da esport bet： Conflicting reports have surfaced over Antonio Mayers’ availability torepresent the Barbados cricket team
da apostaganha： Haydn Gill21-Sep-2001Conflicting reports have surfaced over Antonio Mayers’ availability torepresent the Barbados cricket team.A few days after returning from a professional contract in England,the 21-year-old all-rounder slammed a century for Cable & Wireless BETin the Courts/Suzuki Division 1 championship, which he said was toshow the national selectors that he meant business.It was a comment made against the background of successive selectionpanels not picking him among 44 players involved in a national yearround programme being used to prepare the Barbados team for regionalcompetitions.As far as we had understood, he (Mayers) had told the previousselection committee that he was not interested in playing for Barbadosany longer, new chairman of selectors Richard Edwards said.This is what we understand. We don’t know this for a fact.Mayers, however, said there was no truth to such a statement: I didnot say that. I am more than surprised to hear those comments. I stillhave an interest in playing for Barbados, he said.After scoring 115 for Cable & Wireless BET against United Carlton lastSunday, Mayers said he would have appreciated it if the selectors hadgiven him a look-in for either of the three Red Stripe Bowl trials,the last of which was played yesterday.Edwards, however, added that the selection panel was also unaware thatMayers was in the island.We didn’t even know that he had come back. The first time we knew thathe was in the island is when we saw that he came and made a hundredand apparently it was a good hundred at that, Edwards said.At the end of the day, it is the responsibility of the player when hecomes into the country, if he’s not fit or whatever, that he must letthe selectors know what is happening.Edwards said yesterday evening Mayers had since contacted him toinform him of his availability.Mayers, who represented Barbados in the Red Stripe Bowl from 1998 to2000, enjoyed a successful season for Hartherly in the West of EnglandLeagues where he made 648 (ave. 55) including three centuries and took35 wickets with his medium-pace.
