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(Part 46.) Getting inside the numbers. At the last men’s 50-overs-per-side Cricket World Cup in 2023, Australia’s vanquishing of previously unbeaten hosts India and their ruining of the anticipated victory party at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad earned them a champions’ purse of US$4 million. Compare that to the …

(Part 17.) Steady stalwart. “We don’t need Andy Roberts, Croft and Garner when we have superstar Vanburn Holder!” In pretending to be the voice of then West Indies Cricket Board of Control president Jeffrey Stollmeyer—at the time of the exodus of most first-choice players to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket …

(Part ten.) Fast and furious. It used to be said of Roy Fredericks that his version of batting heaven was for every bowler to have a new ball, such was his appetite for the pacy, bouncy stuff. And while his most memorable moment would come a few months after, with …

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 …