On Sunday, when I checked in at the Oval on Facebook. there was a solitary comment on my post. “You have more patience than Job!” it read. And I thought to myself it is hardly about patience. There is a secret, though, to watching West Indies cricket. To paraphrase Dr …
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Scene: Office of the Minister of Satire. The phone rings. Mr Live Wire: Hello? Caller (singing): Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind… Live Wire: I hope you referring to Kamla. Caller: What? No my brother. Auld Lang Syne means to ‘times gone past’. I am calling …
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The good news is that the West Indies cricket team have finally made a defiant stance at a cricket pitch in Australia. The bad news is it is not against anyone in a “baggy green.” Coach Phil Simmons and his troops won’t be taming any Lyons this month from the …
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Columnist Earl Best shares a suggestion which, he feels, might bring the T&T men’s 4x400m relay team closer to gold in Rio next year: I run my mouth often and I sometimes jump to conclusions. And although, under a PP government, that might well be deemed qualification enough for a …
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I am willing to bet that there is a West Indian native or a West Indian supporter in the stats department at espncricinfo. That would explain why somebody tried to take shame outta we face on Sunday after Michel Clarke’s Aussies rolled over Denesh Ramdin’s West Indies with almost five …
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