An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons coach Paul Nixon has ac­cused Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) of be­ing "dis­re­spect­ful" and "un­pro­fes­sion­al".

His ire came as a re­sult of all­rounder Justin Greaves' un­avail­abil­i­ty through in­jury. Greaves has not played in any of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match­es to date and has not played any crick­et since the West In­dies se­ries win against Pak­istan at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, a lit­tle over two weeks ago.

Nixon spoke to re­porters af­ter his team went un­der to the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers for the first time on Wednes­day night at the BLCA, where he vent­ed about not know­ing the cor­rect ex­tent of the Bar­ba­di­an’s in­jury.

"I'm very dis­ap­point­ed that we've had no com­mu­ni­ca­tion with CWI in their back­room de­part­ment for Greaves to come in to us a bit in­jured, more than a bit in­jured. So, that was dis­ap­point­ing. And just be­fore the game, we found out these things.

"So, for me, that was a bit un­pro­fes­sion­al and dis­re­spect­ful, in a way. But we moved for­ward," said Nixon.

“He's had an in­jec­tion. That hasn't worked. I've been a bit dis­ap­point­ed by how he's come back from West In­dies (in­ter­na­tion­al) crick­et, if I'm be­ing bru­tal­ly hon­est.”

Nixon point­ed to the lack of com­mu­ni­ca­tion com­ing from CWI about the crick­eter’s in­jury.

“The com­mu­ni­ca­tion was poor around that,” Nixon said. “So, that's one of our in­ter­na­tion­al rounders out, which is tough. But we prob­a­bly haven't post­ed the runs we'd have liked to have done to­day.”

For­mer T&T Red Force head coach David Fur­longe dis­agreed with the Eng­lish coach. He did not put the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty on the re­gion­al body to in­form the fran­chise of the crick­eter’s avail­abil­i­ty.

“It’s up to the play­er,” Fur­longe said. “If I am in­jured, I will let my fran­chise know ‘I am in­jured, I can’t play’, or let my agent say.”

The Queen’s Park Crick­et Club coach added that most play­ers have agents who or­gan­ise the day-to-day busi­ness for the play­ers, in­clud­ing in­form­ing teams of their avail­abil­i­ties.

“These agents will or­gan­ise sign­ing he con­tracts and all that. Then the agent will prob­a­bly come back and say he (the play­er) is in­jured,” said Fur­longe, who added that the crit­i­cism of the Fal­cons' coach is un­found­ed.

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