West Indies

Report West Indies fought back through Romario Shepherd and Odean Smith, but visitors safely completed a shortened chase Ireland 168 for 5 (Tector 54*, McBrine 35, Hosein 2-51) beat West Indies 229 all out (Shepherd 50, Smith 46, McBrine 4-36) by five wickets (D/L method) An unbeaten half-century from Harry Tector and an all-round performance

News Acting Ireland captain says bubble life leaves players feeling like they’re being “manoeuvred on a chessboard” Paul Stirling has said there is “no doubt” that large numbers of players will pull out of tours and tournaments if they continue to operate in tight biosecure conditions, suggesting that Covid bubbles no longer feel like they

News Second ODI shifted to Thursday before series concludes on Sunday in Jamaica West Indies and Ireland have agreed to reschedule the remaining two fixtures of their three-match ODI series, after a Covid-19 outbreak contributed to the second match being postponed. As a result, the one-off T20I scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled. The second

News Ireland return three further Covid-19 positives in addition to injuries suffered by McBrine and Adair A combination of three fresh Covid-19 positive cases along with two injured players has left the Ireland squad “severely depleted”, thereby forcing the postponement of the second ODI against West Indies, scheduled for Tuesday. In a joint media statement

Report Ireland stay in the hunt courtesy Balbirnie and Tector, but fall short by 24 runs in the end West Indies 269 (Brooks 93, Pollard 69, Adair 3-38, Young 3-56, McBrine 2-52) beat Ireland 245 (Balbirnie 71, Tector 53, Dockrell 30, Shepherd 3-50, Joseph 3-55, Smith 2-26) by 24 runs Shamarh Brooks hit 93 off

News The West Indies batter says he should have played forward rather than back to the Adair delivery that got him out on 93 Shamarh Brooks was within touching distance of becoming only the second West Indian to hit a century on ODI debut, when he went back to a Mark Adair delivery and was

News “It’s an individual thing, they are supposed to pride themselves on being fit” West Indies limited-overs captain Kieron Pollard is unimpressed with his team-mates’ commitment to keeping up their fitness levels. The 34-year old is himself coming out of a hamstring injury that forced him into the sidelines for a good five-six weeks. He

News Former opener has signed a contract that runs until June 2024 Haynes, the opening batter who scored over 15,000 international runs for West Indies, was confirmed at a meeting of CWI’s board of directors on Thursday. He has signed a contract that runs until June 2024, and his role as selector will span two

News Young fast bowler in line to make ODI debut against Ireland this week Jayden Seales is in line to make his ODI debut for West Indies against Ireland on Saturday and knows that his ability to adapt to situations and learn on the job will be key, with limited experience of professional 50-over cricket

News The 25-year-old batter was left out of their ODI and T20I squads to play Ireland and England after failing a fitness test Shimron Hetmyer is letting himself and his international team-mates down by paying insufficient attention to his physical fitness, according to West Indies head coach Phil Simmons. Hetmyer has now been omitted from

News No recall for Andre Russell, three players to miss Ireland series due to Covid-19 Pollard had been ruled out of West Indies’ tour of Pakistan in December because of a hamstring injury, with Nicholas Pooran leading the T20I side in his absence. Shai Hope had been due to take charge in the ODIs, before

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,