Sun, Sep 29, '02
Javagal Srinath will return to test match cricket just four
months after retiring in India's home series against the West
Indies next month.
Indian captain Saurav Ganguly confirmed to SkySports that Srinath,
who has taken more than 200 test wickets, will lead his attack
again in the series against Carl Hooper's side. The veteran
pacemen, who has been working as a Sky Sports pundit, has already
answered India's SOS after Ashish Nehra's injury and will face Sri
Lanka in Sunday's ICC Champions Trophy final.
Sun, Sep 29, '02 by GARFIELD MYERS
Clearly, the ailing Brian Lara will be sorely missed by the West
Indies Cricket team for the three-Test and one-day tour of India,
which begins later this week.
His phenomenal series in a losing cause against Sri Lanka including
the offspinner, Muttiah Muralitharan, on that country's turning
wickets late last year, proved yet again that Lara can be an
absolute master against high-quality spin. Yet, a look at the
records will show that on the West Indies' last Test tour of India
way back in late 1994, the left-handed Trinidadian champion was not
a major factor, scoring just 198 runs in six innings for a series
average of 33.00.
Sat, Sep 28, '02
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is investigating Runako
Morton's premature departure from the West Indies? tour schedule in
Sri Lanka.
Morton stunned his family in Nevis last week when he returned home
after telling the team's management that his grandmother had died.
It was revealed subsequently that one of his grandmothers is still
alive in Antigua and the other died 16 years ago.
Sat, Sep 28, '02
West Indies star batsman Brian Lara returned to Trinidad Friday
night to begin six weeks of rest after doctors confirmed he has
contracted hepatitis. Lara who has been ruled out of the team?s
forthcoming tour of India, spent close to a week in a Colombo
hospital in Sri Lanka undergoing tests.
On his quiet arrival at Piarco International Airport last night
after flying for almost a day, Lara said, "I am feeling
alright."
Fri, Sep 27, '02 by NORMAN GONSALVES
As we all resign ourselves to the fact that the talented but
underachieving Ganga is the best we can scrounge up to replace Lara
in India, we may nostalgically recall a time, not long ago, when
batting talent overflowed in the West Indies.
It was a time when Sobers and Kanhai were ready to call it quits,
and when numerous young batsmen were more than willing to replace
them - in good measure at that. Kallicharran, Irving Shillingford,
Charlie Davis, Geoff Greenidge, and several Jamaican batsmen, among
them Morgan and Foster were all ready. The most gifted among them
all, however, was Lawrence George Rowe, the man called "Yagga" and
"Lawrence of Jamaica".