The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Three months ago, Narsingh Deonarine?s fledgling career was at a crossroads. Indifferent form leading up to selection of the Guyana team for the Carib Beer tournament resulted in him being relegated to the ranks of reserves.
With West Indies players Carl Hooper, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan probably returning for the latter rounds of the competition, the young Deonarine seemed destined to a season of watching the action from the pavilion.
Former Trinidad & Tobago and West Indies off-spinner Rangy Nanan believes the selection of spinning all-rounder Omari Banks on the West Indies 13-man squad for the second Cable and Wireless Test match which starts on Saturday against Australia at the Queen's Park Oval is a step in the right direction and a sound investment.
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Wes Hall plans to quit the post at the board's upcoming annual general meeting because of health issues, a well-placed source disclosed this week.
Hall, the smooth-talking religious minister who ran unopposed in 2001, has already notified some members of the board that he won't seek re-election and behind-the-scenes negotiations have already begun to identify a successor.
Now that West Indies fast bowler Jermaine Lawson has become the third Jamaican to contract the chickenpox disease in recent weeks, the question on everyone's lips today is "who's next?".
Team manager Ricky Skerritt believes the majority of the players were immune as they had already had the disease, noting that the players who haven't yet contracted chickenpox had been prescribed preventive medication. What exactly is chickenpox? Can a person contract the disease twice? We offer some basic facts about chickenpox (for informational purposes only)...
West Indies fast bowler Jermaine Lawson has contracted the chicken pox viral infection and was ruled out of the second Test match in Trinidad and Tobago, the WICB announced Tuesday.
Lawson's place in the squad will be taken by Barbadian fast bowler Tino Best. The board also announced that wicket-keeper Ridley Jacobs will definitely miss the match and will be replaced in the final eleven by Carlton Baugh Jr.