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Robinson before Board today

Somerset Cricket Club will do everything in their power to ensure promising colt Jacobi Robinson will make his long-anticipated Cup Match debut on Thursday.

Chairman of Somerset's Cup Match selectors Anthony Bailey, described the youngster's appearance before Bermuda Cricket Board today ? for speaking on matters concerning local cricket's governing body ? as "ill-timed".

It is also understood Somerset Cricket Club officials are considering seeking an injunction to delay Robinson's hearing until after the conclusion of the annual mid-summer classic.

However, in the event Robinson is found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute, he could still be eligible to play under appeal, according to Board policy.

"I will be going with Jacobi (Robinson) to the hearing to find out what happens from there because this is certainly ill-timed for us," said Bailey yesterday.

"It certainly isn't good timing for us and we just want to find out exactly to what extent the disciplinary committee is going to go. But we'll just have to wait and see what happens because at the moment we don't want to make any comments that could jeopardise the hearing."

Bailey, however, refused to reply to reports the club were considering seeking an injunction.

He said: "I will have to reserve comments on that issue (injunction) until tomorrow (today), but we do have something in place."

Robinson is facing charges of bringing the game into disrepute, stemming from comments made in this newspaper, however it is understood there are a number of other matters in relation to the youngster's trip to the Port Elizabeth Cricket Academy in South Africa, although is unable to reveal the details for legal reasons.

The Somerset Cricket Club player, and his family, ruffled a few feathers on the BCB after making comments stating he had to fund medical scans out of his own pocket while overseas on a jointly sponsored BCB initiative at the Academy earlier this year where a "pre-existing" injury was first detected to his lower back during a routine musculo-skeletal test.

It was later discovered the injury had never been "disclosed" to either the BCB or local physiotherapists during appointments funded by the BCB.

Robinson subsequently threatened to return home earlier than expected but later opted to remain at the cricket academy for the duration.

Now, on the verge of beginning a new chapter in a still-blossoming career, Robinson's Cup Match fate remains in the balance ? some five months after returning home from South Africa.

"Jacobi (Robinson) is going up for bringing the game into disrepute which could be a number of things. But I can't speak any more on the matter because it would pervert the laws of natural justice if I were to go any further," BCB treasurer Neil Speight told last Friday.