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West Indies opener Kraigg Brathwaite has stepped down as Test captain and is expected to play in the upcoming home series against Australia as a regular team member. Cricket West Indies (CWI) director of cricket Miles Bascombe said a decision will be made on Brathwaite’s replacements “in the coming weeks”. …

I support Melbourne Cricket Club president Mark Neita’s view that the best white ball players should play Test cricket for West Indies—but can it happen in reality? When famous England Premier League football club Manchester United lost 3-1 to Brighton on 19 January 2025, their coach Ruben Amorim described his …

“[…] There was also disappointment in the fact that Alzarri Joseph, who is on a multi-format contract with the West Indies board, opted out to go and play franchise cricket. “It is an issue that does not seem to arise with the other ICC affiliates… The West Indies side would …

Ralph Gonsalves, an unconditional West Indies cricket supporter, has an important message for Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Dr Kishore Shallow. The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister is unhappy with the way regional cricket is being managed. According to him, “the same bureaucratic, lifeless kind of administration” is …

After the eminently predictable England whitewash, even the optimists among us expected a miracle turnaround against South Africa. But that Kraigg Brathwaite’s no-hopers contrived to lose the Second Test in Guyana in just nine sessions is hard to take. It is a failure of leadership and raises serious questions about …

“In our eras of greatness, when West Indies took the field, ghostly presences walked with the players, representing commitment to a higher cause, loyalty to the proudest of traditions and attachment to a long line of heroes—and the twelfth man in the team always answered to the name of courage.” …

“[…] Impatience was our downfall… Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul have got to have a long hard look at themselves in the mirror; they’ve got to get their bodies behind the ball or else leave it…” The following Letter to the Editor on the West Indies’ ongoing Test series against …

Cricket West Indies (CWI) today confirmed their list of centrally contracted men’s and women’s players for the 2023-24 season, based on “recommendations from the selection panels and approval by the board of directors”. There are 14 men and 15 women on the list, which is drawn up “based on player …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Things you can trust more than the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force’s opening partnership at present: slight pepper from your local doubles vendor, MP Foster Cummings’ banking history, former senator Robert Sabga’s memory… Red Force captain Imran Khan won the toss at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba this …