Darren Bravo doesn't like the way the WICB has treated him

Darren Bravo would now realise that one tweet is enough for the Windies board to drop him from the squad. The left-handed batsman has now challenged Cricket West Indies to prove that the controversial post on his Twitter account against the President Dave Cameron, which resulted in the expulsion of the left-hander.

As early as in November, Bravo was sent home after a few days following his tweet against the President, where he called him a ‘Big Idiot’. He was soon handed the Grade ‘C’ contract, and a slipping average has not helped his cause. The southpaw’s contract was immediately revoked, and both the parties have been involved in intrinsic legal battles.

Further, Bravo was excluded from all forms of cricket, and including his team, Trinidad and Tobago dropped him from their squad for the domestic season.

Cameron-Bravo, a conflict that has to be solved

Last week, speaking to the Caribbean television network Line & Length, Cameron said that Bravo would need to delete the tweet to be eligible to play for West Indies again. “What Darren Bravo has to do first and foremost is take down the tweet,” Cameron said. “Every day that tweet is an infraction. Secondly, he needs to accept that he has done something wrong and then we can move forward from there.”

On the same channel, this week the left-hander replied saying “Even though you saw a tweet on my account, on my Twitter account, no one actually asked me if I did that,” Bravo said.

In his first interview since being dropped from the squad, he claimed that neither the West Indies coach or the media manager asked him if he tweeted it, saying “No one asked me: ‘Darren Bravo, did you tweet that?’ No one asked me anything. So I went to sleep.”

When asked if he had posted the tweet, Bravo said his legal team – comprising attorneys Leslie Haynes and Donna Symonds – was best placed to respond. “I wouldn’t answer that question right now. The best person to answer that question is my legal team.”

On the concluding note, he virtually ruled himself out of selection for the England tour in August-September, saying he will be “fulfilling” his contract in the Caribbean Premier League where he represents Trinbago Knight Riders.