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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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 »
The West Indies Selection Panel, chaired by the Rt, Honorable Desmond Haynes, and comprised of fellow Selectors Roland Butcher and Head Coach Daren Sammy, has finally announced the chosen 15-member squad for the forthcoming ODI Home Series against England. Not surprisingly, the squad announcement has been greeted with a very wide range of reactions, from …
Weighing In On The Announced WI England Tour ODI Squad! Read More »
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 …
WI Selectors’ England ODI Series Quandry: Present Or Future Focus? Read More »
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 »
