West Indies batsman Devon Thomas, 33, has been provisionally suspended from international cricket with immediate effect by the International Cricket Council (ICC), after being charged with seven violations of the Anti-Corruption code. The charges specifically include his behaviour while at Caribbean Premier League (CPL) team St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, …
Read More »Pooran: “I can finally breathe!” McCoy takes 6/17 as WI beat India to snap 7-match losing streak
The West Indies cricket team ended a white-ball losing streak that spanned seven matches across three series today in St Kitts, as a historic bowling spell by Obed McCoy and a personal best with the bat by Brandon King saw them down India by five wickets in their second T20 …
Read More »Powell named West Indies T20 vice-captain; McCoy, Thomas and Keemo selected for Bangladesh series
Jamaica middle-order batsman Rovman Powell will serve as West Indies vice-captain in next month’s three-match T20 International series, as the “Maroon Men” prepare for their first outing in this format since the resignation of former skipper Kieron Pollard. West Indies face Bangladesh in the first of three T20I matches on …
Read More »Thomas, Motie get maiden West Indies Test call-ups, Cariah named President’s XI captain
Thirty-two year old Antigua and Barbuda wicketkeeper-batsman Devon Thomas was one of three uncapped players named by the Cricket West Indies (CWI) selection panel in a 12-man squad for the first Test against Bangladesh from Thursday 16 June at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Thomas, a former West …
Read More »WI regional championship roster changes, standings and top performers so far
There will be 10 roster changes for round four of the 2022 West Indies Championship, with five of the six franchises required to replace players selected for the West Indies tour to The Netherlands and Pakistan. The Guyana Harpy Eagles, who are fourth at present but trail leaders Barbados Pride …
Read More »Furlonge: ‘Give [Bravo] a little time’; T&T bats struggle again against Leewards, Jamaica cruise, Guyana enforce follow-on
The Trinidad and Tobago Red Force will be in survival mode on Day Four of their 2022 West Indies Championship meeting with the Leeward Islands Hurricanes, fainge a mammoth target of 316 runs with just four wickets in hand. At the close of play at the Diego Martin Sporting Complex …
Read More »Brathwaite posts record 276 against Jamaica; Red Force, Leewards win by an innings
Grovel! That was the message England captain Tony Greig sent to the West Indies 46 years ago as Clive Lloyd’s West Indians prepared to visit English shores. In words. The West Indians won that series 3-0, Vivian Richards blasting 291 and Michael Holding taking 14 wickets in the Oval Test. …
Read More »Opener Brathwaite gets ton for Barbados, Phillip cashes in as Red Force welly Windwards
West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite gave a timely reminder of his ability with the bat yesterday as he steered the Barbados Pride to 243 for 2 on Day 2 of the West Indies Championship at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. Barbados, the defending champions, were replying to Jamaica Scorpion’s first …
Read More »Phillip peppers Jamaica to leave Red Force just 59 runs shy of opening regional 4-day victory
It is not for nothing that, on Day 3 of their four-day West Indies Championship contest against the Jamaica Scorpions, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force head coach Dave Furlonge and his match analyst, Amit Jadoo, were already peeking at what the next opponents, the Windward Islands Volcanoes, were up to. …
Read More »Bryan Charles shines for Red Force at BCL Academy, while Barbados and Windwards start well
The Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, named after iconic West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago batsman Brian Charles Lara, belonged to 26-year-old off-spinner Bryan Charles today. Confused? So were the Jamaica Scorpions, as Charles finished with 6/48 with the visitors skittled out for 141. Scorpions stars Jermaine Blackwood and …
Read More »Pooran’s makeshift WI XI flattened in Karachi, as Pakistan win opening T20I by 63 runs
West Indies started their tour of Pakistan this morning with a 63-run defeat this morning, captain Nicholas Pooran’s experimental team put to the sword by the hosts at the Karachi National Stadium. Spinner Akeal Hosein removed Pakistan captain and star batsman Babar Azam for a duck with just the fourth …
Read More »Pollard out Pakistan tour due to injury; WI summon Devon Thomas and Rovman
West Indies white ball captain Kieron Pollard has been ruled out of the upcoming tour of Pakistan, after failing to recover sufficiently from a hamstring injury suffered at the 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Pollard tweaked his hamstring in West Indies’ T20 Super 12 contest against Bangladesh on 29 …
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