Yet again, West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Wes Hall
has found reason to condemn the recent policy of the International
Cricket Council (ICC) to schedule international games in the
Caribbean during the region''s rainy season.
Speaking at a brief ceremony at the rain-soaked Beausejour
Stadium here to honour those who played in the West Indies'' very
first Test series against England in London in 1928, the inimitably
colourful Hall described the ICC policy as the "quintessence of
cricketing madness".
Jamaican administrator Michael Hall on Saturday confirmed his
resignation as chief cricket operations officer of the West Indies
Cricket Board (WICB) but distanced himself from what he described
as "speculation and innuendo" about the circumstances of his
departure. In response to a CaribbeanCricket.com
exclusive that detailed his frustrations with the WICB
hierarchy, Hall insisted he was departing "with no bitterness or
acrimony."
Chief cricket operations officer of the West Indies Cricket
Board''s (WICB) Michael Hall has quit the post to pursue job
opportunities in his native Jamaica.
Hall, who was passed over for the job as team manager -- a post
he coveted -- sent his resignation via e-mail to CEO Roger
Brathwaite on Friday. Hall''s departure further depletes the staff
at the WICB''s Antigua headquarters, which is already without a
Chief Marketing Executive (CME).
GROS ISLET, St Lucia -- No praise is too high for the Beausejour
Cricket Ground in St Lucia which has become the Caribbean''s newest
and eighth Test venue and 88th worldwide with the staging of the
first Test of the short two-match series between West Indies and
Sri Lanka.
GROS ISLET, St Lucia ? The last time Brian Lara batted against
Sri Lanka in a Test series, he smashed two centuries and a double
hundred in amassing a whopping 688 runs from just six innings at an
average of 114.66.
That was two years ago in Sri Lanka when Lara displayed his
magic touch against the prodigious swing bowling of Chiminda Vaas
and the wily off-spin of Muttiah Muralitharan on pitches
tailor-made to suit the two Sri Lankan bowlers.
