CHAIRMAN of the Guyana Cricket Board’s (GCB) junior selectors, Nazimul Drepaul, yesterday declined to name the members of the Under-17 squad to represent Guyana at the upcoming Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Under-17 tournament scheduled to be held in Trinidad and Tobago.

This, according to Drepaul, is based on the recent High Court ruling where the executive committee of the GCB was deemed illegal.

Speaking with Chronicle Sport late yesterday afternoon, Drepaul made it clear that he is not in a position to reveal any information based on the High Court ruling on April 3 last, and directed this reporter to GCB head office for further details on the squad. However, those efforts proved futile up to press time last night.

The current group of executives of the Board cannot hold themselves out to be office-bearers or perform functions of the Board.

The matter was brought before High Court Judge, Justice Fidela Corbin, by Attorney Arudranauth Gossai on behalf of Secretary of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Rabindranauth Saywack, who claimed that the GCB was operating in contravention of the Guyana Cricket Administration Act established in 2014.

Meanwhile, prior to the High Court ruling, the junior selectors had put together a squad which participated in both one-day and three-day formats of the Inter-County Under-19 tournament in April/May. That tournament was used as preparation for the regional tournament.

The 14 players selected then were Matthew Nandu, Sarwan Chitnarine, Marvan Prashad, Mavendra Dindyal, Niran Bissu, Zeynul Ramsammy, Andre Seepersaud, Sheldon Charles, Azizi Christiani, Chandrapaul Ramraj, Jagdesh Dowlatram, Chaitram Balgobin, Avinash Rajkumar and Ajay Gainda.

The 2019 CWI Regional Tournament is scheduled to be played from July 4 to July 15. Barbados are the defending champions while Guyana finished third in 2018.