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Despite the West Indies qualifying for the Super Eight stage of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup by beating New Zealand by 13 runs on Wednesday evening, many are still unconvinced by the team’s batting. West Indies slumped to 30 for 5 before Sherfane Rutherford belted an unbeaten 68 off …

When crunch time arrived in the CG United One-Day International (ODI) series at Kensington Oval last night, the West Indies were quite good. The problem, though, was that New Zealand were better. And so, in their last ODI match of 2022, the West Indies lost by five wickets to the …

On a rain-interrupted evening at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, the West Indies cricket team produced a Jekyll and Hyde performance en route to a 50 run One-Day International (ODI) loss to New Zealand, via the D-L method. The three-match series will be decided on Sunday at the same venue, with …

Shamarh Brooks hit a vital 79 runs (off 91 balls, 9×4, 1×6) to anchor the West Indies today in Bridgetown, as the hosts made light work of New Zealand to win the first of a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series by five wickets, with 66 balls remaining. It was the …

The West Indies snapped a five match losing streak in the T20 International format today, as they defeated New Zealand by eight wickets with six balls remaining in Kingston, Jamaica. The result offered just a consolation for the hosts, as New Zealand wrapped up the three match series when they …

Captain Nicholas Pooran suggested that West Indies’ shallow pool of players and packed match schedule is affecting their showings, as they were routed by 90 runs today in the second of a three match T20 International series against New Zealand in Sabina Park, Jamaica. The result saw New Zealand clinch …

A crucial late cameo by New Zealand allrounder James Neesham helped consign West Indies to their 10th defeat from 16 T20 Internationals in this calendar year, as the hosts lost by 13 runs in Kingston, Jamaica. Neesham scored 33 runs from 15 balls and, more crucially, 29 from New Zealand’s …

Thirty days of classy cricket in all three formats from June to August! Two Tests, nine One-day Internationals and 11 T20Is! The Caribbean region is in for a long, hot summer of cricket in 2022 in what CWI CEO Johnny Grave called ‘the busiest year of cricket ever in the …

“[…] The Guyana Cricket Board in conjunction with the Government of Guyana has had the foresight to acquire the services of former West Indies great Curtly Ambrose to conduct a fast bowling clinic, while, in T&T, the TTCB has launched a T10 cricket festival. “[…] When a regional board doesn’t …

For 32 years since Viv Richards’ West Indies beat Australia by nine wickets at the Gabba, no other country successfully breached that fortress.  Of the 31 matches played there between that defeat and this year, the home side had drawn seven and won 24. But without its appointed captain and …

Yeah, I take the piss out of it all the time. I think I’m one of the luckiest people on the planet. If any of my mates ask on the phone, “What are you up to?” I just say “I’m hanging around, waiting for a bit of luck, mate.”  He …

A yard and a half! Arguably already influenced by a fine, World Cup 2019’s finest hour was finally settled by that fine a margin at Lord’s yesterday; in fact, the official margin of victory was calculated on the countback of England’s 26 boundaries to Kane Williamson’s New Zealand’s 17. On …