England cricketers have been banned from leaving their team hotel on the island of Trinidad after a man was shot dead on the same road.
Players had previously been warned not to leave the Hyatt Regency hotel except for the two matches on the island, Tuesday and Thursday, training on Monday and a pre-arranged round of golf between matches.
The need for caution was demonstrated when a man, identified in local media as 47-year-old Wendell Walker, was shot dead on Whitson Road, Port of Spain, near the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Walker was driving a silver Mercedes Benz when gunmen opened fire. Local media also reported another shooting at a mall in San Juan, a few miles east, this weekend.
England has toured the Caribbean several times since its last visit to Trinidad in 2009. Since then, their tours have generally tended to focus on the more touristy Caribbean islands, such as Barbados, Antigua, and, to a lesser extent, Grenada and St. Lucia. . England have also not toured Jamaica since 2009 and have not played Guyana since the T20 World Cup in 2010.