Foo terror for South Africa
Enter Jonathan Foo, the 19-year-old cricketer who can hit a ball as hard as anybody alive.
Legend has it that when Ellis Edgar “Puss “ Achong, the first and only West Indian cricketer of Chinese descent to play for the regional team bowled an English batsman in 1934, the said Englishman was heard to mutter on [...]
Cricinfo All Star All-Time West Indies Team
From Cricinfo staff
Five players from the all-star West Indies stars of the Eighties have made it to Cricinfo’s West
Indies all-time TEST XI. Read more….
Five players from the all-star West Indies sides of the 80s have made it to
Cricinfo’s West Indies all-time Test XI: Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards, Curtly
Ambrose, Michael Holding and Malcolm Marshall.
Viv Richards was [...]
Calypso cricket vs Reggae on Wednesday
The local boys will have to play harder at home to Jamaica in the Caribbean T20 championships
Trinidad and Tobago, reigning T20 cricket champions, will have to scale another hurdle in defence of their title in their bid for another birth in the Airtel T20 championships, when they meet Zone A leaders Jamaica in the [...]
Ambassadors Crawfie, Ganga
His Excellency Hasely Crawford!
His Excellency Daren Ganga.
Both sports heroes have been elevated by the new Government to the level of Sports Ambassadors with Ganga, who has led the national cricket team with distinction over the past several years, being given the added assignment of helping bolster the country’s economic profile in some of the cricketing [...]
Humble Pip, a portrait of Phil Simmons
by Jamie Alter, Cricinfo, talking to former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop
The very first player of note who made an impression on me….Read more….
The very first player of note who made an impression on me was former West
Indian allrounder Phil Simmons.
When I first met Phil, around 1983-84, he was not yet an international player
but [...]
Sarwan upbeat about Windies’ chances in World T20
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Ramnaresh Sarwan hopes home advantage will give West Indies the edge….Read more….
From Cricinfo
Ramnaresh Sarwan hopes home advantage will give West Indies the edge in the ICC
World Twenty20 beginning on Friday. West Indies have yet to win a multi-team
competition since 2004, when they won the Champions Trophy in England, and after
six tumultuous years Sarwan said the [...]
Pollard lights up IPL T20
An outrageous scoop shot over the wicketkeeper for six. Kieron Pollard’s brilliant all round show earns him Man of the Match award.
Trinidad and Tobago big-hitting all rounder Kieron Pollard, derided by some as an unvarnished “vooper”, is demonstrating in the Indian Premier League T20 competition that he is worth every penny of his US $750,000 [...]
Adrian Barath shines in Punjab Kings victory
by Kanishkaa Balachandran, Cricinfo
Mumbai Indians were just a win away from reaching the semi-final. Read more….
Mumbai Indians were just a win away from reaching the semi-final, but their
progress hit a stumbling block following their second consecutive scratchy
batting performance, this time against an inspired Kings XI Punjab in Mohali.
Punjab were assisted by a slow pitch and [...]
Injured Fidel Edwards in limbo
From Cricinfo
Ottis Gibson, the West Indies coach, has said that he will not rush injured Fidel Edwards back
into action….Read more….
Ottis Gibson, the West Indies coach, has said that he will not rush injured
Fidel Edwards back into action because he doesn’t want to put the fast bowler’s
“whole career at risk”. Edwards is recovering from recent back [...]
‘Alec Bedser who taught you to bowl Australia’-Lord Kitchener
From Cricinfo
Sir Alec Bedser 1918-2010
Mickey Stewart, the former Surrey captain, has described Sir Alec Bedser….Read more….
Mickey Stewart, the former Surrey captain, has described Sir Alec Bedser, who
died on Sunday evening at the age of 91, as the “typical traditional English
professional cricketer”.
“This is obviously a very sad day for me and everybody who has been associated
with [...]