January 30, 2013 at 5:54 p.m.
Rangers Twenty20 ban unfair says Tucker
Rangers Twenty20 ban unfair says Tucker
This from Southampton Rangers Janeiro Tucker who said three other teams missed matches last season and didn't get the same punishment.
The Bermuda Cricket Board denied an appeal by Southampton Rangers to reinstate them to the Twenty20 League. Rangers received the ban after they failed to show up to the Lindo's Twenty20 third place playoff against Bailey's Bay.
A statement from the BCB said: "SRSC did appeal the decision. However, as insufficient grounds of appeal were given the decision to ban SRSC was upheld by the BCB Executive this week."
Rangers will not be allowed to play any of the shorter games next year, effectively ending their season around Cup Match.
Tucker said: "That's their final decision and there's not much we can do about it. We didn't show up for our final match but there were other teams out there that didn't show up for Twenty20 matches as well.
"For our team not to show up was wrong so we deserve to be punished, but then everybody should be punished who don't show up for matches - Social Club, Somerset, Warwick. It's just unfair that one team gets punished and the rest of the teams get off on nothing."
Other cricketers felt the same way. St. George's Cup Match captain and St. David's player Lionel Cann felt by kicking out Rangers the whole league was being punished by depriving it of one of its best teams.
He said in an earlier Bermuda Sun article "To ban them from the competition is over the top. The BCB could have deducted them points or given them a fine instead.
"There were teams throughout the whole tournament who didn't show up to games. Are they going to be banned as well?"
Social Club failed to field a team for several games in the group stages before pulling out of the tournament altogether. And Somerset did not field a team in their final group game against Bailey's Bay.
"All we're asking for is consistency," said Cann.
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