'Depressed' ex-Windies cricketer's last ditch attempt to stay in New Zealand

The only hope cricketer former West Indies Franklin Rose escape deportation is a last-minute change of heart from the Immigration Minister Craig Foss.

Rose, who moved to New Zealand in 2011, spent the last five weeks of prisoners in the Central Prison of Mount Eden Auckland.

Before 18:00 on Tuesday that he could put on a flight back to New Zealand Jamaica.Immigration finally arrested two years after the Jamaican had been working with the paging system to live here illegally.

In 2014, he was working at the batsman and right-arm Bowler, who played 19 Test for the West Indies match, and notice of deportation.

The lawyer said Rose, Ramya Sathiyanathan Voss has rejected a "special direction" system on the basis of "humanitarian circumstances," staying the deportation on Tuesday night.

Sathiyanathan is "confused" Why was her client, who had been complied with in the regular visits Immigration New Zealand, locked up and then placed in a short time of migration.

She said his spokeswoman Vos will not comment on the issue of Rose because of "privacy issues."

Sathiyanathan said her client "distressed" to suffer from depression worse because of the arrest of Mount Eden and face an uncertain future with the distant homeland of his family in Jamaica.

NZME Rose was granted a work visa when he was offered the post of coach of the University of Auckland Cricket Club - but he did not have a valid visa since 2012.In the meantime, he worked as a coach volunteers for cricket in the number of schools in Oakland and with the Salvation Army said.

The Sathiyanathan get support from the Caribbean New Zealanders and "wider community" to her client.

"He came here to train children, and a lot of people are aware of his contribution to New Zealand."

Flashy fast bowler played 19 Tests and 27 one-day international in the West Indies after his debut in 1997.

Rose toured New Zealand in the summer of 1999-2000 and played in the Boxing Day Test in Wellington when the looting of the Black Cap Mathew Sinclair on 214 for the first time.

Playing his final test in England in August 2000, ending with 53 wickets at a rate of 31.