Audley Boyd, Assistant Sport Editor
JAMAICAN OPENER Wavell Hinds has been dropped from the West Indies team for the third match in the Digicel One-day International Series against South Africa.
The left-handed opener failed to spark in the opening matches of the series at Sabina Park last weekend when he was dismissed for respective scores of five and three.
He will be replaced in the regional squad for the third one-dayer in Barbados on Wednesday by hard-hitting Leeward Islands batsman Runako Morton.
The Gleaner learnt last night that Hinds had been the only change in the squad that lost back-to-back matches on Saturday and Sunday and when asked to confirm this, chief executive officer of the Jamaica Cricket Association, Brian Breese, in a telephone conversation, said:
"Yes. They (WI selectors) brought in Runako Morton."
CONTROVERSY
Besides his batting failures, Hinds, a useful seam bowler, was involved in a bit of controversy with teammate Dwayne Bravo and South Africa captain Graeme Smith on the final day of the fourth Test match in the Digicel Series at Sabina Park last week Tuesday. (The full details of that incident are listed in a related story on B3).
Meanwhile, the regional team did not depart for Barbados at 4:00 p.m. yesterday as their BWIA flight out of Kingston had "mechanical problems", Breese also confirmed. They were slated to leave on the same plane at 1:00 a.m. this morning.
