West Indies' woeful quicks waste a green top
Wed, Dec 11, '13
You'd have got long odds on Shane Shillingford and Narsingh Deonarine bowling unchanged for the best part of a session.
But such was the collective ineptitude of the West Indies fast bowlers on day one of their second test against New Zealand that the visiting spinners wheeled down 39 uninspired overs between them.
Wasn't the Basin Reserve pitch meant to be a green seamer? Hadn't Windies captain scored a decisive blow by winning the toss and asking New Zealand to bat? Apparently not.
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Windies punished by Taylor
Wed, Dec 11, '13
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – West Indies paid a heavy price for sloppy fielding, missing a chance to remove Ross Taylor early, and he gathered his second hundred in as many matches to prop up New Zealand’s batting in the second Test on Wednesday here.
Greeted by a green-top pitch and chilly, overcast weather, the Windies had the New Zealanders on the ropes early, when they removed openers Peter Fulton and Hamish Rutherford cheaply in the first hour, but they gave Taylor a reprieve before he had scored and were punished with a typically purposeful 129, as the home team reached 307 for six at the close on the opening day at the Basin Reserve, after they were sent in to bat.
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Decisions from WICB Board of Directors meeting
Tue, Dec 10, '13
Basseterre, St Kitts – Under the chairmanship of President Whycliffe ‘Dave’ Cameron, the Board of Directors of the West Indies Cricket Board convened its final meeting for 2013 at the Marriott Hotel in St Kitts on Saturday December 7th. Following are the major decisions taken and issues addressed at the meeting:
1. The Board appointed two new directors – Mr. Billy Heaven and Dr. Donovan Bennett. Mr. Heaven and Dr. Bennett were recently elected President and Vice President respectively of the Jamaica Cricket Association.
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ESPN Caribbean presents Windies tour
Tue, Dec 10, '13
ESPN Caribbean Release.
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS - ESPN Caribbean will present live, exclusive coverage of the West Indies tour of New Zealand from December 10 at 4:20 p.m. (ET) from Dunedin as the visitors aim to ascend the International Cricket Council (I.C.C.) Test rankings.
All matches will air live on ESPN Play (www.espnplay.com) - ESPN’s multiscreen live and on-demand broadband platform in the Caribbean.
West Indies will be engaging their hosts from December 2, 2013 until January 15, 2014 in three Tests and five One Day Internationals (ODIs).
The tour culminates with two Twenty20 (T20) fixtures which will serve as the precursor for the Windies’ title defence of the I.C.C. World Twenty20 trophy, which will be broadcast exclusively by ESPN Caribbean in March 2014.
A 16-man Test squad, led by Darren Sammy, has been announced, with the West Indies limited overs squad, captained by Dwayne Bravo, still to be named.
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Darren Bravo - West Indies' Messiah
Tue, Dec 10, '13
Ian Bishop -- former West Indies pacer, now incisive cricket analyst -- during a commentary stint in the Caribbean a few years ago, related that Darren Bravo, in the days when he was dreaming of representing the regional team, would hurry to the Queens Park Oval early on the mornings following international matches. His mission was to locate the ceremonial man-of-the-match cheques, from which he would erase the name of whoever won the award and inscribe his own. It was as a way of a glancing into the future, to the day when he would be called up to accept his own accolade.
The Trinidadian has since earned his own official awards for being the best performer in a game, and if justice were always dispensed infallibly, would have won his first in Tests at the conclusion of the recent match against New Zealand at the University Oval in Dunedin. The many fans that voiced their disappointment on social media and elsewhere that the left-hander was bypassed for the award might even have been inclined, if it were possible, to remove Ross Taylor's name from the trophy and replace it with Bravo's, for he was the more deserving.
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