A cricket player who threatened his coach, an off-duty police officer, was yesterday sentenced to 24 months’ probation.Kamal Trott, 36, told Magistrates’ Court he’d only used the threatening words after Pc Caleb Jean-Pierre threatened to slap him.Prosecutor Susan Mulligan said the pair were at Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club around 1.30pm on Saturday when PC Jean-Pierre told Trott to warm up.Trott then approached Pc Jean-Pierre and said: “Let me make something clear. I don’t like cops. I will take you out.“You don’t know me. You don’t know about me. I will take you out. I will spray you after the game.”Ms Mulligan said the term “spray” has connotations with gunfire. The threat was particularly ominous as there were a number of children present at the club, she added.Trott said there were several young people, around 12 years old, using the field at the time and that Pc Jean-Pierre had asked him to bowl against them.“I told the coach that he cannot be serious. You want me to bowl against these children? I will hurt them,” Trott said. “He said: ‘Shut the f*** up and come on down or I will slap you’.”Trott admitted threatening Pc Jean-Pierre but denied saying he would “spray” him or anything similar.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said the defendant should not be involved in any sort of youth activities because he had a violent criminal record.Trott told the court that he was not involved in any youth programmes, and would be willing to avoid any such groups.Mr Warner sentenced Trott to 24 months of probation, with the condition that he stay away from youth cricket programmes.