Despite the eventual 10wicket margin of the defeat, there was much to be encouraged by from the West Indies performances during the recently concluded Adelaide first Test against their Aussie hosts. Particularly against the reality backdrop of no less than three West Indian players having made their debuts during the Tests. The West Indies’ batting …
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By Tony McWatt Having defeated reigning T20 World Cup champions England in their recent home series, the West Indies will be traveling Down Under to take on the Aussies in an equally important three-match series. A series that should rightfully be used by the West Indies team management as a dress rehearsal for the Caribbean’s …
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West Indies left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein benefitted from strong performances in the deciding fifth Twenty20 International (T20I) against England at Trinidad’s Brian Lara Cricket Academy. Led by Hosein and his left-arm spinning sidekick Gudaksh Motie, the West Indies claimed the T20I series 3-2 with a four-wicket win in the final match, largely on the back …
Canada will commence its first-ever T20 World Cup campaign with the 2024 competition’s opening fixture, a Saturday, June 1 encounter against archrivals and neighboring tournament co-hosts the United States. One of the Canadian players who should be exciting to watch will be the belligerent opening batter, Jamaicanborn, Aaron Johnson. 51, 84, 109*, 0, 1, 89, …
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Six Caribbean cricket stadiums will serve as match venues for this year’s June 1 – 29, 2024 ICC T20 World Cup. Commencing with this December Issue, and continuing through to this coming May, Wickets will feature each of the six venues in alphabetical order. Antigua’s Sir Vivian Richards Stadium is the first to be featured …
This month’s Issue awards Laurels to the Rt. Hon Desmond Haynes Chaired West Indies Senior Selection Panel, Akeal Hosein, Shamar Joseph, Haley Matthews, and Berbice Cricket Board outgoing President Hilbert Foster. Darts are deservedly thrown directly at Desmond Haynes himself, and at Cricket West Indies, specifically its Marketing & Commercial Department. This month’s Issue awards …
This month’s December Issue features only two darts as a departure from the customary three. The quantitative reduction is, however, sufficiently compensated by the quality of both darts which justifiably thrown directly at West Indies Selection Panel Chairman Desmond Haynes and CWI’s Commercial Director Dominic Warne can both only be described as mega! Haynes’s dart …
By David Jackson West Indies ended the year 2023 rather well with a solid and satisfying 3-2 T201 series win over England. This followed an ODI series win also against England, just prior to the T201 series, and a T201 series win against India, in August. In Tests the series win by West Indies in …
West Indies Cricket 2023: the Good, Bad And Soetimes Ugly! Read More »
Based on the ICC’s recently announced match fixtures, the eventual winner of this year’s Caribbean and USA jointly hosted T20 World Cup tournament will be required to play a total of nine matches and be victorious in at least seven. Four Group Round matches, three more in the Super8 stage, one of the two scheduled …
Happy New Year Everyone. Here’s wishing you and yours all the very best of health, happiness, and prosperity in 2024! To get 2024 started in, hopefully, a most positive manner I’ve decided to follow Colin Murray’s recent Trinidad Guardian example, by penning a 2024 Wish List. Whereas Colin’s list encompassed all sports for both his …
