The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
West Indies all-rounder Ryan Hinds has been ruled out of the VB one-day triangular series in Australia with a groin injury.
The left-handed Barbadian picked up the injury during the first warm up game against Victoria on January 5 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ricardo Powell will leave the region this weekend as a replacement for Hinds.
West Indies cricket fans are mourning deaths the Robert Christiani and Charlie Stayers, two players who appeared in 26 Tests between them.
Christiani, who died in Toronto, Canada, was 85. Stayers passed away at the age of 67 in Britain. Both players represented Guyana and the West Indies in careers that spanned several decades.
West Indies seamer Corey Collymore is upset at being left out of the squad for the VB one-day series in Australia, insisting he was fit and available for selection.
In an interview with the Barbados Nation newspaper, Collymore said he received training and fitness programme from team physio Stephen Partridge after he sustained a side strain during the regional one-day series but no follow-up checks were made on his progress.
West Indies cricket is now embroiled in a messy confrontation that has shaken the entire cricketing fraternity and split it into adamantly opposing camps.
The problem almost derailed the current tour to Australia; the staging of the World Cup in 2007, and the very ?team? that will represent West Indies in Test and ODI cricket, not merely now, but in the immediate future.
When the tiny island of Montserrat was overcome with lava flows from the Soufriere volcano's massive eruptions, many Montserratians were forced to take refuge in other countries. A young Lionel Baker was one of those displaced in 1997. Baker joined his mother, two brothers and a sister in England. The new environment proved to be a shock to the young cricketer's system.