from the ill-fat­ed tour of In­dia. The West In­dies were more than com­pet­i­tive in the short­ened se­ries. They ac­tu­al­ly won the open­ing game at Kochi with­out Nar­ine and a ma­jor col­lapse at the end of their run chase in the sec­ond game at Del­hi gave In­dia a nar­row in.

With the third game at Visakha­p­at­nam aban­doned due to cy­clone Hud­hud, the se­ries was then cut to four match­es. West In­dies lost the third and what would be the fi­nal game eas­i­ly in the moun­tains of Dharam­sala and de­cid­ed against play­ing the last game in Cal­cut­ta over a pay­ment struc­ture dis­pute with the WICB and the West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA). They lost the se­ries 1-2 but with Nar­ine on board they could have won that se­ries, so there was jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the In­di­ans to keep him out.

Now there are a num­ber of spin­ners in In­dia with ques­tion­able ac­tions and what the BC­CI needs to tell the world, is why they are not un­der the radar. Harb­ha­jan Singh and Ravichan­dran Ash­win both have ques­tion­able ac­tions in my opin­ions but they are al­lowed to ply their trade with­out fear.

I am not for once say­ing that "chuck­ing" is good for the game or should be tol­er­at­ed. What I am ques­tion­ing is why Sunil Nar­ine is be­ing tar­get­ed when there are prob­lems with so many oth­er peo­ple.

The WICB needs to get all his test re­sults and take it to the ICC and have con­sul­ta­tion with them. They must ask the ques­tion why is the BC­CI al­lowed to do as they please. Why was Nar­ine's Lough­bor­ough's test ig­nored?

We in the Caribbean and world crick­et need to stop this rag­ing mon­ster called the BC­CI. It has be­come a case of who pays the piper calls the tune. Every­one knows that the BC­CI has been wield­ing a heavy arm when it comes to many of the is­sues in world crick­et but they are al­so of the knowl­edge that they con­tribute around 80 per cent of the rev­enue that comes to the ICC.

These peo­ple will de­stroy many along the way, but In­di­ans like to be­lieve in Kar­ma and they should un­der­stand that "God don't sleep" and when you do wrong, sit and wait, Kar­ma is com­ing to get you.