‘Tadpole’ eyeing Carib Beer Cup action

TRINIDAD and Tobago and PowerGen spinner Dave “Tadpole” Mohammed has been cleared of a rape charge and is now ready to get back into the stream of top class cricket according to manager Omar Khan.

Khan said, “All charges against Dave Mohammed have been dropped and now he is going to come out strongly in a bid to get into the Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies cricket team.” On Tuesday the court matter was thrown out after being heard in a Grenada High Court. Mohammed’s attorney was John Tyme of the law firm Gordon & Gordon. Last year during the New Zealand-West Indies Test match in Grenada, a charge of rape was brought against Mohammed after a party at one of the hot spots in Grenada.

Khan explained: “We were always very confident that once the matter went before a jury Dave would be cleared. “There was no evidence to implicate him and all the while we knew it was a set-up. It was just a matter of Dave being at the wrong place at the wrong time. “Thankfully he is now over that hurdle and can now concentrate on his cricket. “He has a bright future in Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies cricket and now he can move forward with his life.” Before his misfortune, Mohammed was en-rolled as a student of the Shell Cricket Academy in Grenada and was a member of the Trinidad and Tobago cricket team. Prior to that he was called up for the third Test against South Africa in Barbados in 2001 and also toured Kenya and Bangladesh with the West Indies team. On the domestic circuit Mohammed is a member of  PowerGen and recently won the national double-wicket title together with Samuel Badree.