West Indies

As Australia aims for a 5-0 sweep in the home portion of the 2023-24 season, the weather poses a potential obstacle, with rain forecasted. The first Test in Adelaide ended early, and Australia's dominance with the pink ball puts West Indies in a challenging position. The weather may impact Australia's World Test Championship points if the match ends in a draw. In the Adelaide Test, debutants Shamar Joseph and Justin Greaves impressed, keeping West Indies competitive until Travis Head's impactful century turned the

West Indies allrounder Raymon Reifer has received clearance to resume bowling slower balls and cutters after being suspended from using those deliveries in October 2023. Remedial footage of his action was sent to Loughborough University, which had previously deemed his action illegal during a domestic match in October. Reifer, now cleared to bowl his variations, has been included in Barbados' squad for the first three matches of the upcoming West Indies Championship, their premier first-class tournament starting in early February. In October 2023,

CWI and T20 World Cup CEO: Navigating Challenges for a Pioneering 2024 Tournament The forthcoming men's T20 World Cup in 2024 is poised to be a groundbreaking event with an ambitious goal of expansion. Boasting a record 20 participating teams, it stands as the most extensive field in the history of cricket World Cups. Notably, the inclusion of the USA as one of the host nations adds a significant layer to this cricketing spectacle, strategically tapping into what the ICC identifies as a

West Indies vs Ireland: Emerging Cricket Showdown ,Cricket enthusiasts can look forward to an exciting two-match unofficial Test series between West Indies Emerging and Ireland Emerging, commencing on Saturday, November 25, at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua. Nyeem Young and Stephen Doheny will lead the West Indies and Irish Emerging teams, respectively. The West Indies Emerging side emerged victorious in the recently concluded three-match One Day series with a 2-1 win. Most players in the Caribbean squad were from the West Indies

“Satisfied” with how the opening day went, hosts West Indies hope to utilise the new ball and get early breakthroughs on Friday, said assistant coach Kenny Benjamin. Opting to bowl, the hosts had an under-par morning session but staged a fightback. They struck four times, limiting India to 288/4 on Thursday. “We were a little bit disappointed that we didn’t pick up a wicket or two till lunch but then we did well to get four wickets,” Benjamin said after the end of

West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard announced his retirement from international cricket on Wednesday, calling time on a career which saw him feature more than 200 times across one-day and Twenty20 internationals. Pollard, 34, played 123 ODIs and 101 T20s for West Indies since making his debut in 2007, scoring 4,275 runs and taking 97 wickets in total. The Trinidadian all-rounder was part of the team that won the T20 World Cup in 2012. He led West Indies 61 times in the two

Dubai: A resilient UAE team is on the threshold of history after living up to their promise in the Under-19 ICC World Cup as they take on Ireland in the Plate final on Monday. Coach Najeeb Amar had forewarned that they will cause an upset before the start of the tournament. Now the team have proved his words after defeating West Indies in the Plate semi-finals despite being hampered by loss of three players due to Covid. “I was confident that we would

Defending champions West Indies were eliminated from the semi-final race in the T20 World Cup after a 20-run loss to Sri Lanka on Thursday as their ageing stars failed to recreate the magic of the past. Defending champions West Indies were eliminated from the semi-final race in the T20 World Cup after a 20-run loss to Sri Lanka on Thursday as their ageing stars failed to recreate the magic of the past. Going into the game with two losses in three games, the

Rahkeem Cornwall blasted a maiden Test half-century and dominated an eighth-wicket partnership of 90 with Joshua da Silva to lift the West Indies to 268 for eight in their first innings, a lead of 99 runs, at the close of the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Monday. Outstanding seam bowling by Suranga Lakmal, who claimed his fourth five-wicket innings haul in 64 Tests, had restricted the home side to 171

Kieron Pollard struck six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' extraordinary six-wicket Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka. West Indies captain Pollard became only the third man to strike six maximums in an international. In his previous over, Dananjaya had removed Evin Lewis, Chris Gayle and Nicholas Pooran. West Indies chased their target of 132 in 13.1 overs in Antigua. The tourists had been restricted to 131-9 before the drama really began. In the

Opener Chris Gayle is set to play his first match for West Indies in two years after he and veteran fast bowler Fidel Edwards were recalled for the three-match home Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka next week. Opener Chris Gayle is set to play his first match for West Indies in two years after he and veteran fast bowler Fidel Edwards were recalled for the three-match home Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka next week. Former captain Gayle last played for West Indies in

Test cricket is set to resume for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, with England and the West Indies tonight playing the first of three Tests at Southampton's Rose Bowl.  The series will be seen as something of a benchmark for cricket bodies around the world as a way to get the sport underway again in a viable manner as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world. However, to get the Tests played at all, a number of compromises

Michael Holding, the broadcaster and former West Indies fast bowler, has said the decisions of Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul to opt out of touring England were "unfortunate", if understandable because of concerns over the Covid-19 situation in the UK. Earlier this week, West Indies announced a 25-man party to travel for three rearranged Tests against England next month. CWI had previously given guarantees that players would not be forced to go on the tour if they were not comfortable with

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has given its approval in principle for a test series in England, the body said on Friday. West Indies had been scheduled to visit England for three tests in June but the tour was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is now looking at hosting the series in July. “CWI … received and reviewed detailed plans for players and staff to be kept in a bio-secure environment for the duration of

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo hailed teammate Andre Russell as the 'best in the world' in the T20I format and stated the side's mission to regain their dominance in the shortest format. Two-time ICC Men's T20 World Cup champions West Indies have been slightly off-colour in the shortest format. Prior to the series in Sri Lanka, they'd lost series against Afghanistan, India and were only able to draw one against Ireland. Bravo, returning to the national T20I set-up for the first time since

The India vs West Indies 2019 limited-overs series to be played in December will be Team India's final cricketing engagement this year. The BCCI announced the T20I and ODI squads for the upcoming limited-overs series starting December 6. The teams will play a three-match T20I series followed by a three-match ODI series. The T20I games will be played on December 6, 8 and 11. That will be followed by the three-match ODI with matches on December 15, 18 and 22.  Meanwhile, there are

When Kieron Pollard is playing on the ground, you can always expect some fun on the pitch. Be it with the bat, with the ball or in the field, Pollard manages to grab the eyeballs every time he plays.  His recent exploit came in the third and the final ODI against Afghanistan in the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.  The incident happened in the 25th over of the Afghanistan innings when Pollard rather hilariously pulled out off

West Indian batsman and T20 cricket legend Chris Gayle received an award of 220,770 Dollars from the Australian court over an alleged incident. During the 2015 Cricket World Cup, an Australian media company ‘Fairfax’ had alleged Chris Gayle of exposing himself to the masseuse. The court relieved Gayle from the allegation and awarded him the compensation for his defamation. The issue first arose when The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times published articles in January 2016 which pointed towards Gayle’s

The international cricket season in full bloom right now. England and Sri Lanka, India and Australia, Bangladesh and the West Indies and Pakistan and New Zealand are all engaged in battles in different formats of the game. By the end of the year, more important tours and matches would have commenced. As so many teams battle it out, there will be a lot of records and landmarks achieved. Here is a look at five interesting approaching milestones in international cricket. Shikhar Dhawan approaching

Pakistan’s phenomenal 4-run loss to New Zealand in the 1st Test was one of the Test wins in history. It will be talked about for months. A thrilling Test match that had the fans rooted till the very end. Throughout Test history, there have been similar Tests which have gone down to the wire and ended with unexpected results. Here is a look at the five closest Test victories in terms of runs. West Indies beat Australia by 1 run, Adelaide, 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HezgwT8fBU In