This 2024 March month has been marked by more than its fair share of manifested misdemeanors regarding West Indies cricket. So much so that the soul of the long-departed internationally regarded doyen of Caribbean cricket writers, Tony Cozier, whose ninth death anniversary will be on May 11 of this year, must now be giddy from …
Misdemeanour Full March Month For West Indies Cricket! Read More »
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 »
West Indies Aussie Test Series Batting Averages K Sinclair M I N0 Runs HS Avg 1 2 1 64 50 64.00 KSA McKenzie M I NO Rus HS Avg. 2 4 0 138 50 34.50 KAR Hodge M I NO Runs HS Avg. 2 4 0 115 71 28.75 S Joseph M I NO Runs …
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By Tony McWatt Having defeated reigning T20 World Cup champions England in their recent home series, the West Indies will be traveling Down Under to take on the Aussies in an equally important three-match series. A series that should rightfully be used by the West Indies team management as a dress rehearsal for the Caribbean’s …
Australia T20 Series Must Serve As World Cup Dress Rehearsal! Read More »
West Indies left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein benefitted from strong performances in the deciding fifth Twenty20 International (T20I) against England at Trinidad’s Brian Lara Cricket Academy. Led by Hosein and his left-arm spinning sidekick Gudaksh Motie, the West Indies claimed the T20I series 3-2 with a four-wicket win in the final match, largely on the back …
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, …
2024 T20 WC Countdown; The Canadians Are Coming – One To Watch Aaron Johnson! Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
By David Jackson West Indies ended the year 2023 rather well with a solid and satisfying 3-2 T201 series win over England. This followed an ODI series win also against England, just prior to the T201 series, and a T201 series win against India, in August. In Tests the series win by West Indies in …
West Indies Cricket 2023: the Good, Bad And Soetimes Ugly! Read More »
