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West Indies: Lequay calls for full report

The Trinidad Express
28 October 1998



The West Indies Cricket Board has asked the Jamaica Cricket Association for a full report on the circumstances that led to the overturning a decision to award Trinidad and Tobago victory over the Leeward Islands in last weekend's Red Stripe Bowl semi-final at the Kaiser Sports Club ground in Jamaica.

T&T were initially declared winners of the contest on a faster scoring rate. However, that decision by match referee Hugh Perry was cast aside at an emergency meeting of a committee headed by JCA president Jackie Hendriks the following day.

The meeting followed an official protest for the Leewards who argued successfully that Perry had applied the wrong formula to arrive at his decision.

T&T have since protested the overturning of Perry's decision and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board last week wrote to the West Indies board expressing its concern over both the handling of the matter and the lack of acknowledgement by the authorities of the letter of protest submitted by the national team through their attorney, Jamaican QC Howard Hamilton. However, the WICB have since informed the TTCB that they are waiting on the JCA to submit a report on the matter before it issues a response.


Source: The Express (Trinidad)
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