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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Reifer, Campbell facing possible bans over Super50 debacle

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Sport Desk
225 days ago
20241130

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos Pride cap­tain Ray­mon Reifer and skip­per of the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons John Camp­bell, could be fac­ing lengthy sus­pen­sions for their roles af­ter their teams failed to take the field in the Re­gion­al Su­per50 fi­nal last week­end.

Both Reifer and Camp­bell could pos­si­bly be sus­pend­ed for up to eight months af­ter they failed to be present for the coin toss in last Sat­ur­day’s fi­nal, which had been de­layed due to per­sis­tent show­ers.

As a re­sult, match ref­er­ee Re­on King re­port­ed­ly charged both cap­tains with a Lev­el 3 breach of the CWI Code of Con­duct.

Reifer on­ly took over the cap­tain­cy from Kyle May­ers at the semi­fi­nal stage, af­ter May­ers was giv­en per­mis­sion to par­tic­i­pate in the on­go­ing Abu Dhabi T10 tour­na­ment.

Ear­li­er this week, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) de­clared that both sides had for­feit­ed the match and would not be el­i­gi­ble for ei­ther the US$100,000 first prize or the US$50,000 al­lo­cat­ed for the run­ners-up.

It is the first time since 1972 that the com­pe­ti­tion has end­ed with­out a cham­pi­on be­ing crowned.

Di­rec­tor of Crick­et at CWI, Miles Bas­combe ad­mit­ted that there was an in­fringe­ment of CWI’s Code of Con­duct which Reifer and Camp­bell would have to ad­dress.

“As far as I am aware, the match ref­er­ee has raised charges against both cap­tains, so those would have to be an­swered to.

“The cap­tains will de­cide whether they will ac­cept those charges and the penal­ties pro­posed, or whether they are go­ing to dis­pute those charges,” Bas­combe said.

In the event that Reifer and Camp­bell dis­pute the charges, the mat­ter would be sent to CWI’s Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee.

It has been re­port­ed that the pro­posed dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion could see the cap­tains be­ing banned for up to eight months.

While it has been re­port­ed that the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA) is con­tem­plat­ing tak­ing le­gal ac­tion against CWI, the Ja­maica Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (JCA) is seem­ing­ly in sup­port of the um­pires who made the de­ci­sion to re­sume play.

Its pres­i­dent, Dr Dono­van Ben­nett said the cap­tains ought to have fol­lowed the in­struc­tions of the um­pires.

“At the end of the day it’s the um­pires who have the right to de­cide whether the con­di­tions are fit for play or not,” Ben­nett said.

“So I would have pre­ferred if the two teams had act­ed in a way ac­knowl­edg­ing the su­prema­cy of the um­pires in this mat­ter. Yes, I know there were prob­lems with the con­di­tions, I know that there were prob­lems with the time giv­en for warmups to take place.

“And it’s not just warmup be­cause some of the play­ers were car­ry­ing in­juries and would have to be taped, so I know that the play­ers thought that there was not suf­fi­cient time to prop­er­ly warmup and to be prop­er­ly taped.

“But hav­ing said all of that, the um­pires are the ones who have the pow­er and the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to make the as­sess­ment and to de­cide whether play is pos­si­ble or not,” the JCA boss added.

Ben­nett said he would have pre­ferred if the play­ers had tak­en to the field and then filed a re­port out­lin­ing their con­cerns af­ter the match had con­clud­ed.

CMC


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