PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad batsman Runako Morton and Leeward Islands all-rounder Tonito Willett were forced out of a Caribbean regional match after being arrested, officials said.
The 32-year-old Morton, a former West Indies Test player, and Willett were picked up by police after the first day of a four-day game at the Queen's Park Oval.
"Trinidad and Tobago batsman Runako Morton and Leeward Islands all-rounder Tonito Willett are expected to take no further part in the four-day match," said a West Indies Cricket Board statement, without giving further details.
"They were taken into police custody sometime between the end of the first day's play and the start of the second day's play of the Trinidad and Tobago v Leeward Islands match. They remain in police custody.
"The WICB will make no further comment on this matter at this time."
Morton has played 15 Tests, 56 ODIs and seven Twenty20 internationals for West Indies, but his last Test was in 2008 and he has not played an ODI since February 2010.
He has endured a controversial career which included being expelled from the West Indies Academy in 2001 and pulling out of the Champions Trophy in September 2002 in Sri Lanka after lying about the death of his grandmother.
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