West Indies

News Joe Root in the firing line as England brace for inevitability of another series loss Marcus Trescothick, England’s batting coach, insists that “one bad day” cannot undermine the progress that has been made in the Caribbean, as the squad faces up to the near-inevitability of humiliating defeat in the third and final Test in

Big Picture So far, England’s tour of the Caribbean has been one for the purists. Ten days of attritional cricket, interspersed with flashes of hopeful flamboyance, and nothing yet to show in the series ledger for either side’s efforts. Could that be about to change, as Grenada prepares to host a Test match for only

News Thirteen-man squad named for Grenada Test, which begins on Thursday West Indies have named an unchanged 13-man squad for the third Test against England at Grenada, starting on Thursday, with the series locked at 0-0 following draws in the opening two matches in Antigua and Barbados. It is the third time in the series

News “She is in good spirits and thankful for all the well wishes,” CWI says in a statement Shamilia Connell, the West Indies quick who collapsed during the game against Bangladesh on Friday and had to be taken to hospital, has been discharged by medical authorities after her “tests returned clear results”, a Cricket West

News “She is a strong girl and we’re backing her to get well soon,” says Hayley Matthews Shamilia Connell, the West Indies quick, collapsed on the field during the 47th over of Bangladesh’s chase. It needed the medical staff to ferry her out of the ground, even as play came to a halt for a

Report Crawley, Lees fall as Lawrence provides lively support for captain before tea England 136 for 2 (Root 80*, Lawrence 26*) vs West Indies Joe Root cashed in on a soporific surface with his second half-century of the series, but West Indies’ patient approach was rewarded with the afternoon wicket of Alex Lees on an

Big Picture Reset, and refocus. After five days of hard toil on an unforgiving Antigua deck, the series swings south-east to Barbados, where the surface – to judge by a run of seven consecutive results since a tense draw against India in 2011 – ought to offer more for the bowlers on both teams to

News Unchanged 13-man squad named for second Test in Barbados West Indies have been docked two World Test Championship points, and the players fined 40% of their match fee, after Kraigg Brathwaite’s team were penalised for a slow over rate during the drawn Antigua Test. The hosts were ruled to be two overs short, after

News Barbados Royals, Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders will contest the first edition of the tournament The inaugural season of the Women’s CPL, featuring three teams, is set to run alongside the men’s event this year. Both the CPL and the WCPL are expected to take place within a month-long CPL window that

Report England set testing victory target after Joe Root declaration following 24th Test century Tea West Indies 375 and 65 for 3 need another 221 runs to beat England 311 and 349 for 6 dec (Crawley 121, Root 109) Ben Stokes and Jack Leach made the breakthroughs for England after Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell

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

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,

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 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,