The T&T Cricket Board (TTCB) is expected to meet with newly appointed Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs Shamfa Cudjoe to discuss being sidelined by SPORTT when it comes to assisting local cricket clubs.
The T&TCB wrote to the minister this week asking for her intervention after it learnt that SporTT funding was going to be given directly to cricket clubs and not through the central body which is the T&TCB.
In a release, the T&TCB alleged that $.6 millon is to be distributed to 38 National League clubs, in the Premiership, and Championship Divisions, the two highest levels of local cricket.
President of the T&TCB, Azim Bassarath said on Thursday that Minister Cudjoe must enquire into why other deserving clubs were being neglected.
He also wants to know why the national governing body for cricket has been sidelined in the process of the disbursement of the funds.
The local cricket chief said that in the past, it was the norm for SPORTT to work through national sports organisations like the T&TCB, but in this instance, for an undisclosed reason the tried and proven process is being rejected.
Bassarath recalled a couple years ago, after representation was made by the T&TCB to then Minister of Sport Brent Sancho, funds were made available through the T&TCB to help every club.
"This also involved clubs in Tobago, which under the present system have nothing to benefit, and the sport minister made it his business to visit the zones and present the cheques to the club officials," said Bassarath.
"We are calling on minister Cudjoe to prevent this travesty that is taking place at SPORTT where the state agency's recent involvement in cricket seems to be designed to adversely affect the legitimate administration of the sport."
Ramnarine, and Daren Ganga, two former national cricketers have been involved in a protracted battle to unseat the administration of Bassarath, which has even reached the High Court.
Bassarath said that Minister Cudjoe must immediately call in the SPORTT Board and request answers for their actions which set a precedent likely to make the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs vulnerable to litigation by aggrieved national sports organisations.
