I support Melbourne Cricket Club president Mark Neita’s view that the best white ball players should play Test cricket for West Indies—but can it happen in reality? When famous England Premier League football club Manchester United lost 3-1 to Brighton on 19 January 2025, their coach Ruben Amorim described his …
Read More »Dear Editor: Don’t blame WI players for franchise cricket clash; it’s ICC’s fault!
“[…] The issue with players from the West Indies and any non-Big 3 cricket nation (India, Australia and England) having to choose between international and T20 league duty is not a CWI/PCB/NZC/SLC/CSA/ACB/ problem. It is a failure of the ICC’s international calendar fixtures! “Fifa was able to find a system …
Read More »Benjamin: Why WI never got the best out of Sunil Narine
By his own admission a man of few words, Sunil Narine once found enough of them to point accusing fingers at the TTCB and its president. Azim Bassarath had emailed TTCB board members using language that highly offended the then high-profile national player. “Let him start to Bowl !!!!!!” the …
Read More »Lawrence: Our tactics worked against USA; individual errors and bad luck cost us
“It was our individual errors that cost us the game and the USA took advantage of it.” That was Trinidad and Tobago head coach Dennis Lawrence’s blunt assessment of his team’s 2-0 loss to the USA at Dick’s Sporting Goods Stadium in Colorado last evening. The 2018 World Cup Qualifying …
Read More »WICB Members: Cameron did nothing wrong; public did not get all the facts
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Wycliffe “Dave” Cameron has been promised a smooth ride by regional member directors as the embattled sport body looks to carry on in the face of US$42 million lawsuit from the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India). CARICOM officials met the WICB …
Read More »WICB director: CARICOM is all talk; the ICC will save West Indies
A West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) director, speaking on the condition of anonymity, has questioned CARICOM’s ability to solve the present impasse between the regional cricket body and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and suggested that only the International Cricket Council (ICC) can save West Indies …
Read More »Not WI: New Zealand reveals it would never have abandoned Narine
New Zealand cricket team coach Mike Hesson has revealed his team’s alternative viewpoint on cricketers arriving late from the Indian Premier League (IPL) as the “Kiwis” start their Test series against the West Indies today. The West Indies is without star spinner Sunil Narine after the Trinidadian was excluded by …
Read More »Connection triumph, Caledonia stunned in P/League double header
DIRECTV W Connection and Caledonia AIA, Trinidad and Tobago’s two CONCACAF Champions League participants, opened their 2013-14 Digicel Pro League campaigns with contrasting results last night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain. Connection romped to a clinical 7-0 thumping against St. Ann’s Rangers but the “Eastern Stallions” …
Read More »Stylish Weedon inspires Superstarz to Phoenix rout
The panoramic backdrop of the Northern Range mountains that surrounds the home venue of Trinidad and Tobago secondary school champions, St.Anthony’s College, gives a similarly spectacular outlook to famous cricket venues in Queenstown, New Zealand and Dharmasala, India. And the football played at the Westmoorings venue by Westside Superstarz FC yesterday was …
Read More »Faltering West Indies could miss tri-series final
If the West Indies find themselves mere spectators at Thursday’s Celkon Mobile Tri-Nation Series Cup final, they will have to blame their batsmen, with the exception of Darren Bravo and Lendl Simmonds. Set a revised 230 to get off 41 overs after rain again intervened, Kieron Pollard’s side reached 190 …
Read More »Club Sando shocks Super League champs, WASA
Bang Bang Bang! Boom Boom Boom! The sound of a vibrant sound system that played numerous dancehall tracks, greeted all patrons who entered the St. Joseph’s ground yesterday afternoon to see Blink/bMobile National Super League (NSL) champion WASA FC play its opening game of the 2013/14 season against Club Sando. …
Read More »Rain spoils West Indies contest at the Oval
When time was called this afternoon at the end of the rain-ruined day’s play at the Queen’s Park Oval, there was one question on all lips – especially those of Virat Kohli’s Indians. Will the West Indies be able, all were asking, to drive home their early advantage and keep …
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