Farcical 'exclusion' robs tournament of miffed star

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West Indies prima and Adelaide Strikers allrounder Deandra Dottin has claimed she was "excluded" from playing successful the Women's Premier League aft the Gujarat Giants baselessly deemed her unavailable for "medical reasons".

In a connection posted to societal media, Dottin said she was declared acceptable to play from arsenic acold backmost arsenic February 14 aft suffering "minor abdominal pain".

However, contempt producing aesculapian clearance connected respective occasions, the 31-year-old was required by Gujarat to acquisition scans earlier the inaugural WPL play kicked disconnected connected March 4.

As the scans were incapable to beryllium completed successful the clip requested, Dottin was deemed unfit to contention the tournament.

"I stay profoundly disappointed by what tin only, plausibly, beryllium described arsenic bewildering reasoning for my omission from the tournament," Dottin wrote.

"At the commencement of the tournament, the franchise claimed that I was excluded from the squad due to the fact that I was seemingly 'recovering from a aesculapian situation'."

Dottin acknowledged that she was treated for abdominal symptom and swelling past December, stating that she was told to remainder by respective specialists until mid-February earlier resuming grooming and playing.

"I experienced immoderate soreness connected the archetypal time of my resumed grooming which was anticipated and reasonable," she wrote.

"I was transparent astir this successful correspondence with the Gujarat Giants' physiotherapist, nevertheless this was misconstrued and aboriginal conveyed to members of the franchise's absorption squad arsenic maine 'experiencing abdominal symptom post-session' which was not what I had indicated."

This prompted Gujarat to question scans, which Dottin claims were demanded with 1 day's announcement connected February 25, making the petition "near impossible" to fulfil.

She was aboriginal fixed an extended deadline of March 1 but added that Gujarat was incapable to assistance her with booking a scan astatine a backstage infirmary wherever she is based successful Canada.

This foreshadowed talks the squad were going to regenerate her successful the squad with Irish-Australian Kim Garth.

On March 5, Gujarat said successful a connection that it was "unable to get aesculapian clearance" for Dottin.

"To the champion of my knowledge, different players had not been requested to partake successful aesculapian investigating nor necessitate aesculapian clearance arsenic a requisite to participating successful the tournament," Dottin wrote.

Dottin was acquired by Gujarat for implicit $109,000 successful February's WPL subordinate auction.

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