A cricket selector’s job is never easy at the very best of times. Even more so for the current West Indies selectors, challenged as they are by the onerous task of choosing the very best fourteen or fifteen squad members for any given series from a relatively limited pool of available sufficiently talented players. Add …
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CWI should now be pursuing the creation of a movie-sized, Hayley Matthews landscape poster depicting her astronomical rise as a world-famous, impressively wealthy, Women’s professional cricketer. The poster, to be hung on walls in schools throughout the Caribbean, should chronicle the highlights of Matthews’ evolving cricket career. From the time when as an eleven-year-old she …
Make Hayley Matthews’ West Indies Cricket’s Poster Girl! Read More »
Veteran Caribbean Cricket Commentator Joseph “Reds” Perreira has been included as one of ten Guyanese to be conferred with the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy Degree from the University of Guyana as part of its 60th Anniversary celebrations. Reds along with his fellow recipients Baroness Valerie Amos, actress CCH Pounder, cricketer Rohan Kanhai, Keith Waite, Bernadette …
Dr. Joseph “Reds” Perreira. UG Honorary Doctorate For Reds! Read More »
BARBADOS PRIDE: Played 7 Won 3 Lost 3. Preliminary Round Standing – 3rd! Pride’s hopes of finishing as one of the tournament’s top two teams at the conclusion of the Preliminary Round Group stage were dented by the inconsistencies of their senior batsmen, Only three of the Pride’s West Indies representative batters, Shai Hope (200), …
CWI 2023 CG United Regional Super50 Group Sage Roundup! Read More »
Alick Athanaze for possibly securing his selection as Brandon King’s opening partner for the West Indies’ forthcoming ODI Home Series against England. Athanaze has been among the leading run-scorers in the ongoing edition of the Super50 Cup. The young lad has scored 276 runs in six games at an impressive average of 46. He was …
By David Jackson The decline of West Indies in ODIs over the last ten years has been depressing and heartbreaking for West Indian fans, not only at home but abroad. When West Indies failed to qualify for the ICC ODI World this year the pain was humiliation and pain was exceedingly great. A shameful feeling …
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There are more questions than answers was the title of the 1972 hit single recorded by American reggae singer Johnny Nash. In that song, Nash’s lyrics state, “And the more I find out, the less I know!” Although that hit single was recorded well over 50 years ago, its opening lyrics are ironically very much …
More Questions Than Answers In West Indies Cricket! Read More »
February 26, 2030, will mark the centenary anniversary of the West Indies’ first-ever Test victory. That win was achieved against our former colonial masters England at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC), Bourda in what was then known as British Guiana. It was subsequently renamed Guyana when Independence was achieved on May 26, 1966. Bourda is …
Proposed: A WI Cricket Museum & U13 Academy For Bourda! Read More »
When Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her government get around to compiling this year’s list of deserving National Achievement Award recipients, Hayley Mathews’ name should now be one of the very first to be included. Through her outstanding accomplishments in international cricket, Matthews has made all of Barbados, indeed the entire Caribbean, extremely proud. …
Hayley Matthews Deserves A Barbados National Achievement Award! Read More »
Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) 2023 Regional Super50 Cup started on October 17. The players involved in this year’s tournament will be competing for increased prize money with the winning team receiving US$100,000, compared to last year’s US$30,000, while the runners-up will collect US$50,000. However, far too many of the players selected by the six territorial …
Lack Of Forward Thinking Evident in Super50 Squads! Read More »
