The Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team picked up their first win of the 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League tonight. It came against the outfit, The Bahamas, which knocked the Soca Warriors out of the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying series. Yet, in the end, a 1-0 win at the …
Read More »CWI bids farewell to ‘a quintessential WI cricketer’; Thursday send-off for David Holford
Cricket West Indies and West Indies cricket will this week say their last goodbyes to a former Test player who has served the game in the region for many years in several different capacities. David Holford, the former West Indies allrounder who passed away on Monday in his native Barbados …
Read More »Pooran’s Maroon Men warm up with two T20Is in Australia; pink ball Test for Brathwaite’s side
Nicholas Pooran’s white ball West Indies side will go Down Under for this year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, to be played from 16 October to 13 November. But they will not be the only regional squad in action in Australia in the last quarter of the year. Skipper Kraigg …
Read More »Eve makes nine changes to T&T squad as he promises to attack The Bahamas on Monday
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team head coach Angus Eve vowed to come out swinging on Monday night. He announced as many as nine changes to the match-day squad which suffered a 2-1 Concacaf Nations League defeat to Nicaragua on Friday night in Managua. From 8pm tomorrow at the …
Read More »Brathwaite’s ton sees Barbados finish WI Championship in style; Permaul misses 500 wkt landmark
A typically solid, unspectacular century by skipper Kraigg Brathwaite, his third of the season, saw the Barbados Pride to a first innings victory over the bottom-of-the-table Windward Islands Volcanoes at the Diego Martin Sports Complex today. Today, the rain, which effectively ended any major threat from second-placed Leeward Islands Hurricanes …
Read More »Brooks, Mayers help WI top up S/League account; allrounder wants to become permanent opener
A boundary-filled 106-ball Kyle Mayers century followed by a less belligerent, more patient 115-ball Shamarh Brooks effort put Nicholas Pooran’s West Indies in the driver’s seat in the third and final ODI at the VRA Stadium in Amstelveen today. But somebody forgot to send Netherlands openers Vickramjit Singh and Max …
Read More »Carrington: ‘Our intention was not to concede’; game management and outage contributed to loss in Nicaragua
Trinidad and Tobago Men’s National Senior Team assistant coach Reynold Carrington and captain Marvin Phillip confirmed that the Soca Warriors set out for a draw last night in Managua, as they picked over their 2-1 defeat to Nicaragua in their opening Concacaf Nations League assignment. The Warriors conceded from a …
Read More »T&T fall 2-1 to Nicaragua in drab Nations League opener, disjointed Warriors struggle in Managua
Trinidad and Tobago will return empty-handed from a bizarre trip to Managua, as the Soca Warriors fell 2-1 to Nicaragua in the wee hours of this morning in their opening 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League fixture. There are still five group matches left in Group A of Concacaf’s second tier competition. …
Read More »Rain permits just 24 combined overs at three venues, as WI Championship nears conclusion
Guyana Harpy Eagles’ prolific opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul faced just over 30% of the 140 legal balls delivered on Day Three of the West Indies Four-day Championship today. And is not out on three! As is his custom, Chanderpaul—scorer of 140 (off 434 balls) and 184 (off 425 balls) in …
Read More »Rovman, Shepherd miss Netherlands series due to ‘visa delays’, ready for Pakistan ODIs
Middle-order batsman Rovman Powell and allrounder Romario Shepherd will miss the West Indies’ entire One-day International (ODI) series away to the Netherlands ‘due to visa delays’, according to a press statement from Cricket West Indies (CWI). West Indies lead the three-match series 2-0 and the two teams play their final …
Read More »Pride nearer to successful defence as rain ruins Eagles’ and Hurricanes’ title chances
If the Trinidad and Tobago weather co-operates, current West Indies Regional Four-day Championship champions Barbados Pride should have an easy task to seal their 2022 defence. If, however, the weather does not co-operate, as was the case today, Kraigg Brathwaite’s Pride will walk away as 2022 champions without another ball …
Read More »King keeps it simple as Maroon Men romp to 5-wkt win and 2-0 series lead over Netherlands
In Game Two of the three-match ODI series against the Netherlands at the VRA Ground in Amstelveen today, Brandon King kept his head while other West Indian batsmen around him were losing theirs. The talented right-hander reaped multiple rewards: an unbeaten 91 to go with his 58 not out in …
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