West Indies

While Bangladesh are down on confidence, West Indies are bursting with it according to their coach Phil Simmons who now wants his team to continue this progress for the rest of the World Test Championship cycle. “Everyone has seen [Brathwaite’s] determination,” Simmons said. “His unique style. He doesn’t have a problem doing his job for

In a rare show of emotion, Kraigg Brathwaite slammed the bat on the pitch after getting out for 94. The Khaled Ahmed delivery had surprised him by keeping low as it hit him on the pads Jermaine Blackwood tried to convince him to take the review but Brathwaite knew what had happened. Replays confirmed that

The three teams for a Women’s Caribbean Premier League, set to run concurrently with the men’s CPL, have been drafted. Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders will be captained by Hayley Matthews, Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin respectively. The teams were drafted from a pool of players put together by Cricket West

Roach will lead the West Indies pace attack, which also has Alzarri Joseph, Jayden Seales, Raymon Reifer and newcomer Anderson Phillip. He was part of West Indies’ last Test series against England in March at home, which the hosts won 1-0. He finished the series as his side’s joint-highest wicket-taker along with Seales, taking 11

Nicholas Pooran, West Indies’ white-ball captain, has expressed disappointment at his recent patchy form with the bat in ODI cricket, but hopes that a turnaround could ease the burden on Shai Hope and usher the team to “something special”. In six innings in Netherlands and Pakistan, Pooran managed just 81 runs at an average of

Jason Holder will miss Bangladesh’s tour of West Indies, having been granted his request for a period of rest and recovery. He was not part of the 12-man squad named by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the first Test of that tour, which starts on June 16. Kemar Roach is also not part of this

The intense Multan heat has been a major talking point ahead of the Pakistan vs West Indies ODI series. The games are set to start at 4pm local time to counter the weather conditions, but with West Indies desperate to win more World Cup Super League games, Nicholas Pooran doesn’t want to focus on uncontrollables,

West Indies 308 for 5 (Mayers 120, Brooks 101*) beat Netherlands 288 (O’Dowd 89, Vikramjit 54, Lewis 3-67) by 20 runs Netherlands began slowly but Vikramjit took on Mayers in the seventh over and found boundaries more often subsequently. He was dropped on 33 by Brooks in the 10th over and helped himself to three

Rovman Powell and Romario Shepherd will miss the ongoing three-match ODI series in the Netherlands because of visa delays, Cricket West Indies (CWI) said in a statement on Friday. Both Powell and Shepherd immediately travelled to London from India after their participation in the IPL, as their visa interviews could not have taken place in

Brandon King had originally started as a middle-order batter for Jamaica and after having two productive first-class seasons, he was picked for a similar middle-order role in the West Indies A side in August 2019. King had also begun his CPL career in the middle order for St Kitts & Nevis Patriots, but in 2019,

West Indies 217 for 5 (King 91*, Carty 43*, de Leede 2-46) beat Netherlands 214 (Edwards 68, O’Dowd 51, Hosein 4-39) by five wickets Brandon King and Keacy Carty‘s career-best efforts of 91 not out and 43 not out, respectively, in an unbeaten 118-run stand for the sixth wicket, rescued West Indies from 99 for

The first qualifying event for the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup will commence in Europe in June, the ICC announced on Tuesday. The 2024 World Cup, to be held in the West Indies and the USA, will have a record 20 teams participating. Twelve teams will get automatic qualification, while the remaining eight spots will

David Holford, former West Indies allrounder, has died in Barbados, his homeland, at the age of 82. Reports indicate he was ailing for some time. He was a legspinner and lower-middle-order batter who featured for West Indies in 24 Tests between 1966 and 1977, picking up 51 wickets and scoring 768 runs with a hundred

West Indies 249 for 3 (Hope 119, Brooks 60, King 59*) beat Netherlands 240 for 7 (Nidamanuru 58, Vikramjit Singh 47, Hosein 2-29, Mayers 2-50) by seven wickets Shai Hope‘s 11th ODI century studded West Indian domination in the first of three ODIs against Netherlands in Amstelveen. On a blustery day with sheets of rain

Nicholas Pooran, West Indies’ new white-ball captain, has said he will be an “instinctive” leader ahead of his first assignment in the role on a permanent basis, a three-match ODI series against Netherlands in Amsterdam starting on Tuesday. Pooran, 26, has previously captained West Indies in two ODIs and eight T20Is and Guyana Amazon Warriors

Ramnaresh Sarwan, the former West Indies captain, has relinquished his role as selector of the men’s senior and junior panel with immediate effect due to personal reasons. The resignation comes just five months into a term that was set to run until the middle of 2024. Robert Haynes, the former legspinner who currently serves as

Teja Nidamanuru, an allrounder who has featured for Auckland in the past, and batter Antonius Staal, who has played 14 T20Is but never an ODI, have been included in Netherlands’ squad for their upcoming home ODI series at home against West Indies. Left out, for reasons not disclosed, was veteran Stephan Myburgh, who made a

Kieron Pollard will play county cricket for the first time in more than a decade this summer after signing for Surrey for the Vitality Blast, where he will link up with his close friend and compatriot Sunil Narine. ESPNcricinfo revealed last month that Pollard had been approached by multiple counties after his international retirement to

Shimron Hetmyer has not made an international appearance since the T20 World Cup last year, but West Indies remain hopeful that he will make himself available for future tours. Hetmyer has missed all of West Indies’ bilateral series in the last six months, either because of personal reasons or on fitness grounds. He has returned

Shimron Hetmyer, who recently became a parent, has rejoined Rajasthan Royals and will be available for selection for their final league match, on May 20 against Chennai Super Kings. Hours after scoring a high-impact 16-ball 31 in the victory against Punjab Kings on May 8, Hetmyer rushed back home to Guyana to be by the

Kieron Pollard may be in the middle of his least productive IPL campaign but there’s still more to come from him, in the eyes of Ian Bishop. The former West Indies bowler and current broadcaster suggests some reinvention can go a long way to prolong Pollard’s stint at Mumbai Indians. “Pollard himself has to reinvent

Among the latest players to catch Ian Bishop‘s eye is West Indies and Delhi Capitals’ explosive middle-order batter Rovman Powell, who Bishop believes has “matured” and evolved to become a “versatile” batter. Talking on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time:Out, Bishop said the biggest improvement he noticed in Powell’s batting was how he has confidently dominated spin bowling

Cricket West Indies lead selector Desmond Haynes and director of cricket Jimmy Adams have criticised West Indies’ players for falling to meet “even minimum fitness standards”. Adams warned that there were contractual consequences for players who fell below the mark, while Haynes said he was “pretty disappointed” at players who hadn’t met the criteria. “When

While Hetmyer has been given a break so he can be home for the birth of his first child, the statement from Cricket West Indies said Even Lewis was not considered since he failed CWI’s fitness criteria. Holder has been rested, with workload management cited as the key reason. All three are part of the

Nicholas Pooran has been appointed as the captain of the West Indies white-ball sides, the board said in a release on Tuesday. Shai Hope will be his deputy in both the ODI and T20 formats. The move comes after Kieron Pollard announced his retirement from international cricket last month. Pooran was the vice-captain in white-ball

Kieron Pollard is weighing up offers to play in the T20 Blast following his retirement from international cricket. Pollard, who turns 35 next month, stepped back from his position as West Indies’ limited-overs captain last week after two-and-a-half years in the role but will continue to play domestic T20 cricket around the world. He was

West Indies limited-overs captain Kieron Pollard has retired from international cricket by announcing his decision on social media. “After careful deliberation I’ve today decided to retire from international cricket,” Pollard said in a video on Instagram. “As is the case of many young persons it was a dream of mine to represent the West Indies

Twelve teams will qualify automatically for the 2024 men’s T20 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the West Indies and the USA. The qualification process for the two other marquee events, the women’s T20 World Cup in 2024 and the women’s ODI World Cup in 2025, have also been finalised by the ICC, which

Andre Russell will join West Indies’ white-ball captain Kieron Pollard and his deputy Nicholas Pooran at Trinbago Knight Riders for CPL 2022. Sunil Narine has also been retained by the franchise, making it a star-studded pre-draft core already. Notably, this will be the first time in the history of the CPL that Russell and Pollard

News “We will be doing things that we have not been doing well, such as rotating strike, sweeping, and playing spin better,” says Phil Simmons Cricket West Indies has named uncapped duo Keacy Carty and Nyeem Young among 16 players for a white-ball skills camp that will be held in Antigua from March 31 to