The way social media was lit up on Friday, May 12, into the next day Saturday and even a full two days later onto Mother’s Day Sunday, you would have believed that Barbados Independence/Republic celebrations, Christmas or some other reason for annual pyrotechnics had come six to seven months early this year! Rather than the …
Eyebrows Raised Over West Indies Squad And Coaching Announcements! Read More »
Questionnable Choices In Announced West Indies A Team Squad. Back in the halcyon days of West Indies cricket, when our teams ruled the international cricket world, it used to be that whenever a squad was selected for an overseas tour there would be at most one or two players whose inclusion would be questionable. Not …
Contentious Choices In Announced West Indies A Team Squad. Read More »
By Tony McWatt Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel has named the fifteenman squad for the West Indies “A” Team tour of Bangladesh. Joshua Da Silva, the West Indies Test wicket-keeper/batter, will captain the team in the three four-day “Test” matches against Bangladesh “A” starting on 16 May. Along with Da Silva, the …
Dubious Choices In Selected West Indies A team Squad To Bangladesh. Read More »
A double-century, a century, two nineties, an eighty-six as well as a pair of additional half-centuries! Those were the very encouraging batting scores emanating from the Team Weekes-WI Academy April 27-29, second match of the ongoing Cricket West Indies (CWI) 2023 inaugural Tri-Series for the Sir Everton Weekes-George Headley trophy. Batting performances which coming …
Encouraging Signs From Weekes-Academy Tri Series Encounter! Read More »
Cricket West Indies 2023 Inaugural Headley Weekes Tri Series has gotten off to a most interesting, if inauspicious, start. The Series’ April 19-22 first match produced the rather surprising, totally unexpected, result of the youthful West Indies Academy achieving a lopsided seven-wicket win over the far more senior and experienced Team Headley. The Academy’s …
Headley Weekes Tri Series Opener’s Unexpected Outcomes! Read More »
Cricket West Indies (CWI) highly commendable extension of this year’s Regional 4Day Championship, the Inaugural Headley Weeks Tri Series, gets underway from April 19 – May 6 at Antigua’s Coolidge Cricket Ground. The Series will involve CWI Senior Men’s Selection Teams, respectively named in honour of George Headley and Sir Everton Weekes, competing against each …
Headley Weekes Tri Series Could Provide Solutions For Selection Dilemmas! Read More »
India’s national cricketers are scheduled to tour the Caribbean this coming July for an extended series of matches, including Tests, ODIs and T20 against hosts West Indies. As it has done for the now better part of the past thirty years, Cricket West Indies (CWI) seems set to yet again miss out completely on the …
CWI Missing Out On North American Target Market! Read More »
With his March 25, 2023, unopposed election as Cricket West Indies (CWI) new President having been secured, Dr Kishore Shallow now faces a very challenging task. That of restoring some semblance of meaningful improvement to the current sad state of West Indies cricket. As he goes about his presidential duties, Dr Shallow should seriously consider …
Dr Kishore Shallow’s impending tenure as the next Cricket West Indies (CWI) President is set to commence after the organization’s March 25, 2023, Annual General Meeting. When it does it will be under very thick prevailing clouds of scepticism over just how effective his tenure at CWI’s helm will turn out to be. Dr Shallow …
Scepticism Clouds Surround Dr Shallow’s CWI Presidency! Read More »
The West Indies Test tour to South Africa having ended in yet another overseas Series loss there were, however, some takeaways from the two matches played. These can, hopefully, be used as guidelines for the now still drastically required improvements to the team’s future performances! The primary difference maker, and ultimate determining factor for the …
West Indies 0-2 South Africa Series Loss Takeaways! Read More »
