The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
The final of the Busta International Shiled Cup competition this
year will be televised live via Trans World International (TWI),
the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced on its Web site.
To accomodate the television coverage of the game, the board said
the date for the final has been shifted to Thursday, April 4 to
Sunday, April 7.
Leading West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor was today named among
the eight best umpires in world cricket, after being included in
the ICC's new full time Elite Panel.
Two umpires from the Elite Panel will stand in all future Test
matches and there will be one member standing with a home umpire
for One Day Internationals.
The Government of St. Lucia has ordered the main contractor at the National Cricket Stadium at Gros Islet to take any money owed to a sub contractor, Finn Tannberg and pay it to his workers. The man owed his workers in excess of EC$80,000.
Guyana snatched second place and semi-final home field advantage
when spinners Neil McGarrell and Mahendra Nagamootoo rushed them to
a big innings win over the Leeward Islands before lunch on the
final day of their 2002 Busta Cup match at Albion today.
In the other unfinished game, West Indies opener Darren Ganga
struck an unbeaten 151 as Trinidad and Tobago drew its game with
the Windwards to secure the fourth and final semi-final place.
I would like to plant a bug in the ears of the West Indies
selectors. I would like to suggest to them that they consider the
importance of the upcoming engagements, and given that we are
supposedly in a rebuilding phase, let them place the most weight on
the "A" team tour to England. Let us stock that team with our most
promising players. Promising players yes, but still players who are
short on experience.