West Indies

Karishma Ramharack has played five ODIs and six T20Is to date © Getty Images West Indies have announced two changes to their 13-member squad for the series-deciding third T20I against South Africa, with Cherry-Ann Fraser and Karishma Ramharack replacing Shamilia Connell and Shakera Selman. Both Connell and Selman went wicketless in the first two T20Is

News Taylor has been identified as a primary contact of a Covid-19 case in Jamaica West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor has been ruled out of the three-match T20I series against South Africa after being identified as a primary contact of a Covid-19 case in Jamaica, which requires her to serve a period of isolation. Offspinner

News The 21-year old, who left the hotel bubble without permission, will take no further part in this year’s tournament St Kitts & Nevis Patriots player Mikyle Louis has been forced to leave the CPL 2021 following a breach of the tournament’s operating protocols. The 21-year-old, who left the hotel bubble without permission, will take

Raymon Reifer prepares to bowl Randy Brookes / © CPL T20/Getty Images Barbados Royals 161 for 5 (Phillips 56*, Reifer 31*, Permaul 2-15) beat Jamaica Tallawahs 146 for 9 (Brooks 47, Reifer 3-31, Perera 2-17) by 15 runs Having sat out his team’s first two fixtures, Raymon Reifer hit a crucial unbeaten 31 as part

News The home side’s bowling continued to impress but they rarely had runs to play with West Indies coach Phil Simmons has put the onus back on the team’s batting to be better at assessing conditions after they again struggled to build substantial scores against Pakistan although insisted there are signs of improvement. The series

News Club are top of Division One heading into ‘Super September’ title run-in Warwickshire have become the latest club to bolster their squad ahead of the County Championship’s ‘Super September’, signing the Barbados seamer Chemar Holder for their Division One run-in. Holder, who made his Test debut in New Zealand last December, will fly to

Big picture The agonisingly tense denouement to the first Test between these sides would be enough to inject life into any series, and the shot in the arm West Indies gained from that thrilling one-wicket win should serve them extremely well. Having struggled in the format over recent years, it felt like the sort of

Three Afghanistan players have been named in the reshuffled squad lists for the upcoming CPL season: the Jamaica Tallawahs’ Qais Ahmad and the Guyana Amazon Warriors pair of Naveen-ul-Haq and Waqar Salamkheil. Ibrahim Zadran and Shafiqullah Ghafari, who had originally been drafted by the Tallawahs and the Barbados Royals respectively in May, were not part

News Sabina Park hero recalls last-wicket partnership that secured West Indies a one-wicket win Small targets. Big drama. The story has done the rounds for as long as there has been Test cricket and yet another riveting chapter was added to it at Sabina Park. West Indies were set 168 to win. But they ended

News With domestic events postponed, Barbados get the nod as they are the defending T20 Blaze champions Barbados will participate in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games as the “representative team from the West Indies”, the update coming after Cricket West Indies postponed the 2021 T20 Blaze and Women’s Super50 Cup until next year. That meant

News He was also not impressed by the lack of preparation from the players ahead of the first Test against Pakistan West Indies head coach Phil Simmons acknowledged that the hosts were the underdogs in the upcoming two-match Test series against Pakistan. The Tests – both of which will be played in Jamaica – herald

News Gabriel has been given time to complete his injury recovery while Bravo takes a break after spending a prolonged period in the national team’s bio-bubble Fast bowler Chemar Holder and middle-order batter Shamarh Brooks have returned to the West Indies squad for the two-Test series against Pakistan beginning August 12 in Kingston. Holder has

Preview The availability of Gayle, Russell, Bravo and Pollard makes the hosts a terrifying proposition on paper Big Picture West Indies’ extended warm-up for the T20 World Cup continues apace, with Pakistan the latest side the defending champions will host ahead of the global event later this year. While there might be legitimate concern around

Australia will need to find a way to combat spin and fit more overs of it into their attack © AFP Big Picture Even though all ODIs in the World Cup Super League now carry the importance of points, it is still good to have a series decider and that’s what’s on offer in Barbados.

News The West Indies captain thought Australia should have been held to around 120 West Indies captain Kieron Pollard was left frustrated that his team made things harder than he believes they should have done in the second ODI in Barbados even though they came away with a four-wicket win which sets up a series

News Players, match officials and TV crew will now be isolated in the hotel and retested The second ODI between West Indies and Australia was postponed moments before the first ball after a positive Covid test emerged from the West Indies camp to leave the remainder of this tour and upcoming series for both teams

Preview Hayden Walsh Jr will look to cap his memorable series with more wickets Big Picture The fourth match of the series was a thoroughly entertaining T20 from start to finish: plenty of thundering strokeplay, some impressive spin bowling, an astonishing late onslaught and then a classy final over as Australia clung on for a

News “He let me know where I stand within this team and he wanted me to go and express myself” Chris Gayle has thanked injured West Indies captain Kieron Pollard for a pre-match “pep talk” after he emerged from his lean run with a reminder of him at his best, scoring 67 off 38 balls

News T20 stalwart reveals he taught Edwards the slower variation that dismissed Finch in the chase Dwayne Bravo is the second-most capped player in T20 history – his international captain Kieron Pollard is well ahead at the top – and there were examples of that wealth of experience dotted throughout West Indies’ hugely impressive performance

Report Josh Hazlewood earned the final bowling slot in the Australia side Australia won the toss and decided to bowl against West Indies West Indies were without their captain Kieron Pollard who has a minor injury for the opening match of the series against Australia in St Lucia where the visitors won the toss and

News Aaron Finch bemoans Australia’s lack of a calm head in the chase Hayden Walsh Jr has put his performance in the opening T20I in St Lucia in the top tier of what he has achieved in his career after helping turn around a contest Australia “could have walked” in what has been a difficult

Preview West Indies lost 3-2 against South Africa and need better returns from their middle order Big Picture Australia are back in action. While most other major nations have been playing over the last few months, this will be the men’s side first time in the field since early March in New Zealand. It marks

News The likes of Hetmyer and Pooran failed to fire in the T20Is against South Africa West Indies captain Kieron Pollard has pleaded for patience to be shown towards the team’s young batters as they try to build confidence ahead of the T20 World Cup. In the 3-2 series defeat to South Africa, the first

Report She scored her first ODI century in nearly eight years and also picked up three wickets West Indies Women 209 for 5 (Taylor 105*, Iqbal 2-47) beat Pakistan Women 205 for 9 (Dar 55, Zafar 46, Taylor 3-29) by five wickets Captain Stafanie Taylor‘s all-round brilliance led West Indies Women to a five-wicket win

News Kyle Mayers and Kevin Sinclair have missed out on selection Shimron Hetmyer, Sheldon Cottrell and Roston Chase are set to make ODI comebacks during West Indies’ upcoming three-match series against Australia, which is set to begin on July 20 in Barbados. The trio had missed out on selection for the team’s last 50-overs assignment,

News West Indies allrounder added to boost push towards knockout phase Kyle Mayers, the West Indies batting all-rounder, will play for Birmingham Bears in the last three games of the Vitality Blast group stage. Mayers, who scored an unbeaten double-century on Test debut in February, played his first T20I in New Zealand last year after

News Selectors recall uncapped seamer Caneisha Isaac in 13-member squad Chinelle Henry has been rested for the first two ODIs against Pakistan Women as the West Indies Women selection panel recalled uncapped seamer Caneisha Isaac as part of the 13-member squad for the first two of the five ODIs starting July 7. The other members

News Both players said they didn’t have to face any hospitalisations or restrictions Chinelle Henry and Chedean Nation, the two West Indies Women players who collapsed on the field during their team’s second T20I against Pakistan Women, have recovered and are back with the team ahead of the third and final T20I. Both players had

Big picture A grand finale will close the first series of West Indies’ home summer and they will be itching for silverware, especially after losing the Test series 2-0. West Indies have held the lead, then fallen behind and then drawn level to lock this five-match series at 2-2, and create the kind of pressure

News Fully vaccinated fans should have taken the second dose 14 days prior to the match In a first since 2019, fully vaccinated cricket fans in Grenada will get a chance to watch the West Indies Women live in action against the touring Pakistan Women during their eight limited-over matches, starting with a three-match T20I