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2024 T20 WC Countdown; The Canadians Are Coming – One To Watch Aaron Johnson!

Canada will commence its first-ever T20 World Cup campaign with the 2024 competition’s opening fixture, a Saturday, June 1 encounter against archrivals and neighboring tournament co-hosts the United States. One of the Canadian players who should be exciting to watch will be the belligerent opening batter, Jamaicanborn, Aaron Johnson. 51, 84, 109*, 0, 1, 89, …

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2024 ICC T20 World Cup Countdown: Caribbean Match Venues – Antigua’a Sir Viv Richards Stadium!

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 …

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Wickets December 2023 Laurels

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 …

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Wickets December Darts!

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 …

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Two Steps Forward; Four Backward, West Indies Cricket Epitomized!

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 …

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Isai Thorne: Already Raising Eyebrows With Potential For A Very Bright Future!

Born September 23, 2004 and now still only in his nineteenth year, Isai Thorne has already been raising eyebrows and creating hopes for his emergence as the next genuinely quick West Indies fast bowler. Having made his first-class debut most recently against the touring Emerging Ireland, Thorne has already started to evoke similar age comparisons …

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Berbice Cricket Board November Quick Pitch One To Watch: Johnathan Rampersaud!

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club’s lefthanded batter and crafty off-spinner was born at the Woodlands Hospital in Georgetown on November 6, 2003, and is the only child of Charran and Rohanie Rampersaud. “I went to RHTYSC and watched the bigger guys practicing. I fell in love with the practice and started going …

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Dr. Joseph “Reds” Perreira. UG Honorary Doctorate For Reds!

Veteran Caribbean Cricket Commentator Joseph “Reds” Perreira has been included as one of ten Guyanese to be conferred with the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy Degree from the University of Guyana as part of its 60th Anniversary celebrations. Reds along with his fellow recipients Baroness Valerie Amos, actress CCH Pounder, cricketer Rohan Kanhai, Keith Waite, Bernadette …

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Hayley Matthews Deserves A Barbados National Achievement Award!

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. …

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