The 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League ended most fittingly with its two best teams the defending champions Guyana Amazon Warriors and three times finalists St Lucia Kings contesting the final. As poetic justice would have it the Kings silenced the 20,000 predominantly ‘Warrior Nation” home crowd to clinch the title. It was an enthralling …
Reflections On the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League! Read More »
The West Indies three Tests series against their English hosts ended, predictably some would suggest, in a 3-0 whitewash in favour of the homesters. The Caribbean side was condemned to a 3-0 sweep in the series after they lost the third and final Test against the English by 10 wickets at Edgbaston. They also lost …
The 2024 Caribbean Regional 4Day Championships entered its seventh and final round with four matches being played from April 17-20. The highly competitive tournament, by far the closet within recent years, entered its final week wth four of the five participating teams well-positioned to emerge as champions. At the final round’s commencement the Windwards Volcanoes …
A Most Encouraging 2024 Regional 4Day Tournament! Read More »
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 …
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 …
Seletors’ Stubborness Threatening West Indies’ T20 World Cup Title Hopes! Read More »
CWI should now be pursuing the creation of a movie-sized, Hayley Matthews landscape poster depicting her astronomical rise as a world-famous, impressively wealthy, Women’s professional cricketer. The poster, to be hung on walls in schools throughout the Caribbean, should chronicle the highlights of Matthews’ evolving cricket career. From the time when as an eleven-year-old she …
Make Hayley Matthews’ West Indies Cricket’s Poster Girl! Read More »
Now that this year’s 2023 Caribbean Premier League has been concluded the focus for all involved with West Indies cricket must be immediately shifted to next year’s ICC T20 World Cup. Specifically, plans must be put in place for the West Indies to fully capitalize on its World Cup home-court advantage by winning the title …
WI Win T20 2024 World Cup Planning Must Start Now! Read More »
The West Indies’ recent triumphant 3-2 T20 series victory over visiting India was greeted with joy throughout the Caribbean and even further beyond to the diaspora as well. The long-awaited series triumph, over the much higher ICCranked opponent India, has also created hopes of the West Indies emerging as champions when the 2024 T20 World …
Winning Next Year’s 2024 T20 World Cup Should Now Be The Plan! Read More »
Having celebrated its 50th Anniversary this past July 4, 2023, Caricom’s leaders have announced their intention to become more directly involved in West Indies cricket. An announcement that has been received as sweet music to the ears of very many West Indies cricket fans. On and off the field of play, West Indies cricket has …
Successive losses, first to Zimbabwe followed by the previously unthinkable submission to the Netherlands, 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 Qualifier’s Super Six competition, …
