00:00Former West Indies pacer Kirtley Ambrose, who is now the bowling consultant for Leawood Islands,
00:05believes that the regional four-day match against the TNT Red Force should have been called off on the opening
00:10day in Antigua.
00:11The match ended on day three after the umpires ruled that the pitch was not fit for play.
00:16That game was abandoned two days late.
00:21I'm telling you, when I arrived at the stadium Sunday morning,
00:25I looked at the pitch and immediately had my concerns, right?
00:33The pitch looked like it wasn't prepared.
00:37And I've been around cricket long enough to know when a pitch is prepared or prepared properly, right?
00:43And I voiced my concern to President Enoch Lewis, to my captain, Justin Graves, my other coaches,
00:51you know, Steve Liburd, William Cornwall.
00:52I said, listen, I am very, very concerned the way the pitch looks.
00:58He added that it looked like a pitch that was not prepared.
01:01To me, it looked like a surface.
01:03It was marked the crease, put the stumps, and that's it.
01:06And nobody can tell me different.
01:08I am no groundsman, but I've been around cricket long enough.
01:13Right.
01:13You know, you can't just get up today and start to prepare a pitch for tomorrow.
01:17No.
01:18It takes time, right?
01:21It takes time.
01:22So I, like I said, that pitch was not prepared.
01:25In a release today, Cricket West Indies has indicated that Leawood Island's Hurricanes
01:30Jeremiah Louis was discharged from hospital yesterday evening after his CT scan returned clear results.
01:37Ambrose also commented on the cricket structure for the West Indies four-day tournament.
01:42To me, it's just ridiculous, right, to use a mild word, because, I mean, how could the Card is a
01:49first-card season?
01:50Right.
01:50When Leawood's playing against Trinidad three games, Barbados, Jamaica three games,
01:55Wynwood's getting the three games, same opponents, and then the Card is a first-card season?
02:00Hmm.
02:01No, man, Cricket West Indies got better than that.
02:03Sergio Dufort, TV6 Sport.
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