The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Daren Ganga's injury-riddled Trinidad & Tobago are the 2004 regional one day champions.
Led by man-of-the-match Richard Kelly and level-headed batting by Imran Jan, the undermanned Trinidad & Tobago completed a four-wicket win over defending champions Guyana to lift the President's Cup at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) late Saturday confirmed the appointment of Australian Bennett King as head coach of the senior team and announced that legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers will join the West Indies coaching staff as technical consultant.
Tony Howard retains his job as team manager under the new management structure unveiled earlier this year. WICB chief executive Roger Brathwaite said few more appointments, possibly an assistant coach, would be made shortly.
Brilliant all round cricket from man-of-the-match Lennox Cush and Narsingh Deonarine led Guyana to an eight-wicket win over the Windward Islands and a place in the finals of this year's unsponsored West Indies one-day competition.
Cush took 3-21 to limit the Windwards to 174 for nine off 50 overs and returned with the bat to stroke a responsible unbeaten 61 as Guyana coasted to 175 for 2 with overs to spare.
Half-centuries from the Ganga brothers and a valuable unbeaten 47 by Ricardo Powell sparked underdogs Trinidad & Tobago to an 11-run victory over Barbados in the first semi final of this year's unsponsored West Indies one-day competition.
Sherwin Ganga (66) teamed up with captain Daren Ganga (50) to lead Trinidad & Tobago's chase of a target of 276 set by the pre-tournament favourites. When bad light stopped play and forced the implementation of the Duckworth/Lewis system, Trinidad were declared victors at 256 for five (46.2 overs).
Percy Patson back here chaps. Still not yet recovered fully from the Test series humiliation, but good ole Percy was the toast of Oxfordshire after the West Indian boys spanked the English in the ICC Champions Trophy.
Walking around in a West Indies shirt suddenly became less of a bait for bad jokes. One woman even offered to wear my shirt the morning after, but Percy, in the new manner of disciplined West Indian, took a phone number and promised to call. Plus, she wasn't all that fit -- this new Percy has standards.