April 2008 News Archive

Barbados News Topic

Drakes lands UAE coaching job

Former West Indies all-rounder Vasbert Drakes has been appointed as the new coach of the UAE cricket team.

"Drakes will replace Kabir Khan as the next coach. Khan wanted to attend a Level-4 coaching course in Scotland and had stepped down," said Mazhar Khan, the administrator of the Emirates Cricket Board.

Trinidad & Tobago News Topic

Rampaul signs for Ireland

Trinidad & Tobago fast bowler Ravi Rampaul has been signed to appear as an overseas player for the Ireland national squad.

Rampaul is expected to appear in next weekend’s Friends Provident Trophy double header away to Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The 23-year-old,  who has taken 25 wickets in 30 ODIs for the West Indies, is Ireland national coach Phil Simmons' belated choice as overseas professional for the remaining seven games in the one-day competition against the counties.
Vaneisa Baksh News Topic

At the feet of history

by VANEISA BAKSH

Writing in the Business Guardian about the period of West Indies cricket dominance and Trinidad and Tobago dominance in the field of natural gas monetisation, Anthony Wilson argued that we failed to appreciate the true greatness of our endeavours and thus missed their lessons.

We did not analyse processes sufficiently and never tried to model future projects on them, he said, and so, we frittered away our inheritance.