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 …
One step forward but four backward, that would now seem to be the lament of West Indies cricket fans following the recent T20I choices made by the Selection channel both before and during the current home series against the touring England. Just six months before the Caribbean is scheduled to joint host the ICC 2024 …
Two Steps Forward; Four Backward, West Indies Cricket Epitomized! Read More »
The West Indies – England December 3-9, 2023 One Day International Series (ODI) ended with the hosts winning by a margin of 2-1. The West Indies won the first and third matches of the series, while their English visitors claimed the second. The series victory against England was the first for the West Indies in …
West Indies – England 2023 ODI Series Takeaways. Read More »
By Tony McWatt West Indies cricket’s November 2023 news headlines were dominated by the Selectors’ controversial decision to exclude Darren Bravo from its announced fifteen-member squad to face the touring English team in a December month three-match ODI series. Bravo’s emergence as the leading scorer in the recently concluded 2023 Caribbean Regional Super50 tournament proved …
Has Corporate Caribbean Failed West Indies Cricket? Read More »
Having qualified for the West Indies-USA jointly hosted ICC 2024 T20 World Cup, for the very first time in its illustrious history, Canada’s Men’s cricket team will be intending to be competitive in each of their tournament appearances. One of the key players likely to influence their success will be the captain Saad Bin Zafar. …
ICC 2024 WC Countdown: The Canadians Are Coming! One To Watch Saad Bin Zafar! Read More »
