Visiting fans coming to the Kensington Oval in June for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and the nine matches that Barbados is hosting – including the finals – will see the new statue of Former West Indies cricketer Sir Charles (“Charlie”) Griffith! The statue was unveiled on Monday, March 25, 2024 during a ceremony …
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MARCH 2024 LAURELS: Five well deserving laurels awards in this Wickets March 2024 Issue. Only two darts found worth of being thrown. Sir Andy Roberts for taking time from his always busy daily schedule to watch the young, ninteteen-year-old aspiring pacer Isai Thorne perform at the Coolidge Cricket Ground during the Guyana Harpy Eagle match …
By David Jackson The 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will be the 9th edition of the biennial T20 international tournament. This year the tournament is scheduled to be co-hosted by the West Indies and the United States, from June 1 to June 29 this year. England are the defending champions, having defeated Pakistan in …
This 2024 March month has been marked by more than its fair share of manifested misdemeanors regarding West Indies cricket. So much so that the soul of the long-departed internationally regarded doyen of Caribbean cricket writers, Tony Cozier, whose ninth death anniversary will be on May 11 of this year, must now be giddy from …
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Having had his contract as a member of the West Indies Senior Men’s Cricket Team Selection Panel not renewed by his former employers, Cricket West Indies, Roland Butcher has demonstrated his continuing interest in Caribbean cricket with the development of a comprehensive twentypoint strategic plan. The purpose of which, in Butcher’s own words, is to …
Clocked at having bowled a 147 kilometers delivery as the fastest of the entire 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup Qualifiers, that was played in Dubai, Guyana-born Jeremy Gordon, is today at times still just as quick as he was back then. Born, January 20, 1987 in New Amsterdam Berbice, the now 37-year …
The West Indies will begin their quest for an unprecedented third ICC T20 World Cup matches on June 2nd against Papua New Guinea, an opening fixture that will be followed a week later with a June 8 second match encounter against Uganda. Both matches will be played at Guyana’s Providence Stadiumthat every ODI match is …
23-year-old Kittian Cricketer and Under 19 player, Mikyle Louis became the talk of the Caribbean by scoring back to- back centuries during the opening round Leeward Islands Hurricanes versus Guyana Harpy Eagles fixture of the 2024 West Indies Regional Cricket Championship held at Warner Park, St Kitts and Nevis. On debut, Louis scored two consecutive …
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Numerous deserving candidates to choose from for this month’s Laurels. Thankfully, however, not nearly as many contenders worthy of darts. Roland Butcher, for his most timely release of a twenty-point Strategic Plan targeted toward the restoration of the West Indies cricket team’s long lost international stature. Butcher’s plan brilliantly outlines all the strategic initiatives that …
The West Indies T20I Selection Panel, comprised as it is currently of Chairman the Rt Honourable Sesomong Haynes and Head Coach Daren Sammy, appears to be mired in stubborn blindness. That’s the only plausible explanation for the Panel’s inclusion of Kyle Mayers, Roston Chase and arguably even Johnson Charles in their chosen West Indies fifteen-member …
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