KINGSTON, May 25: The two lawyers that represented Marlon Samuels at the West Indies Cricket Board’s disciplinary hearing to determine his links with an alleged Indian bookmaker intend to challenge his two-year suspension from the game.

Jamaican attorneys K. Churchill Neita and Delano Harrison believe that an application for judicial review stands a realistic chance of success and they intend to pursue it actively.

“From the outset, we wish to make it clear that we proposed to challenge the findings of the majority [3-1] by way of judicial enquiry, as we believe a most grave injustice has been done by their finding of our client’s liability of one of the International Cricket Council’s disciplinary offences,” the two lawyers said in a news release on Saturday.

Samuels was charged with receiving the benefit of the provision of hotel accommodation to the value of $1,238 from a suspected bookie Mukesh Kochchar or his associates which could bring him or the game of cricket into disrepute under the ICC’s Code of Conduct.

But he was cleared of another charge of passing confidential team information regarding the West Indies opening bowlers in the first ODI against India which was played on Jan 21 last year at Nagpur to the bookie.

The lawyers noted there was a need to clarify “many misunderstandings and misconceptions” that arose from Samuels’ hearing before the WICB’s disciplinary committee on May 9.—AFP