The 2023 New Year will mark the 95th anniversary of West Indies’ Test cricket entry. Just five years short of the coveted 2028 centennial. As such 2023 should be regarded as a prime time for the Caribbean region’s cricket administrators to re-establish the long since crumbling pillars that had once provided a very solid foundation …
Test Captain Kraigg Brathwaite has called for whoever is appointed as the West Indies team’s new Coach to be someone who “understands our culture!” Brathwaite’s suggestion was made during a post-match interview following the conclusion of the Adelaide-hosted Australia-West Indies Second Test which the Aussies won by 469 runs to subject his team to their …
Next Coach Must Revert To West Indies Cricket’s Old, Abandoned, Culture. Read More »
Carl Hooper the former West Indies captain and Guyana all-rounder has called for changes to be made at the highest administrative levels of Caribbean cricket. Hooper’s call was made in reaction to the West Indies having been bowled out by Australia for 77, half an hour before the dinner break on the fourth day in …
Despite having presented yet another loss of such a match played Down Under, the recently concluded first Test against their Aussie hosts has provided the West Indies team with some extremely useful takeaways. The lessons from which can be of excellent value to both the team and its selectors moving forward. By the time the …
0/140-31 overs and 13. Those were Roston Chase’s returns with ball and bat at the conclusion of the respective Australian and West Indies’ first innings in the opening match of the two Tests Series being played Down Under between the two teams. Returns which suggest that Chase’s controversial inclusion in the West Indies squad for …
Having scored just 173 runs at a miserly average of 11.53 and taken only 13 wickets while conceding 774 runs in his last 10 Test matches played Roston Chase must have considered himself to be a very lucky man when he advised of his inclusion in the West Indies squad for its two-match tour of …
The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel has named a 14-member squad for the first and second matches in the CG United One Day International (ODI) series against England Women starting on 4 December at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. West Indies and England will contest three day/night CG United ODIs starting at …
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David Murray, the former West Indies wicketkeeper whose life and career was ruined by his fateful decision to join the rebel tours of South Africa in the 1980s, has died in his native Barbados at the age of 72. Murray, son of the legendary Sir Everton Weekes, played a total of 19 Tests and ten …
WI Wickets caught up with the Barbados Cricket Association’s Chairman of Selectors Henderson Broomes. The following were his responses to the interview questions posed to him: WI: For the benefit of our readers kindly provide an outline of your BCA involvement to date and how you came into your current role? HB: My BCA involvement …
Take 8 With BCA’s Chairman Of Selectors Henderson Broomes! Read More »
The two-match Test series between West Indies and Australia began on Wednesday, November 30. West Indies have not won a Test in Australia since 1997, having lost 12 of their 14 games in the country. West Indies did emerge victorious in their most recent Test series against Bangladesh and England so there will be some …
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