ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low is not fazed by the re­cent move by Guyana Harpy Ea­gles’ play­ers Veerasam­my Per­maul and Kevlon An­der­son to take them to court over ball tam­per­ing charges.

Last month, the duo filed an ap­pli­ca­tion in the High Court of Guyana seek­ing to clear their name af­ter they were hit with Lev­el 2 breach­es of CWI’s Code of Con­duct in their fi­nal round con­test against Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed West In­dies Cham­pi­onship.

They have re­ceived the full back­ing of the Guyana Crick­et Board (GCB), which heav­i­ly crit­i­cised the ac­tions of the um­pires and match ref­er­ee in­volved.

How­ev­er, speak­ing dur­ing an in­ter­view on WESN Tv’s Face of Sports show re­cent­ly, Dr Shal­low said he be­lieved CWI had a strong case.

“From CWI’s per­spec­tive on this par­tic­u­lar mat­ter, we be­lieve it is done and dust­ed, in that the play­ers ad­mit­ted, ac­cept­ed the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty af­ter the charges were laid against them, they signed and we moved on.

“…At this point we are pro­ceed­ing with what is be­fore us in black and white, which is that the play­ers signed and un­til we see some­thing dif­fer­ent, some­thing in writ­ing from the play­ers then we will change our po­si­tion, but for right now we have ac­cept­ed the po­si­tion of the play­ers, which is that they ac­cept­ed the charges and the penal­ties,” Dr Shal­low said.

He ad­mit­ted that even though the GCB had not thrown its full sup­port be­hind him in re­cent times, he did not be­lieve the court ac­tion was per­son­al.

In fact, Dr Shal­low said there was noth­ing wrong with CWI’s process­es be­ing test­ed.

“I’ve spo­ken to the Guyana Crick­et Board and… I don’t think it is any­thing per­son­al, but they are just seek­ing clar­i­ty and test­ing the process­es and the sys­tems of CWI and that is fine I be­lieve.

“What we have to do at CWI is to show that our sys­tems and our process­es are ro­bust enough to with­stand any kind of scruti­ny from the pub­lic or even from the court,” Dr Shal­low said.

“It hap­pens every­where, and we just have to em­brace it, but it gives us an op­por­tu­ni­ty to strength­en our process­es.”

CMC