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I think I ought to apologise to Hayden Walsh Jr. But I know I owe Akeal Hosein an apology. Romario Shepherd, the allrounder who shared the spotlight with Hosein in Game Two of the Betway five-match T20 series in Barbados on Sunday, had an essential message for the West Indians …

On a turning Barbados’ Kensington Oval track on Monday, Australia’s batsmen took an aggressive approach and fought their way to a commanding six-wicket victory over Kieron Pollard’s feckless West Indians. The win gave Alex Carey’s side a 2-1 win in the three-match ODI series, some degree of revenge for their …

Needing only 188 to win Game 2 in the three-match ODI series against Alex Carey’s Australians, the West Indies seemed headed for a second successive shipwreck at Barbados’ Kensington Oval on Saturday. But a solid 93-run sixth wicket partnership between vice-captain Nicholas Pooran and former captain Jason Holder steadied the …

Only three West Indies batsmen reached double figures, four failed to get off the mark at all and five fell to Mitchell Starc as Alex Carey’s Australians took a 1-0 lead in the three-match ODI series at Kensington Oval on Tuesday.  Captaining his country for the first time, Carey (67 …

With 11 runs needed off the last over and Andre Russell on strike, there was not a West Indian in sight who did not see 4-0 coming. But although Mitchell Starc’s last ball went for four to the straight midwicket boundary, none of the first five—all clocked at over 140kph—had.  …

Sunday 9 June. India and Australia, their places almost reserved in the final four of the 2019 World Cup, are trying to settle the pecking order. The Indian innings is almost at an end. And already, with six balls still left, Australia are going to have to put together the …

When the Jason Holder-led West Indians took on Australia in Nottingham yesterday, the five-times World Cup winners emerged victorious by a margin of 15 runs. Recovering from 58 for 4 and then 79 for 5, Aaron Finch’s Aussies went on to post a challenging 288. In reply, the West Indies …