T&T Cricket Board president Azim Bassarath says they will be hosting a public symposium to discuss the way forward for the West Indies game starting next month. He hopes that the TTCB will be able to provide a blueprint to assist Cricket West Indies on how to develop the regional game going forward following the talks.
The idea was first raised by Windies legend Sir Clive Lloyd after the regional team was booted out of the just-concluded ICC World Cup in England early after losing six of its nine games.
Speaking at the prize distribution function of Ramlagan's Balmain United Literary and Cricket Club at the Sir Frank Worrell Development Centre in Couva, over the weekend, Bassarath announced the plan and urged all cricket lovers to take part in the symposium. He said the TTCB had informed CWI president Ricky Skerritt of the plan and received their blessings and either Skerritt or CWI vice-president Dr Kishore Shallow will be here for the event.
Australian newspapers lose Chris Gayle defamation appeal
Tue, Jul 16, '19
An Australian media group has lost an appeal against a defamation payout of Aus$300,000 that was awarded to Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle by the Supreme Court of New South Wales last year.
The 39-year-old Gayle was accused by former media group Fairfax, which at the time was the publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times, of exposing himself to a female massage therapist in a dressing room during the 2015 World Cup in Sydney.
Gayle told the court that the stories were not true and successfully sued for defamation.
A 151-run first-wicket stand between Ruturaj Gaikwad (85) and Shubman Gill (62) set up India's first-innings total of 255, after which pacer Vavdeep Saini ran through West Indies A with a five-wicket haul to give India A a 2-0 lead in the series.
Between them, Gaikwad and Gill struck nine fours and three sixes and batted nearly 31 overs, but a solid comeback from Romario Shepherd (4-36) in the death overs restricted India A from posting an even bigger total. The captain Manish Pandey, Ishan Kishan and Hanuma Vihari were all dismissed in their twenties.
West Indies A began their chase poorly, losing John Campbell in the second over to Khaleel Ahmed. When Saini came to bowl, in as second-change, he dismantled the backbone of West Indies A, removing Sunil Ambris, Roston Chase and Jonathan Carter.
West Indies legend Clive Lloyd says there is an urgent need for the Cricket West Indies board to hold a cricket symposium to discuss the current state of the game in the region and determine a way forward thereafter.
The former West Indies captain, who was very present at the ongoing 2019 ICC World Cup commentating on the West Indies matches, said it is critical for the CWI to get all the stakeholders involved in these sessions, get their input and use the information collected in these forums.
“We need to have the board set up a cricket symposium and get major stakeholders who can make a difference on board,” Lloyd told Guardian Media.
On Monday July 8th, Cricket West Indies (CWI) released the list of players–both men and women–to be contracted for the 2019-2020 season. For the men’s senior team, contracts were distributed in three categories; all-format, red-ball and white-ball contracts. While the standard ‘central contracts’ were issued for West Indies Women. On the men’s side, three less than the maximum twenty-two players were contracted; these vacancies may be filled throughout the year. The ladies in maroon saw an increase of three, from the previous period, in contracted players; up from twelve to fifteen. The general idea behind central contracts is so a sporting nation’s governing body might have a say in the club competitions in which its players partake—protecting its assets—so that they might be fresh for international duty.
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