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A T20-Powerplay-style opening partnership between Abid Ali (29 off 23 balls) and Imran Butt (37 off 44) on Monday afternoon pushed the door open for Babar Azam’s Pakistan to level the two-match Test series at 1-1 at Sabina Park on Tuesday. But it was Man-of-the-Match (10 wickets for 94 runs) …

Let me say from the outset, like Michael Holding, I think the only thing missing from a T20 match is (in our case) a case or two of Carib and a pot of pelau, some bottle and spoon and a DJ, plus some ‘winer gyul’ (the IPL & the CPL …

Late on Day Four of a see-saw First Test at Sabina Park on Sunday, Kraigg Brathwaite’s West Indies held their nerve and rode their luck to eke out a narrow one-wicket win over Babar Azam’s Pakistan. In a low-scoring game, number 9, Kemar Roach, and number 11, Jayden Seales, came …

“[…] Who selects our commentators? What prerequisites should potential commentators have before qualifying as commentators, and being unleashed on the helpless listeners? Is a facility with the English language one of these prerequisites?” The following Letter to the Editor on the standard of West Indies cricket commentary was submitted to …

Right-handed middle-order batsman Nkrumah Bonner has been recalled to the West Indies 17-member provisional Test squad announced by the Roger Harper-led selection panel on Monday. The 32-year-old Jamaican, who earned a middle-order spot on the starting XI with his consistent performances in Bangladesh earlier this year, has fully recovered from …

Now that the West Indies’ ‘Fab Four’, the ‘Real McCoy’ and Fabian ‘Bucket Hands’ Allen are out of the way, let us take a close look at the composition of the rest of the WI T20I squad.  Unlike in the Test arena, where WI seem to be on a never-ending …

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 …

I vex too bad. Since Chris Gayle, looking something like the long-time Gayle, buss real bat on Finch and dem twice last week, I curious like hell. Ah want to find out wha go happen in October when, the news jess break, WI in de same first round group with …

‘A man hit a ball in St Lucia and it end up in Trinidad…’ Superblue’s original reference is to a prince, Brian Charles Lara, the Prince of Port-of-Spain, in Antigua; mine is to a batsman, left-handed like Lara, who, in the 1st T20I between West Indies and Australia at the …

Kieron Pollard’s star-studded highly favoured white ball unit, some are saying, can make history and retain their T20 World Cup title in India in a few months’ time.  No chance, Curtly Ambrose demurs. Not unless the batsmen start using their brains and divest themselves of ‘the foolish notion that T20 …

In the first T20I at the Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Friday, the West Indies only got to 24 for 2 in the Powerplay; in reply to the home side’s total of 145, Australia raced to 70 for 3 at the end of the first six overs.  At …

“Hmmmmm, here comes the counter-offensive…” It was not the first two questions that clued me in; it is what came next. Early on in this week’s Mason and Guests programme, evincing not the slightest interest in the way the West Indies have used the mentors, host Andrew Mason had some …