The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
For the West Indies to have any chance of being competitive in England, the bowling has to show up.
Right now, based on everything we've seen and heard it looks like it will be a long, hard, uphill battle, notwithstanding the heavy defeat inflicted by the West Indies on England in the recently concluded NatWest trophy.
Despite their pathetic record, the West Indies have created some unforgettable memories over the past five years. In 1999, there was Brian Lara's 'resurrection' 213 at Sabina, and his 'one wicket win' 153 at Kensington. Antigua in 2003 saw the fourth innings winning record 418 for seven.
In 2004 we have seen the Sabina 47 all out and Lara's 400 not out at Antigua. These were all in Tests, and I cannot remember a single one day score in the same period. This is cricket's paradox. Five dayers provide the lasting memories, but one dayers make the money.
A proposed new structure for the West Indies cricket team will see the Head Coach as the main person held responsible for the performance of the team.
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Teddy Griffith revealed elements of the proposal at the 48th Anniversary dinner of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre on Friday night.
In recent years, the issue of player fitness and injury management has been a hot-button topic in the West Indies. Reports of fitness delinquency have surfaced alongside a high spate of injuries in the senior side.
In a candid discussion on Friday, the two men responsible for fitness and injury management in the West Indies team chatted with CaribbeanCricket.com and others about the challenges they face. The Q&A with trainer Ronald Rogers and physio Andrew Simpson follows...
Our recent submission to New Zealand in the NatWest final has once again sent the die-hard West Indian cricket fans into an all too familiar emotionally distressing tail spin. Our cricketers flattered to deceive when they comfortably defeated the English cricket team (drawn from a population base 29.7 million) only to embarrassingly and, some may say predictably, capitulate to New Zealand's ODI cricket team (drawn from a population base less than 3.8 million), all within the space of less than a week.