TORONTO, Canada – Despite savouring their fifth unprecedented fifth consecutive victory in the Scarborough Cricket Association (SCA) Premiere League, Hawaiian Arctic Cricket Club (HACC) president Archie Mohan is still perturbed and upset that to date no action has been taken against East/West Cricket Club for their unruly behaviour in last season’s final.The outspoken Mohan made know his feelings last Sunday when the SCA held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Agincourt Community Centre here in Scarborough, Toronto. According to Mohan, the 2015 season is fast approaching and he’s still waiting to see what action, if any, will be taken against the perpetrators.

Mohan’s comments were directed at the SCA officials who he claimed seemed to have put the issue on the back-burner following the aborted final, played at the Ashtonbee ground on October 5 last year.
The long-standing Guyanese president also questioned why no disciplinary action was taken against the offending players whose atrocities were conducted in full view of the SCA president and other executive members.
Acknowledging that they had received the report from the presiding umpires, SCA vice-president Besham Singh, whose portfolio the disciplinary committee falls under, assured that the matter will be dealt with prior to the commencement of the 2015 season.
Seemingly staring certain defeat at the hands of HACC, East/West staged an unbelievable display in full view of the hundreds of spectators who had flocked the ground to witness what had promised to be a keenly contested final between the two top teams.
Irked by a decision which saw the umpire rule not-out to a vociferous caught-behind appeal off number three batsman Reyaz Prahalad, the East/West players proceeded to display unsportsmanlike behaviour, storming and pleading with the umpire to change his original decision.
When this was not accomplished the players turned their attention to the stumps at the batsman’s end, uprooting them in the process.
The behaviour forced the umpires to award the game to HACC with the score on 27 for one in pursuit of the paltry 127 all out in 42.1 overs made by East/West. Former Guyana opener Krishna Arjune was undefeated on 14 when the game was abandoned.
The victory catapulted HACC to an unprecedented fifth consecutive title while soaring to 17 wins in a row this season.
A similar incident occurred in the 2011 final, which featured the same two teams, and according to a very reliable source the league apparently failed to act.
According to the source East/West vehemently protested a run-out decision which went against them, and again uprooted the stumps and even went further by allegedly making contact with one of the umpires. The source further pointed out that after intervention by the police, HACC agreed to continue the game although it was awarded to them and went on to win quite easily.
The source disclosed that the league failed to take any decisive action and this may have given East/West licence to continue their unsportsmanlike attitude.

(By Frederick Halley)