The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
The actual result doesn't matter, it is unlikely that our bowlers could have held the line anyway, but last night's debacle in India was disheartening for any West Indies cricket fan. For the third time in as many matches, crowd trouble in India has marred the game and put our players in danger. Just when we have something to cheer about something else goes wrong.
Former India all-rounder and national selector Kirti Azad has
spoke of his shame after his country's controversial win in the
third one-day match against West Indies.
India were handed victory after the game in Rajkot was brought to a
premature halt following yet more crowd trouble. "It is very
unfortunate. "It is against the spirit of the game. People should
come to enjoy the game, not to disrupt it," said Azad, a member of
India's 1983 World Cup-winning squad.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors' meeting in
Trinidad and Tobago Monday turned out to be a busy one full of
decisions big and small.
The biggest news out of the meeting was also the most expected --
the clearing of champion batsman Brian Lara of match-fixing
allegations but there were a series of crucial decisions from the
board that probably won't make headlines. In this article, we break
down the WICB decisions...
West Indies captain Carl Hooper believes the early success in
the ODI series against India is helping to shape the side for next
year's World Cup campaign in South Africa and he's particularly
pleased with the efforts of all-rounder Vasbert Drakes.
"Barring an injury or two, we are in the process of identifying the
men we will need for the World Cup. Vasbert Drakes is experienced
and on a given day could perform the role of a genuine all-rounder
- an all-round cricketer every team needs in one-day arena," Hooper
wrote in a column for the Press Trust of India (PTI).
If you look at a map of the world you won't even see it, it's that small. Even if you were to only look at cricketing countries, chances are you wouldn't notice it. As one of the smallest countries in the Test cricket fraternity and with a population of around 65,000, Antigua could easily go unnoticed but for one simple fact -- it has produced more great cricketers per capita than any other nation on the planet.