Vin­ode Mam­chan

Em­bat­tled West In­dies off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine is call­ing for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged email pur­port­ed­ly sent by pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Az­im Bas­sarath.

In a re­lease sent yes­ter­day by for­mer West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) pres­i­dent Di­nanath Ram­nar­ine on be­half of Nar­ine, the KKR bowler stat­ed: "I want to make it known that as a re­sult of the pub­lic­i­ty sur­round­ing the al­leged emails be­tween Mr Az­im Bas­sarath and oth­er Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) mem­bers re­gard­ing my­self, I have lodged a com­plaint with the Na­tion­al League Rep­re­sen­ta­tives (NLR) and have re­quest­ed an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

"Whilst I have be­come frus­trat­ed of late and it re­mains hard­er and hard­er to keep faith, trust and con­fi­dence, when I see emails be­tween Board mem­bers on valid and well-known ad­dress­es to me and when the al­leged au­thors of these emails de­ny they sent them I feel I de­serve an ex­pla­na­tion as to how they came in to ex­is­tence. Who sent them? I al­so feel that if in­deed the emails were sent by the al­leged au­thors then the ram­i­fi­ca­tions for the TTCB as a cred­i­ble or­ga­ni­za­tion are sig­nif­i­cant. Hence, why I have called for an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion."

He then at­tached in­for­ma­tion that in his es­ti­ma­tion can prove help­ful to the NLR in in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mat­ter. Mem­bers of the NLR are Di­nanath Ram­nar­ine, Daren Gan­ga, Clint Pam­phile, Giles An­toine, An­dre Lawrence and Anil Ka­mal.

It is al­leged that Bas­sarath sent out an email stat­ing "Let him start to Bowl !!!!!! He was not turn­ing much in d first place!!!!! Straight ball and faster one all the time. !!!! PELT­ING!!!!!!!"

Nar­ine end­ed by stat­ing: "I look for­ward to pos­i­tive and de­ci­sive ac­tion on these mat­ters that I have raised and by stat­ing every­thing here I now leave it to be han­dled by the Na­tion­al League Rep­re­sen­ta­tives and wish to say no more pub­licly."