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The Trinbago Knight Riders, led by West Indies white ball captain Kieron Pollard, proved unbeatable throughout the 2020 season, winning all 12 of their Caribbean Premier League games. In the opening encounter of the 2021 season on Thursday at Warner Park in Basseterre, St Kitts, the Guyana Amazon Warriors, astutely …

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 …

“[…] Shai Hope: batsman/wicketkeeper. My first surprise selection. Easily among the best batsmen in the West Indies at the moment; can accumulate without offering chances, stabilises the middle overs…” Ken Jaikaransingh, who rarely missed a day of Test cricket at the Oval when the WI were still the WINdies, selects …

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 …

Pakistan’s 7-run win over West Indies in the second T20I at the National Stadium in Providence, Guyana, on Saturday turned on six elements: Pakistani skipper Babar Azam’s beautiful batting, rain’s inopportune 17-minute interruption, Man-of-the-Match Mohammad Hafeez’s miserly bowling, Evin Lewis’ untimely injury, WI skipper Kieron Pollard’s uncharacteristic lack of timing, …

Needing only 188 to win Game 2 in the three-match ODI series against Alex Carey’s Australians, the West Indies seemed headed for a second successive shipwreck at Barbados’ Kensington Oval on Saturday. But a solid 93-run sixth wicket partnership between vice-captain Nicholas Pooran and former captain Jason Holder steadied the …

A magnificent, low, diving, one-handed catch by Fabian Allen stopped Aaron Finch’s Australians in their tracks as they sought to chase down an Evin Lewis-powered West Indies target of 199 runs. And unable to motor on, the tourists fell 16 runs short as the Nicholas Pooran-led home side closed out …

With 11 runs needed off the last over and Andre Russell on strike, there was not a West Indian in sight who did not see 4-0 coming. But although Mitchell Starc’s last ball went for four to the straight midwicket boundary, none of the first five—all clocked at over 140kph—had.  …

‘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 …

Man-of-the-Match Chris Gayle sloughed off the ‘ol’ handle, showed off the old Universe Boss form and lashed the Nicholas Pooran-led West Indies to an emphatic six-wicket win over Aaron Finch’s hapless Australians.  Without a T20I half-century for over five years, the almost 42-year-old former opener suddenly re-found his appetite for …

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 …

Former West Indies pacer Curtly Ambrose was in the news last week. Speaking on the Talk Sports Live show in Antigua, he poured scorn on the notion of a possible return of WI cricket to its former glory. “Yes, we can be competitive and climb up the ICC rankings and …