JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Narine takes another test

by

20150430

T&T and West In­dies off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine is not giv­ing up so eas­i­ly as far as his ca­reer in the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) is con­cerned.The mys­tery spin­ner was told by the Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia that he can­not bowl his stock de­liv­ery, the "off-spin­ner" in any crick­et match or­gan­ised by them.

Nar­ine, on the ad­vise of of­fi­cials at the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers team, de­cid­ed to re-take the test yes­ter­day in Chen­nai at the ICC-ac­cred­it­ed Sri Ra­machan­dra Arthroscopy and Sports Sci­ences Cen­tre.Af­ter a fair amount of his de­liv­er­ies were re­port­ed by the match of­fi­cials dur­ing Knight Rid­ers' away match against Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad on April 22, Nar­ine un­der­went test­ing last week­end.

The tests re­vealed that Nar­ine had a flex in his el­bow while de­liv­er­ing the off­spin de­liv­ery. Con­se­quent­ly, the BC­CI, while al­low­ing Nar­ine to play in the IPL, made it clear that he could not bowl his stock ball. Among oth­er de­liv­er­ies that were test­ed and cleared were his knuck­le ball and straighter de­liv­ery.

A source close to the Ari­ma man told the T&T Guardian: "Sunil did an­oth­er test and he is con­fi­dent that he will get the all clear in a few days time. He felt good bowl­ing the off-spin­ner dur­ing the tests in South In­dia and is look­ing for­ward to get­ting back in­to ac­tion with his full reper­toire of de­liv­er­ies avail­able at his dis­pos­al.

"He has shown tremen­dous strength dur­ing this or­deal and will get past this. He just needs to un­der­stand that there is some­thing called 'mus­cle mem­o­ry' so it is eas­i­er for him to slip back in­to his old ac­tion. He needs to fo­cus deeply on his bowl­ing and with re­peat­ed prac­tice he would be able to adapt nice­ly to the new ac­tion. De­spite what he is go­ing through, his ca­reer is far from over, he is too strong of a char­ac­ter to give is eas­i­ly."

Nar­ine did not play in yes­ter­day's win by the KKR over the pow­er­ful Chen­nai Su­per Kings. In­stead his coun­try­man An­dre Rus­sell scored a half cen­tu­ry to take the KKR to an easy win.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored

Today's
Guardian

Publications

Father Anthony Abraham, centre, alongside Jesus Explosion coordinator Lesley Taylor-Gouveia, left, Kerry Ragoobarsingh and Father Ian Taylor, right, pray over the congregation during Jesus Explosion 23 at the Cheryl F Greaves Auditorium, Bishop Anstey High School East, Trincity, on July 19.

Father Anthony Abraham, centre, alongside Jesus Explosion coordinator Lesley Taylor-Gouveia, left, Kerry Ragoobarsingh and Father Ian Taylor, right, pray over the congregation during Jesus Explosion 23 at the Cheryl F Greaves Auditorium, Bishop Anstey High School East, Trincity, on July 19.

Father Anthony Abraham, centre, alongside Jesus Explosion coordinator Lesley Taylor-Gouveia, left, Kerry Ragoobarsingh and Father Ian Taylor, right, pray over the congregation during Jesus Explosion 23 at the Cheryl F Greaves Auditorium, Bishop Anstey High School East, Trincity, on July 19.

Father Anthony Abraham, centre, alongside Jesus Explosion coordinator Lesley Taylor-Gouveia, left, Kerry Ragoobarsingh and Father Ian Taylor, right, pray over the congregation during Jesus Explosion 23 at the Cheryl F Greaves Auditorium, Bishop Anstey High School East, Trincity, on July 19.

Jesus Explosion 23: Visiting priest feeds RC faithful

Yesterday
Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, right, presents Israel Khan, SC, with the Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League Street Recognition Award while Rajah congratulates him during a ceremony at the St Augustine South Recreation Ground two Sundays ago.

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, right, presents Israel Khan, SC, with the Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League Street Recognition Award while Rajah congratulates him during a ceremony at the St Augustine South Recreation Ground two Sundays ago.

Courtesy Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, right, presents Israel Khan, SC, with the Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League Street Recognition Award while Rajah congratulates him during a ceremony at the St Augustine South Recreation Ground two Sundays ago.

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen, right, presents Israel Khan, SC, with the Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League Street Recognition Award while Rajah congratulates him during a ceremony at the St Augustine South Recreation Ground two Sundays ago.

Courtesy Aneal Rajah Windball Cricket League

Israel Khan honoured by community cricket league

Yesterday
SSCasa chairman Eudaine Garcia meets Guyana President Irfaan Ali

SSCasa chairman Eudaine Garcia meets Guyana President Irfaan Ali

SSCasa chairman Eudaine Garcia meets Guyana President Irfaan Ali

SSCasa chairman Eudaine Garcia meets Guyana President Irfaan Ali

SSCasa steps up Caricom collaboration after summit

2 days ago
Then acting Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Barry Padarath, right, toasts with Argentina Ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani during the Argentine National Day function at the Renassaince Club Room, The Renaissance at Shorelands, on July 9.

Then acting Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Barry Padarath, right, toasts with Argentina Ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani during the Argentine National Day function at the Renassaince Club Room, The Renaissance at Shorelands, on July 9.

ANISTO ALVES

Then acting Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Barry Padarath, right, toasts with Argentina Ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani during the Argentine National Day function at the Renassaince Club Room, The Renaissance at Shorelands, on July 9.

Then acting Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Barry Padarath, right, toasts with Argentina Ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani during the Argentine National Day function at the Renassaince Club Room, The Renaissance at Shorelands, on July 9.

ANISTO ALVES

Argentina wants to export world-famous beef to T&T

2 days ago