Vin­ode Mam­chan

The third and fi­nal Test of the three-match se­ries against New Zealand, card­ed for Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana, is now in jeop­ardy af­ter the Guyana Board was deemed il­le­gal and it's ex­ec­u­tive de­barred from car­ry­ing out crick­et ac­tiv­i­ties by a lo­cal judge.

Madam Jus­tice San­dra Kurtzious ruled that the ex­ec­u­tive mem­bers of the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie, Anand Kalladeen, Dru Ba­hadur, Fizul Bac­chus, Al­fred Men­tore, Viren­dra Chin­ta­manie, Ra­jesh Singh, Ra­jen­dra Singh, Col­in Eu­rope, Andy Ram­nar­ine, Lal­ta Digam­ber, Ramdeo Ku­mar, Ray­on Grif­fith, Naz­imul Drepaul and Sav­it­ri Per­saud, be re­strained from con­duct­ing any af­fairs of the GCB.

She al­so re­strained those de­fen­dants in­volved in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of West In­dies crick­et, in this case Senasie and Kalladeen from car­ry­ing out any du­ties at the WICB.

The GCB was tak­en to court by Kei­th Fos­ter, Anil Be­har­ry, Hu­bern Evans, Ju­lian Cam­bridge, An­gela Han­iff, Ray­mond Han­iff, Ro­mash Munna and Shabeer Baksh, who cit­ed that they were elect­ed to the GCB, il­le­gal­ly be­cause of a flawed con­sti­tu­tion. They said that the elec­tions held last year were un­con­sti­tu­tion­al and hence the GCB could not car­ry out the day to day func­tions of the Board.

The third Test of the se­ries is card­ed to take place from June 26 to 30 and with no board to run crick­et in Guyana, the ques­tion aris­es as to who will take charge of the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of host­ing the game.

Se­nior of­fi­cials in Guyana be­lieve the match will be moved to ei­ther Bar­ba­dos or Do­mini­ca with a strong pos­si­bil­i­ty that the game will move to Do­mini­ca be­cause the two T20s that fol­low the third Test will al­so be played in Do­mini­ca.

There is al­so the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the WICB con­tract­ing a pri­vate firm to as­sist in host­ing the games be­cause of the fact that the Guyanese pub­lic have been starved for Test crick­et.

The WICB will meet ear­ly this week to come up with a de­ci­sion as to what will be done be­cause tick­ets sales are to be­gin soon and prepa­ra­tions for the match will have to get un­der­way in case it is moved to ei­ther Bar­ba­dos or Do­mini­ca.

The open­ing Test will be played in Ja­maica from June 8 to 12. This game will mark Chris Gayle's 100th Test match, as well as De­nesh Ramdin's de­but as Test cap­tain.

The sec­ond Test will fol­low in Trinidad from June 16 to 20.