No chance for Deryck Murray and team

DERYCK MURRAY and his team will be roundly beaten at tomorrow’s Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board annual general meeting. This is my bold prediction of the outcome of that meerting at which a new president will be chosen. The Alloy Lequay faction will be victorious by a 30-12 majority, I would even concede 28-14 or 29-13, since the number of voters will be 42, with one member, Justice Anthony Lucky, away in the Hague. Murray certainly has an excellent curriculum vitae as far as cricket is concerned but to succeed as president of the board is another cup of tea. The former West Indies wicketkeeper, threw his hat in the ring some weeks ago after having served as Director of Cricket Development at the Sir Frank Worrell Cricket Development Centre, Balmain, Couva, for one year.

And he  is of the view that this short stint could get him elected to control the TTCB, having, perhaps, a first hand working knowledge of how Lequay managed his administrative affairs, as both president and CEO. Lequay, whose involvement in sports started way back in 1944 as secretary of Oxford Club, San Fernando, and who fought a one-man battle to wrest the control of local cricket from Queen’s Park Criket Club, holds to the view the TTCB elections is not a media battle, as some journalists believe. At tomorrow’s AGM, Lequay will be supporting his  1st vice-president Ellis Lewis to take over as president. The prediction is that  Lewis will be voted in as president with Dudnath Ramkissoon as 1st vice-president; Baldath Mahabir 2nd vice-president; Anand Daniel secretary, and Richard de Souza treasurer, and nothing will stop them.