No Ws in Cricinfo's all-time West Indies XI

Mon, Jul 26, '10

 

A jury of West Indian cricket commentators including Tony Becca and Fazeer Mohammed have selected CricInfo's All-time XI West Indies team, "The Invincibles". Consisting of Greenidge, Hunte, Headley, Richards, Lara, Sobers, Marshal, Hendriks, Holding, Ambrose, and Gibbs, there was apparently no room for any of the three Ws. Richards, Headley, and Sobers were all selected unanimously.

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T&T pummel Canada in T20 opener

Fri, Jul 23, '10

 

Stanford Twenty20 champions Trinidad and Tobago opened the inaugural West Indies Cricket Board’s Caribbean T20 with a crushing nine wicket win at Kensington Oval in Barbados yesterday. Batting in reply to Canada's 110, Adrian Barath scored an unbeaten 66 from 47 deliveries.

CricInfo has the scorecard and a bulletin.

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Football trumps Cricket

Mon, Jun 28, '10

 

Journal entry by Michelle McDonald at Kensington Oval, Barbados
 
Sunday 27 June 2010, 1:03pm, Media Centre: Just arrived here. Place dead.  Usual media suspects though.  Wonder how many of them wished they could be home watching Formula 1, then football later? Probably won’t get any player to interview, so will probably do an article about what, if anything, the BCA could have done to attract more spectators into the ground.

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'I have nothing to lose'

Fri, Jun 25, '10

 

Recalled opening batsman, Barbadian Dale Richards, says that he views his latest opportunity with the West Indies Test side as a case of “nothing to lose”.

Speaking with the media prior to the Windies training session on Thursday afternoon at Kensington Oval – where the Third Digicel Test will commence on Saturday – Richards said that at his stage of his career he is not taking on pressures he experienced when he was younger.

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WICB launches Twenty20 tournament

Thu, Jun 10, '10

 

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Thursday announced the details for the inaugural Caribbean T20 Tournament which will be played from July 22 to 31. The tournament, which will form part of the annual WICB calendar, will have the first phase played in Barbados (July 22 to 25) with the second phase in Trinidad (July 28 to 31).

Eight teams will be involved in the Caribbean T20. The West Indies territorial teams: Barbados, Combined Campuses and Colleges, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Windward Islands will be joined by an international team. There is a huge incentive to win the Caribbean T20, with the leading regional team going on to represent the West Indies at the Airtel Champions League in South Africa in September.

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