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 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.
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.
Texas-based billionaire Allen Stanford has offered the England board a staggering US$100 million for five Twenty20 matches in five years against a West Indies all-star side.
Stanford held talks with David Collier, the chief executive of the ECB, earlier this week where he offered $20 million for a match between England and a West Indies all-star team to coincide with the Independence Day in Antigua on November 1. If the match takes place, it will be the most expensive cricket match ever played