Vin­ode Mam­chan

Dap­per T&T and West In­dies mid­dle or­der bats­man Dar­ren Bra­vo has re­spond­ed to his omis­sion from the Red Force crick­et team for the first set of match­es in the West In­dies Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League card­ed to get un­der­way against Bar­ba­dos Pride on Fri­day at the Queen's Park Oval.

The TTCB re­vealed the names of the play­ers for the open­ing two match­es of the se­ries and Bra­vo was not in­clud­ed.

Chief se­lec­tor Alec Burns said the board had arranged a meet­ing with Bra­vo for which he did not show and he failed to con­tact the board or the se­lec­tors. Burns said that the se­lec­tors had no choice but to omit Bra­vo be­cause the se­lec­tors did not know if he was avail­able.

Bra­vo said yes­ter­day he sent a let­ter to the board in­di­cat­ing he want­ed time off to deal with some per­son­al is­sues. "I al­so in­di­cat­ed that I will be avail­able af­ter the third match and once se­lect­ed I will be go­ing all out to rep­re­sent my coun­try to the best of my abil­i­ty."

Bra­vo was one of the West In­dies play­ers who abort­ed the tour of In­dia re­cent­ly and af­ter his non-in­clu­sion on the Red Force team, ques­tions were asked as to whether he was be­ing vic­timised.

Bra­vo will miss games against Bar­ba­dos Pride, the Lee­ward Is­lands and Ja­maica.