Samuel hopes to play again after ICC review

The West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuel looks forward to the ray of hope with the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to conduct a review of the 2-year ban that was to be observed on the player.

Samuel has been accused of his alleged links with the Indian Bookie Mukesh Kochar and thus he was handed a ban notice for two years by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

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The review may allow the player to retrace his earlier position in the national team once again.

A report in The Age says that Samuel and his legal team assert upon the point that the ban imposed upon Samuel by WICB was unjust and would prove baseless after the review by the ICC's code of conduct commission chairman, Michael Belhoff.

For the compensation of Samuel's wastage of time, his lawyers are supposed to file for a judicial review along with an injunction which will propose a plea for Samuel's return to the team while the whole matter is being settled.

Samuel's lawyers have already filed a submission to the ICC including a written statement from him, media interviews transcripts and a letter from Audrey Bishop, the sole dissenter on the WICB's disciplinary committee.

The transcripts of the interview provided by Richie Richardson to the media suggest that he was forced to submit the guilty verdict much against his wishes.

Samuel and his lawyers are to insist upon the fact that Samuel is not guilty of revealing any sensitive information to bookie Mukesh Kochar and that his relationship with him was above board. The payment received by Samuel from Mukesh was a kind of loan taken under adverse circumstances, when Samuel's credit card was denied in a Mumbai hotel.