The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
In a wrap-up of the West Indies tour match against the Queensland Bulls, Fazeer Mohammed declares that Shivnarine Chanderpaul's men have earned respect Down Under by pushing the State side to the limit over the course of four days.
Former West Indies Test wicket-keeper Deryck Murray turned back the challenge of former West Indies youth captain Dudnath Ramkessoon to emerge the new president of the T&T Cricket Board.
At the 48th annual general meeting of the board yesterday at the National Cricket Centre at Balmain in Couva. Murray, with the support of "Friends of Cricket," defeated Ramkessoon, who had the backing of the T&TCB, by 25 votes to 19.
With all the rain, it has been difficult to stay focused on cricket. Our Jamaican cricketers, who for the second year in a row, must shake off their puzzling below par regional limited overs performance will be more than a little concerned about the rain-enforced lack of practice ahead of the campaign to defend their Carib Beer crowns.
In the Barbados Nation, Haydn Gill brings news that Ryan Hinds has been appointed successor to Courtney Browne as captain of Barbados. His deputy will be Ian Bradshaw.
Hinds has no time to allow the promotion to sink in, heading off immediately to captain the team at the Antigua Independence Cricket Fest this weekend.
Gareth Breese left Durham at the end of this year's season a very happy man. When his one year 2004 contract was renewed for a further two years, he thought that was a great deal. But the English county club located in the cold north of England, sent him back to sunny Jamaica with a signed contract which will see him playing with them until 2007.
"I guess they're fairly happy with what is happening," said a smiling Breese in an in-depth interview with CaribbeanCricket.com. Thanks to his father's British nationality, Breese does not count as one of the two overseas players each club is allowed to contract.