All-rounder Andre Russell is the only addition to West Indies’ T20 International Team which beat Sri Lanka 2-1 in February, as the defending T20 world Cup champions face South Africa from 2pm on Saturday at the Grenada National Stadium in the first of two CG Insurance T20 Internationals (T20I). Fully …
Read More »Best: Brathwaite’s West Indies lose it; whom the gods wish to destroy?
Just after 11.30 am with lunch approaching, Kyle Mayers, on 34, tried to club Kagiso Rabada over midwicket. A problem? Well, the ball was just short of a good length and, more importantly, well outside off-stump. It was not the first time; in the second innings of the First Test, …
Read More »Best: Is Holder’s unbirthday gift enough to take Brathwaite’s WI over the line?
Joshua da Silva had a birthday on Labour Day, Day Two of the Second Test between West Indies and South Africa. His former skipper Jason Holder will turn 30 on November 5 so yesterday would have been his unbirthday. He celebrated it in style, giving the side he once captained …
Read More »Vice-captain Blackwood follows Virat Kohli’s lead and gets his numbers up
Do the math. Kraigg Brathwaite’s West Indies were only half as good as Dean Elgar’s South Africa in the first innings of the Second Test match in St Lucia. Facing a 149-run deficit, WI will have to bowl out of their skins to avoid having a mountain to climb on …
Read More »Gabriel, Bravo recalled for Second Test against S/Africa; Harper: ‘We have to improve’
The Trinidad and Tobago pair of fast bowler Shannon Gabriel and left-handed batsman Darren Bravo were included in the 13-man West Indies team for the second and final Betway Test against South Africa in Gros Islet, St Lucia tomorrow. South Africa won the First Test by an innings and 63 …
Read More »De Kock, S/African pacers shine as Proteas make light work of woeful WI
Dean Elgar’s seventh-ranked South Africa needed only seven sessions to coast past Kraigg Brathwaite’s feckless West Indies in the First Test in St Lucia on Saturday. Well-deserved five-fers by the frontline quicks in both innings and a long-awaited, well-paced century by former South Africa skipper Quinton de Kock made the …
Read More »Hope, Powell and Seales get nod for WI’s First Test against S/Africa, Bravo misses out
Teenaged Trinidad and Tobago fast bowler Jayden Seales was among four new inclusions to the West Indies Test team for the first match of the Betway Test Series against South Africa, which bowls off on Thursday from 10am at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in St Lucia. Top order batsmen Shai Hope …
Read More »Hope, Seales included in West Indies 17-man provisional Test squad to face S/Africa
Star limited overs batsman Shai Hope was included in a 17-man provisional West Indies squad today to face South Africa in the Betway Test Series from 10 June in the Caribbean. Hope is one of five potential inclusions to the West Indies Test squad that played two draws from as …
Read More »CCJ judge, Winston Anderson, gets four-year CAS appointment
Justice Winston Anderson, a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judge and chairman of the CCJ Academy for Law, will spend the next four years as a member of the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), after his recent appointment to the international sport arbitration body. Anderson, a Jamaican national, …
Read More »Ambrose: West Indies’ glory days will come not back; why iconic pacer bowled a googly
Former West Indies pacer Curtly Ambrose was in the news last week. Speaking on the Talk Sports Live show in Antigua, he poured scorn on the notion of a possible return of WI cricket to its former glory. “Yes, we can be competitive and climb up the ICC rankings and …
Read More »Hetmyer, Russell are back as CWI announces 18-man provisional squad with T20 World Cup in mind
Batsman Shimron Hetmyer, all-rounder Andre Russell and pacer Sheldon Cottrell were among five additions to the West Indies squad announced today for consecutive five-match T20 International outings against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan in the Caribbean, which will run from 26 June to 5 August. Pacer Oshane Thomas and spinner …
Read More »CMO vetoes West Indies series against S/Africa due to spike; T&T suffers two more deaths and 291 infections
The Ministry of Health has vetoed the West Indies Cricket Board’s attempt to host South Africa in Trinidad next month, with chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram credited with the final word. The two cricket nations are scheduled to face each other in two Tests and five Twenty20 internationals and …
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