West Indies

News Head coach Phil Simmons will take temporary charge of selection responsibilities, along with the team’s captains in the various formats Roger Harper‘s two-year term as West Indies’ chairman of selectors will be coming to an end on December 31 with the board unwilling to renew his contract. Having taken up the job in late

Report Visitors hand left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie international debut Toss West Indies chose to bat vs Pakistan West Indies captain Nicholas Pooran won the toss and opted to bat first in the third and final T20I in Karachi. The visitors handed left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie an international debut, while Darren Bravo returned to the side

News CWI and PCB to hold meeting to determine fate of tour after all remaining touring party members have been tested again West Indies’ tour of Pakistan is uncertain to continue, with five more members of the touring party testing positive for Covid-19. The five include players Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, and Justin Greaves, alongwith

Preview Despite a number of positive tests in the West Indies camp, the tour is expected to go on as scheduled Big Picture West Indies will come into this T20I series hurting from how their title defence went at the T20 World Cup a month ago. They’ll have more than just hurt to deal with,

News The trio, along with a non-coaching member, will be unavailable for the T20I leg of the Pakistan tour Sheldon Cottrell, Roston Chase and Kyle Mayers are among four members of the West Indies touring party who have tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Pakistan on December 9. The trio, along with a non-coaching

News Head coach Walsh said the transition period in Oman was “mentally taxing” after the World Cup qualifier was called off The West Indies women have been cleared to fly home on Friday after an 11-day quarantine in Oman. The contingent was stranded in Oman since the ICC called off the women’s World Cup qualifier

News The series will comprise three ODIs and a one-off T20I, all at Sabina Park West Indies men will play three ODIs and a T20I against Ireland in Jamaica from January 8 to 16, CWI has announced, with the possibility that the standalone T20I will be used as a farewell match for Chris Gayle. While

News Powell added to T20I squad, Thomas named ODI replacement Kieron Pollard will not travel to Pakistan for the ODI and T20I series tour that starts next week after failing to recover from a hamstring injury that he picked up at the T20 World Cup. In his absence, Nicholas Pooran will be T20I captain and

Report Blackwood fell in the last over before lunch after he’d batted out 23 overs with Bonner West Indies 253 and 65 for 2 (Bonner 22*) trail Sri Lanka 204 and 345 for 9 declared (Dhananjaya 155*, Permaul 3-106) by 232 runs Tasked with seeing out at least 93 overs to save the second Test

Report Chase struck off the last ball before lunch to yank West Indies back into a good position Sri Lanka 204 and 151 for 4 (Nissanka 66, Dhananjaya 45*) lead West Indies 253 (Brathwaite 72, Mendis 6-70) by 102 runs Veerasammy Permaul removed Charith Asalanka in an otherwise quiet first hour, Pathum Nissanka and Dhananjaya

News “If people who have a platform and who are able to reach out and get people to listen and understand say nothing, then who will?” West Indies bowling great Michael Holding wants more sportspeople to step forward and speak out against racism because they have an important platform, he said in an interview at

News West Indies captain wants his batters to ‘be clear about whether you’re playing forward or back’ Defend a lot. Be clear on whether you’re playing back or forward. And stick around for a couple of sessions. This is West Indies’ batting game-plan for the second Test according to captain Kraigg Brathwaite. With the surface

News West Indies batter says if they can keep Dimuth Karunaratne to low scores, they take substantial steps to winning the second Test Be precise and decisive with your footwork against spin. Oh, and don’t drop catches off Dimuth Karunaratne. Nkrumah Bonner, who top-scored for West Indies with 68 not out off 220 said the

News Greaves, Brooks, Motie, Smith and Drakes earn maiden call-ups as West Indies rest several senior players  ESPNcricinfo Ltd A CWI statement confirmed that while Holder missed out because of “workload management”, Fabian Allen and Obed McCoy are out because of injuries, and Lewis, Hetmyer, Russell and Lendl Simmons were unavailable because of personal reasons.

News Balbirnie to open with Stirling, Getkate and McClintock recalled to add middle-order power Ireland have left Kevin O’Brien out of their T20 squad for upcoming tours to USA and West Indies. O’Brien, 37, opened for Ireland during a disappointing T20 World Cup campaign in which they failed to qualify for the Super 12s. Having

News He was fielding at short leg when a pull from Karunaratne struck the front of his helmet West Indies debutant Jeremy Solozano was taken off the field on a stretcher and transferred to a hospital from the Galle Stadium in an ambulance for scans, after being hit on the helmet while fielding at short

News Former West Indies batter will work in the upcoming high performance camp as preparation for the Under-19 World Cup next year Former West Indies batter Shivnarine Chanderpaul will join the West Indies Under-19s squad as a batting consultant for the upcoming high performance camp in Antigua in preparation for the World Cup to be

Report Chasing 154, Pakistan were 111 for 5 at one stage but lost their last five wickets for five runs West Indies Women 153 (Dottin 34, Matthews 26, Fatima Sana 2-19, Amin 2-21, Sohail 2-25) beat Pakistan Women 116 (Sohail 27, Javeria 24, Matthews 4-26, Connell 3-18) Hayley Matthews‘ all-round show gave West Indies Women

News West Indies allrounder available for entire 2022 campaign, having helped Bears to quarter-finals last season Carlos Brathwaite will return to Birmingham Bears as the team’s overseas T20 player and captain for next year’s Vitality Blast. Brathwaite, the West Indies allrounder who has previously captained his country in T20Is and the Patriots in the CPL,

Report Hayley Matthews chipped in with a fifty and three wickets as Pakistan fell 46 runs short of their target West Indies 253 for 8 (Dottin 132, Matthews 57, Amin 5-35) beat Pakistan 208 for 9 (Riaz 46, Matthews 3-31) by 46 runs A 146-ball 132 from Deandra Dottin and an all-round display from Hayley

Designated captain Javeria Khan, pacer Diana Baig and spin-bowling allrounder Nida Dar has been ruled out of Pakistan’s first ODI against West Indies scheduled for Monday, hindering their preparations ahead of the 2022 ODI World Cup global Qualifier slated to take place in Zimbabwe from November 21. In Javeria’s absence, Sidra Nawaz has been named

News All signs pointed to this, as he walked off to special applause and hugs after scoring a nine-ball 15 against Australia at the Men’s T20 World Cup Is this the last time we will see Chris Gayle in action in international cricket? As Gayle trudged off at the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi,

News “I want to give thanks to actually be standing here today, aged 42 still going strong” Has he played his last game for West Indies or has he not? Chris Gayle hasn’t answered that question definitively yet, but he hopes he’ll get to play a farewell game in front of his home crowd in

News The West Indies allrounder has indicated he would like to get into a coaching role in the future Dwayne Bravo will no longer represent West Indies in T20Is – the only format he was playing at the international level – but he will continue to ply his trade in T20 leagues. “I will continue

Report Mitchell Marsh hit a quick 53 after Kieron Pollard and Andre Russell pushed West Indies to 157 As the sun set on the T20 empire of West Indies, a team full of T20 greats, one all-time great in the opposition, David Warner, played a memorable knock to make a potentially tricky target look easy.

Preview West Indies are eliminated but could still cause problems for the contenders – South Africa will certainly hope they do Big picture Group 1 now looks significantly different than it did a couple of days ago. Australia hold the aces in terms of booking a semi-final position in what is a two-horse race with

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News Allrounder says “the time has come” after defending champions miss out on semi-final spot Dwayne Bravo has confirmed that he will retire from international cricket after the conclusion of West Indies’ T20 World Cup campaign. Bravo, 38, came out of retirement in 2019 to aid West Indies’ defence of the T20 title they won

News Rahkeem Cornwall and Shannon Gabriel included, but Kieran Powell, Alzarri Joseph miss out West Indies have named uncapped opener Jeremy Solozano in a 15-man squad for their Test tour of Sri Lanka later this month. Allrounder Rahkeem Cornwall was also back in contention while veteran quick Shannon Gabriel was fit to return after a

News All games will be played in Karachi, with the ODIs part of the World Super League cycle leading up to the 2023 World Cup West Indies have finalised the dates for their white-ball tour of Pakistan, which will see them play three T20Is and as many ODIs between Dec 13 and 22. All the