Murray unaware of any tyre slashing at Oval

On Monday, the TT CB issued a press release titled “Cricket Uncertainty” which made the claim about the Oval incident and also stated “the car of a senior cricket official has been shot at while parked at his home”. The TT CB added that there have been attempts to hack three cricket administrators’ email accounts.

On Monday, Newsday attempted to verify the authenticity of the reports and contacted TT CB CEO Suruj Ragoonath to elaborate. The CEO, however, directed all questions to TT CB president Azim Bassarath who at the East Zonal awards, revealed the incidents to the audience and questioned whether they were coincidental or part of a “larger, sinister scenario” . Calls to Bassarath’s mobile phone went unanswered on Monday while up to press time yesterday he did not reply to an email asking whether the alleged incidents were reported to the police.

Speaking with Newsday yesterday, though, Murray said he had no knowledge of any such incident taking place at the Oval.

Murray stressed though that he is making enquiries to the TT CB to get more information about the allegation and to also determine whether it was reported to the police.

The former West Indies wicketkeeper said he was at the Oval for a day/night practice match involving the national team and Queen’s Park last week and spoke to a few TT CB officials socially after the game but they did not relay any information about any untoward incident occurring at the famous cricket venue.

Murray also said he has no knowledge of the cricket official whose car was allegedly shot at, neither where the official lives nor any information whatsoever on that incident.