By Tony Cozier At the ICC World Cup In DELHI
Apparent concern over what might await him should be return to India has reportedly caused Marlon Samuels to decline selection for the current World Cup as replacement for the injured Dwayne Bravo.
Although known within the team here and among those within the game in the Caribbean, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has made no statement on the matter apart from announcing Guyana leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo as Bravo’s substitute.
Contacted yesterday, WICB corporate communications officer Imran Khan would neither confirm or deny the report.
“All I can state what is already known, that Davendra Bishoo has been chosen as Dwayne Bravo’s replacement,” he said.
The 30-year-old Jamaican was banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for two years in May 2006 for passing information on to an Indian bookmaker.
The evidence was supplied by the Delhi police through taped telephone conversations during a West Indies ODI series in Indian in 2007.
The ICC charge against him was that he “directly