No recall to national team for Marshall
Charlie Marshall’s bid for a recall to the national team has been rejected, it emerged yesterday.
The veteran left-hander, who was the leading run scorer in local cricket this past season, wrote to the Bermuda Cricket Board last week asking to be re-considered for future selection having been expelled last year after falling out with captain Clay Smith and coach Gus Logie.
The selectors — headed by Arnold Manders — met last week to discuss Marshall’s offer and his apparent willingness to mend bridges, though they eventually decided to resist his advances.
The BCB were due to release an official statement on that decision this afternoon, but during interviews yesterday coach Logie let it slip that Marshall would not be invited back into the fold for now.
The BCB’s statement was going to make clear that the selectors and coaching staff are happy with the current make-up of the squad and that as Marshall would not be able to play any part until at least December or early January — just over three months before the World Cup — his offer had come too late.
And The Royal Gazette also understands that concerns still exist among those who pick the squad that Marshall’s forceful personality is not what a now largely-settled squad requires so close to the biggest event in Bermuda’s sporting history.
His decision to go public with the offer before the selectors had had a chance to meet is also understood to have ruffled feathers at the BCB.