Jacobi Robinson has been invited to train with Bermuda’s senior national cricket team.The Somerset all-rounder was personally invited to join a provisional training squad by Arnold Manders who will serve as national coach on an interim basis when David Moore’s contract expires next March.“I invited Jacobi to train but that’s going to be a selection committee decision,” said Manders, who along with assistant national coach Clevie Wade has nearly completed the Australian High Performance Level 3 Coaching Course.In a recent interview with this newspaper former national skipper Manders revealed his intention to invite other players to train with the national cricket squad.“I want to open it up and let the chips fall where they may,” he said. “But that’s going to be a selection committee decision and we have to go through the Board first.”Robinson was voted as last season’s Logic First Division Player of the Year after helping Somerset gain promotion and reach the final of the Knockout Cup.Yet despite his outstanding achievements on the pitch the son of former Western Stars orthodox spinner Wayne (Spike) Richardson was not named in the BCB’s training squad of 45 players chosen to train for next year’s Americas Division 1 Twenty20 and ICC World Cricket League Division 3 Tournaments.The BCB did not respond to questions requesting reasons why Robinson was excluded from the training squad.Despite being overlooked for selection, Robinson, who has never played or trained under coach Moore, has publicly expressed his willingness to represent his country again in the future.“At any time I would like to play for my country and, going forward, of course I would love to play for my country,” he said in a previous interview with this newspaper. “I still have the passion and desire to be involved.”In 2004 the BCB and Robinson were involved in a bitter row after the latter had considered returning early from a BCB-sponsored training stint at the University of Port Elizabeth International Cricket Academy in South Africa. Robinson had contemplated leaving early because of a troublesome back injury and growing costs for treatment paid for out of his own pocket.The player eventually completed his stay at the academy but was later placed on six-months probation by the BCB for making “unauthorised” comments about his ordeal in South Africa to this newspaper without the Board’s permission.When asked is there any bad blood between the BCB and himself in a previous interview, Robinson replied: “I think there have been issues with me and the Board since South Africa and it’s been like a dark cloud over my head since 2004.”