The Prince of Port-of Spain, former West Indies captain and legendaru batting maestro Brian Charkes Lara, is now back right where he rightfully belongs! Cricket West Indies (CWI) recently announced that Lara, has agreed to henceforth provide his most valuable assistance to West Indies cricket as a Performance Mentor. Lara will be working across all …
Five members of the West Indies Academy have earned places in franchise teams for the first and second rounds of the upcoming West Indies Championship four-day first-class tournament, which started on 31 January. The selected West Indies Academy players are Kirk McKenzie, left-handed batter for Jamaica Scorpions; Kevin Wickham, right-handed batter for Barbados Pride; Ashmead …
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The West Indies Women’s team selectors have included the Under-19 World Cup trio of Zaida James, Trishan Holder and Djenaba Joseph in a 15-member squad announced to compete in this month’s ICC Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa. All three players, who have already made their senior team debuts, will be joined by veteran seamer …
Born, May 6, 1998 in Barbados and now aged 24 years, 8 months and counting, Nicholas Rasheed Kirton has of late been straddling two cricket worlds. Those of his native Barbados as well as Canada, his adopted home. His mother being Canadian-born of Bajan heritage and his father a 100% pure son of “the Rock,’ …
THE executives of the pro-active Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) at their monthly meeting on Thursday last approved a plan for the honouring of several overseas-based cricketing heroes of the county who now live in the United States. The Board is hoping to organise a historic ceremony at a venue in New York on the 10th …
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West Indies will soon be engaged in a two-match Test series against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe. The first Test match is scheduled for February 4 – 8 at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo with the second Test scheduled for 12 – 16 February. West Indies are ranked two places above Zimbabwe in the ICC Test …
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By Ray Ford This coming March or April – whenever the elections for president will be, West Indies cricket will again reach a fork in the road. Will those who are tasked with administering it choose a president from among those in its smoke-filled window-shuttered room? Or, will they raise the blinds and look around? …
With the underwhelming performances of the West Indies and South Africa on their respective tours to Australia, could West Indies cricket fans look forward to interesting battles when these two teams meet for two tests, three ODIs and three T20Is in February and March this year? Windies Warriors Supporters’ Club (WWSC), the official supporters’ group …
Week three of this 2023, still relatively new, year was certainly action-packed. Topmost among the week’s events was the much-anticipated announcement of the West Indies squad for its forthcoming Zimbabwe tour, quickly followed by the 2022 T20 World Cup Investigation Committee’s presentation of its Official Report. As evidenced by their announced 15-member squad, CWI Chair …
We are now well into 2023, but despite its CEO’s publicly provided assurances that a robust restrengthening of Caribbean cricket is about to occur this year, the evidence received to date has been that of a continuation of the same old Cricket West Indies (CWI) Comedy Show. Indeed, CWI’s comedic management of West Indies cricket …
