West Indies Championship - The Final Round

43-0 at lunch

need 176 more to win

go Academy

Athanaze is a no no captain....melius was.a.better strategist as captain

In reply to PalsofMine

Great post and very objective, I wish if the posters were like you maybe they can learn so keep teaching them.

I am enjoying what I am seeing, Bim's cricket is in good hands.
Thank you to Reifer, Brooks, and many others.
So many youngsters have graduated and are ready to join the Pride.

In reply to openning

Didn't mention that your second team is better than yuh fuss team because it looks like defeat for the fuss team,looks like.

Windwards 233/6

WI Academy, chasing 219 to win, are currently 174/6 (R.Worrell 63, K.Alleyne 52, J.Warrican 3/46) vs Barbados

Windwards, chasing an unlikely 416 for victory are currently 249/6 (S.Pascal 63, J.Jeremiah 51, D.Doram 4/49) vs Leewards

WI Academy closing on what would be a memorable victory...require just 16 runs now to beat Barbados...Bowen-Tuckett still there on 21, Nedd on 14...

Congrats Guyana - dem een meking these runs.

In reply to 4REALQUICKS
Guyana will win again.

pride had no pride in this match they know who to get rid of next season any way the academy guys played well i continue being a fan of the little wicket keeper tuckett and joshua bishop

It's over, WI Academy secure their third victory of the season with a three wicket win over Barbados. A few dropped catches late on but the Academy boys held their nerve, especially the calm and composed keeper-batsman Carlon Bowen-Tuckett who played another fine innings to remain not out at the end on 27.

Guyana are champions again.

Bowen-Tuckett has impressed me all season. Really happy to see his development. A team for him, I think, as well as the Irish tour

In reply to openning

Guess you got to see there were quality youngsters who needed to be given the chance to play.

In reply to seaegg99

Dude, my motto is always about consistency, everyone brings a level of talent to the game, and you select players from performances.
Where would grade Kevin and Drakes the two youngest players on the team, in season performance?
Shaquille Cumberbatch at 29 years and cannot bat, what was his role?
Reifer and Jordan are very similar, and I just don't think Jair would have made any 1st division team, 25 years ago.
There are reasons why Barbados is not producing world-class elite batsmen.

In reply to openning

Of Kevin and Drakes, I would say that they disappointed in that they appear to be very talented but could not achieve the constistency of a Louis or a Jangoo. Wickham for sure makes the A team for me. Drakes has to wheel and come back next year

250k is not a bad prize for winners

In reply to PalsofMine

I agree with Drakes, he has shown promise but needs to show a bit more. However, for me, Wickham should go to England. He only really failed once in the entire championship season, had several starts (a few raw deals with umpires!) and in his last 10/11 innings, has two centuries and two fifties. He looks good at the crease, nice and calm, composed...certainly a player that has plenty of potential to develop into a quality international level middle order batsman. In the future, given time, I could imagine a middle order with players such as Imlach, Carty, Athanaze, Sinclair, Wickham...but as ever, only time will tell!

I think that it will be difficult for Wickham to make the middle order for England so I have him in my A team squad. He still needs to iron out that problem of falling in the 30s to loose shots. I hope that those names will be our middle order in the near future as Nos 2 to 6 (Imlach perhaps opening with Kraigg) to be followed by Silva at #7. I think that Athanaze made a tactical error in not bowling himself more. If he could have picked up a couple wickets, it would have raised his stocks on the basis that he and Sinclair could share the off spinning duties in the XI and he could have the Joe Root role.