West Indies

Report India captain likely to replace Deepti Sharma at No. 3 on used Seddon Park strip Toss India Women chose to bat against West Indies Women Raj’s opposite number, Stafanie Taylor, too, wanted to bat first, with both teams fielding the same XIs as their previous matches. This means India retain three left-handers in their

When Anisa Mohammed took the ball to deliver the 48th over in England’s chase in their World Cup game against West Indies, she knew her team was going to win. West Indies had just eight runs to defend, and England’s ninth-wicket pair had already plundered 61 runs, but Mohammed, West Indies most expensive frontline bowler

News West Indies spinner will head to Kia Oval after completion of 2022 IPL Sunil Narine will make his first appearance in the Vitality T20 Blast after signing for Surrey. Narine, who will head to London after the completion of his stint at the IPL, played for the Oval-based Invincibles during last year’s Hundred. Narine,

News Nat Sciver, whose 109 off 85 balls went in vain for England against Australia, moved up to No. 6 among batters Australia captain Meg Lanning climbed up two spots to be ranked No. 2 among ODI batters. She is currently just 15 points behind the leader and team-mate Alyssa Healy. Lanning hit 86 in

News Absence of James Anderson and Stuart Broad won’t make hosts complacent, says coach West Indies will be focused on ensuring that their batters grind out enough runs for the bowlers to put England’s revamped Test side under pressure in Antigua, rather than worrying about who is or isn’t in the XI for the tourists.

News Captain wants his players “to prove a point” after turbulent winter for Test side Joe Root has described England’s three-Test series in the Caribbean as a chance “for all of us to prove a point” in the wake of a dismal winter Ashes campaign that led to a round of sackings at the ECB.

News Test greats become legends in their own lifetimes, even as news of Shane Warne’s death casts launch in strange light Ian Botham is sitting next to old friend Viv Richards as they unveil the new Richards-Botham Trophy that England and West Indies will now compete for in Test cricket. And with a press conference,

Kemar Roach, West Indies’ veteran attack leader, believes that the “quite surprising” omissions of James Anderson and Stuart Broad from England’s Test plans give his side a slight advantage going into Tuesday’s first Test, but says that the wickets of Joe Root and Ben Stokes are his team’s truest route to victory in the coming

News “What we need to do is be in that collective in each game, be consistent” Stafanie Taylor has called on West Indies to adapt their style if they are to convert their big-tournament T20 record into 50-over World Cup success. West Indies lost to South Africa by 96 runs and six wickets after winning

Report Wicketkeeper-batter Rashada Williams has a concussion and hence not in the West Indies XI Toss New Zealand chose to bowl vs West Indies Hosts New Zealand handed 17-year-old left-arm spinner Fran Jonas a World Cup debut as they sent West Indies in, in the opening match of the delayed 2022 50-over world event at

News Smriti Mandhana leads Indian batting effort again, just two days after retiring hurt when she was struck by a Shabnim Ismail bouncer India Women 258 (Mandhana 66, Deepti 51, Bhatia 42, Fraser 2-24) beat West Indies Women 177 for 9 (Campbelle 63, Matthews 44, Vastrakar 3-21, Meghna 2-30) by 81 runs India Women beat

News Roston Chase, Rahkeem Cornwall and Shai Hope among those left out John Campbell and Anderson Phillip have been called up to West Indies’ squad for the first Test against England in Antigua next month after bright starts to the regional four-day competition. Campbell, the opening batter who averages 23.70 after 15 Test appearances to

Report India also make four changes, with Gaikwad among those getting a game Toss: West Indies chose to bowl v India West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl against India in the third T20I at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Captain Kieron Pollard said “nothing much had changed” on the surface and that

News “I tried to carry it over, but it won’t go down as a special innings because we didn’t win,” he says Smith had played the first two T20Is of the five-match series. He bowled one over in the first T20I and was not called on to bowl in the second. While batting, he wasn’t

News Experienced spinners Anisa Mohammed and Afy Fletcher among 15-player group Stafanie Taylor has been named captain of West Indies’ 15-player squad for the Women’s World Cup, which begins in New Zealand next month. Taylor recently missed the final match of West Indies’ ODI series in South Africa after sustaining a concussion. Anisa Mohammed, who

Preview With Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant skipping the dead-rubber, India can give a chance to Ruturaj Gaikwad and Shreyas Iyer Big picture India will be mighty pleased with their gains from the 2-0 lead they have over West Indies, in the lead up to the T20 World Cup later this year in Australia. Their

News Rescheduled ODI series will take place immediately after conclusion of IPL West Indies’ postponed ODI series in the Netherlands will start “immediately after the IPL” on May 31, according to a joint press release by CWI and the KNCB. The tour will see West Indies play a full international match on Dutch soil for

Report India retained the winning XI, which meant they continued to trust two swing bowlers – Bhuvneshwar and Chahar Toss: West Indies opt to bowl vs India In his 100th T20 international, a must-win game to stay alive in the series, Kieron Pollard won the toss and elected to field to take advantage of the

News More clarity required against India’s spinners, says the West Indies vice-captain IPL 2021 was ordinary by any standards for Nicholas Pooran. He managed all of 85 runs in 12 innings, including five ducks, for Punjab Kings. Yet, when the fresh auction came around last weekend, Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad

Preview Although they posed a tough challenge to the hosts in the first T20I, West Indies have been let down mainly by their batting Big picture Having sleepwalked their way through the ODIs, West Indies posed a tougher challenge to India in the first T20I, even though they ended up on the losing side. Now,

Report West Indies welcomed back fit-again Kieron Pollard as captain with Roston Chase replacing Holder Toss: India opt to bowl vs West Indies India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and inserted West Indies in the first T20I at Eden Gardens. India handed a debut to 21-year-old legspinner Ravi Bishnoi, pairing him up with senior

For a while when West Indies trained on Tuesday, the men designated to put up sponsor boards around the edges of the first tier above the dressing rooms waited and watched to see if the batters would stop hitting the ball in the direction. After a while, it became amply clear this was part of

Preview With the T20 World Cup later this year, every match and series is an opportunity to finetune preparations Big picture India outclassed West Indies in each of the three ODIs, but the T20I series is expected to be more competitive, given that the shortest format is arguably the one West Indies are at their

News Head coach doesn’t have any quick fixes and admits closing the team’s High Performance Centre is ‘one of the downfalls’ Phil Simmons, the West Indies coach, believes their ODI batting needs quick attention. But he also doesn’t have any quick fixes for after the side slumped to a 3-0 whitewash against India. For now,

Report West Indies, led by Nicholas Pooran once more, brought in Hayden Walsh Jnr for Akeal Hosein India made a host of changes and decided to take up the challenge of batting first, having won the series already. One of the changes was forced: KL Rahul missed out with a niggle. He walked back holding

Report Allrounder Odean Smith replaces West Indies’ regular captain Pollard, who had a niggle overnight Toss: West Indies opt to bowl vs India Nicholas Pooran-led West Indies chose to bowl in what was a must-win for them in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon. Kieron Pollard, West Indies’ regular captain, had a niggle overnight, according to Pooran.

Preview Rahul returns for the hosts, as visitors ponder over lack of contributions from top seven Big picture Since the start of 2019, both India and West Indies have played 47 ODIs, more than any other side. But the results have been vastly divergent, with India winning 27 and losing 19, and West Indies almost

Report Kemar Roach, Fabian Allen and Darren Bravo made comebacks for West Indies, meanwhile Rohit Sharma, India’s new full-time ODI captain, won the toss in their 1000th ODI, and decided to chase, hoping to capitalise on the dew in the evening. India were forced to make changes from their last ODI with injuries and Covid-19

News Shahrukh was originally picked as a reserve player for the T20Is against West Indies Tamil Nadu batter Shahrukh Khan has been added to India’s main squad along with Ishan Kishan for the first ODI against West Indies in Ahmedabad on Sunday. On the eve of the first ODI, India’s white-ball captain Rohit Sharma confirmed

News West Indies captain says getting over jet lag and a quick turnaround after England T20Is will also be challenging It was only less than a week back that West Indies were involved in back-to-back T20Is against England in Barbados with the series delicately poised. A few hours after wrapping up a morale-boosting series win,