Port of Spain: West Indies captain Brian Lara faces a probe into his stinging outburst at selection policies and pitch conditions during the recent Test series against India.
A four-member committee headed by West Indies Cricket Board president Ken Gordon would investigate Lara's comments after India won their first Test series in the Caribbean in 35 years with a victory in the final match Jamaica.
The other members of the panel are Sir Alister Mc Intyre, former West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd and Gregory Shillingford.
"The Board considered at length the recent statements and actions of Mr Brian Lara during and after the conclusion of the fourth Test match versus India at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica."
"It was agreed to appoint a committee headed by the President of the WICB, together with Sir Alister Mc Intyre and Messrs Clive Lloyd and Gregory Shillingford to investigate all matters relating to Mr Lara's statements and to take such action as they may consider appropriate after these matters
are discussed with him," West Indies Cricket Board said in a statement.
"Mr Lara is currently away from the Caribbean, but it is expected that the committee will meet with him within the next two weeks."
After the series deciding defeat at Sabina Park, Lara had flayed the cricket authorities in the Caribbean and even threatened to "reconsider" captaincy.
However later, Lara, the highest runscorer in the history of Test cricket, was retained as captain and changes made in the selection panel.
Former West Indies opening batsman Gordon Greenidge was appointed its new chairman in place of Joey Carew.
The WICB also decided to offer retainer contracts to Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle, Corey Collymore, Fidel Edwards and Denesh Ramdin.
However, Dwayne Bravo missed out after the Board said it would be inappropriate to offer him a contract as he had a personal endorsement contract with a rival to the team's main sponsor Digicel.
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