Successive losses, first to Zimbabwe followed two days later by the previously unthinkable submission to the Netherlands, have all but scuttled the West Indies hopes of qualifying for the ICC 2023 World Cup to be played in India this coming October-November. The losses left the West Indies with zero carryover points heading into the Zimbabwe …
The Lowest Of Lows: World Cup Qualification Now Highly Unlikely! Read More »
The official schedule for India’s 2023 Caribbean Tour has finally been realized. The tour will be comprised of two Tests, three ODI’s, and five T20Is. The two Tests, to be played in Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago respectively, will mark the commencement of both the West Indies and India’s participation in the International Cricket Council …
Definitive 2Yr Test Plan Needed For West Indies. Read More »
The confusion and controversy that has been affecting West Indies cricket for ever so long can now officially be regarded as plague worthy. Obviously confused, clueless, Selectors sending an opening batsman to replace an injured spinner for a World Cup qualification tournament, as well as highly controversial choices of several general practitioners for highly specialized …
Confusion And Controversy Now Plaguing West Indies Cricket! Read More »
The West Indies A Team concluded its May 17 – June 2, 2023, Bangladesh Tour with a one-win, two draws victorious record. Apart from the most welcome, highly encouraging, overall victory the series has also provided the West Indies Test Selectors with some extremely useful pointers. Such pointers which it is now hoped will be …
Some Very Useful A Team Bangladesh Tour Pointers. Read More »
Just over a year and five months into his appointment as West Indies Lead Selector, the honeymoon period of favourable fan and followers reactions to teams chosen by West Indies Lead Selector the Rt, Honourable Desmond Haynes and his Panel has ended. On January 6, 2022, Cricket West Indies (CWI) named Haynes to take over …
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 »
