The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
by VANEISA BAKSH
On the surface, criticisms of the inclusion of the Combined Colleges and Campuses in the regional KFC competition appear to be a protest against expanding the number of teams which results in fewer matches for each. The arguments express concern that quality will be diluted.
But scratch that brittle surface gently and another layer emerges, perhaps the truly underlying cause of this opposition.
by VANEISA BAKSH
Almost 75 years ago, on board a ship returning to the West Indies at the end of his first season with Nelson in the Lancashire League, Learie Constantine indulged a reverie on the future of cricket.
In Cricket In The Sun, he described it: "... An alarming impression came to me at times that three-day cricket matches are an anachronism in our hurried, workaday world. It seemed to me, sunning myself in a chair on the liner's deck, that the era when men could afford to give three whole days to one game, and then as often as not fail to finish it, had passed away. As in a dream, I foresaw an incredible world where county teams, also, played and usually finished their games in one day, with never a wasted minute; when a shower did not stop play; when those thousands of fine cricketers who now cannot afford to turn out for anything more ambitious than a Saturday afternoon club got into the first-class game..."]
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by IAN BEST
The Barbados celectors have opted for a relatively youthful and inexperienced squad in preparation for the 2007 edition of the KFC Cup with teenaged sensation Jonathan Carter set to make his debut in national colours.
There is also room for the talented off spinning all-rounder Derek Bishop who is currently enjoying a successful season with the St. Catherine team.
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by RYAN PATRICK
Two former Sri Lanka coaches -- Dav Whatmore and John Dyson -- are among the candidates to take over as head coach of the West Indies team.
Whatmore, a brand-name coach who has had success with Lancashire, Sri Lanka (two stints) and Bangladesh, is considered the front-runner for the job, which has been vacant since Bennett King resigned in April.