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
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News Narine hasn’t played for the West Indies since August 2019 West Indies captain Kieron Pollard has said that Sunil Narine could return to the T20 side after he regains confidence in his bowling action. Narine, who was warned for a suspect action at last year’s IPL, has not been named in the squad to
News Head coach says enough high-quality preparation is lacking away from international cricket West Indies coach Phil Simmons has acknowledged that his batters have work to do on their techniques after their 2-nil series defeat against South Africa. Not only did West Indies lose both Tests by significant margins inside four days, they also failed
News His new role “will be to ensure that all the right questions are being asked while contributing to shaping of new ideas” Two-time T20 World champion Daren Sammy has been added to the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board as an independent non-member director. Sammy was one of three appointments of Independent Directors approved at
News The home side failed to reach 200 in four innings against South Africa Captain Kraigg Brathwaite denied that the lack of a batting coach was to blame for West Indies performances in the Test series against South Africa and apologised to supporters for the team’s poor displays. West Indies were bowled out for their
News Barbadian fast bowler has UK passport and impressed on trial with 2nd XI Warwickshire look set to pull off something of a coup in signing Che Simmons, a young fast bowler who has been dubbed the “new Jofra Archer”. Simmons, a 17-year-old seamer, was born and raised in Barbados. But he also holds a
Report Roston Chase was the only West Indies batter to offer any resistance South Africa 322 (de Kock 141*, Holder 4-75) beat West Indies 97 (Holder 20, Ngidi 5-19, Nortje 4-35) & 162 (Chase 62, Rabada 5-34) by an innings and 63 runs Kagiso Rabada claimed his first five-wicket haul in 33 innings, since March
News Gladiators allrounder stretchered off to an ambulance as second innings got underway Playing his first match of PSL 2021, Quetta Gladiators’ Andre Russell was struck on the helmet while batting and later replaced by fast bowler Naseem Shah under the concussion-sub rule at the innings break. The decision to replace the allrounder with Naseem
News Kieran Powell will replace him under the concussion substitute rule West Indies batter Nkrumah Bonner has been ruled out of the first Test against South Africa in St Lucia after being diagnosed with concussion. Kieran Powell will replace him under the concussion substitute rule. Bonner top edged the very first ball he faced, off
News “More or less for me now it’s just about having fun and enjoying however many days I have playing international cricket” “It was kind of a shock” for Jason Holder to be relieved from the West Indies Test captaincy, and while he admits to finding it difficult to transition from being the leader to
News The 19-year-old Trinidad & Tobago quick could make his Test debut despite having played just one first-class match Jayden Seales has played just one first-class match, but the 19-year-old quick has impressed the West Indies selectors enough to be drafted into the 13-man shortlist for the first Test against South Africa. It’s already “a
West Indies are likely to take a knee at the start of each of the two Tests against South Africa © Getty Images Almost a year to the day that West Indies became one of the first two international cricket sides to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter, their former captain Jason
News Roston Chase and Kieran Powell also named, Darren Bravo misses out Shai Hope has been picked in West Indies’ squad for the first Test against South Africa, and could make a return to their Test XI after being dropped last year. Trinidad & Tobago’s Jayden Seales, the 19-year-old rookie fast bowler, has also made
News The 17-man squad will be trimmed to 13 ahead of the series opener Trinidad & Tobago fast bowler Jayden Seales has bolted into West Indies’ provisional squad for the forthcoming two-match Test series against South Africa in St Lucia. The 19-year-old’s only first-class match so far was for West Indies A in New Zealand
News “But at the end of the day, I’m not being ungrateful, I’m grateful that we’re still playing, we’re still doing our job” Bubble life has “definitely taken a toll” on West Indies allrounder Andre Russell because of the restrictions, quarantine rules imposed on players as more and more international series and T20 tournaments are
News Earlier, the players were forced to train in smaller groups after fast bowler Mindley had tested positive West Indies’ 30-member squad for the preparatory camp in St Lucia, ahead of the two-match home Test series against South Africa, has returned to full training after all players tested negative for Covid-19 on Thursday. The players
News Seven Pakistanis will feature this season, including first-timers Haider Ali, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Amir and Azam Khan South Africa allrounder Chris Morris is set for his CPL debut after being unveiled as a first-round pick by the Barbados Tridents in the draft that was held on Sunday, ahead of the 2021 season, which will
News Jamaica seamer was part of a training camp in St Lucia, ahead of the home season Jamaica seamer Marquino Mindley, who had been picked in West Indies’ 30-man squad for the high-performance training camp in St Lucia, ahead of the home Test series against South Africa, has tested positive for Covid-19. The 26-year old,
Andre Russell had earlier said CPL 2020 would be his last season with the Jamaica Tallawahs © Getty Images Jamaica Tallawahs’ Andre Russell is among the high-profile retentions by franchises ahead of CPL 2021, which is set to be played entirely in St Kitts from September 19. Last April, Russell had called the Tallawahs the
News Eleven players and support staff received their first dose, while two squad members received their second dose Thirteen members of West Indies’ red-ball training squad and management have received their vaccinations against Covid-19, CWI confirmed on Wednesday. The West Indies players and support staff are currently in a bio-secure bubble in St Lucia, preparing
News Sunil Narine still absent as West Indies gear up for 15 T20Is against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan Allrounder Andre Russell is back in the West Indies T20I squad for the first time since March 2020. West Indies’ 18-member squad for their upcoming set of T20I series against South Africa, Australia and Pakistan also
News In all, eighteen women players have been offered deals, an increase of three from the last season Qiana Joseph and the uncapped Kaysia Schultz have received their first West Indies central contracts, for the 2021-22 season. Shawnisha Hector, who has played just a solitary international – an ODI against India in 2019 – also
News Roston Chase, Shimron Hetmyer, Sheldon Cottrell and Oshane Thomas cut from the list Kyle Mayers and Nkrumah Bonner, who helped West Indies secure the fifth-highest successful chase in Test history in Chattogram in February earlier this year and then were also impressive during the home Test series against Sri Lanka, have been rewarded with
The CPL was the first of the major franchise tournament to resume operations since the start of the pandemic © Getty Images The 2021 Caribbean Premier League will be hosted entirely at Warner Park in St. Kitts, beginning on August 28. The 33-match tournament will allow fans to attend at up to 50% capacity of
News Both he and his deputy Kishore Shallow were elected unopposed Ricky Skerritt has been officially elected for a second term as president of Cricket West Indies. Skerritt and his deputy Kishore Shallow were elected unopposed at CWI’s annual general meeting, held virtually, on April 11. The fresh two-year term will last until March 2023.
News Rival Anand Sanasie along with Calvin Hope withdrew from the the election race Ricky Skerritt and his deputy Kishore Shallow are set to be elected for a second term to lead the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board. The development comes after the rival pair of Anand Sanasie and Calvin Hope announced on April 1
News West Indies captain to link up with squad following conclusion of Antigua Test match Gloucestershire have made a last-minute addition to their County Championship squad by signing West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite as an overseas player for the first two months of the domestic season. Brathwaite will be available for up to eight Championship
Pathum Nissanka will be looking to build on his magnificent debut hundred © RANDY BROOKS/AFP/Getty Images Big picture After a first Test that had started with a patented Sri Lankan batting collapse that almost anyone who had been watching them play cricket over the past few years could have predicted, here we are somehow entertaining
News Representatives from the Guyana and the Barbados cricket boards failed to show up at the virtual AGM In a dramatic turn of events, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board elections have been adjourned till April 11 after representatives from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) failed to show up
News Fast bowler to fly in from Antigua at conclusion of Test series against Sri Lanka Alzarri Joseph, the West Indies fast bowler, has joined Worcestershire as their overseas player for the opening weeks of the 2021 season. Joseph, who is currently playing against Sri Lanka in the first Test in Antigua, will fly into