The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
West Indies captain Chris Gayle was lavish in praise for his bowlers after they reduced Australia to 111 for 5 and had the world champions in a corner at 226 for 7 at the end of a rain curtailed first day of the Third Digicel Test at the Kensington Oval.
"They (the bowlers) have been doing a terrific job for the last couple of Test matches and to continue in this game is really good and it is just to finish off on a high now," Gayle told reporters at the end of the first day's play which allowed 56.4 overs until heavy showers in the final session brought an end to the day's proceedings.
The WICB today received US$2Million from the Stanford 20/20 Organisation as the licence fee for sanctioning the Stanford 20/20 Tournament in Antigua.
The licence agreement with Stanford 20/20 will earn the WICB a total of US$6 million, two million this year, 2008, and one million each year up to and including 2012.
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A news item on the Cricinfo website suggests that the International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering ways to repackage Test cricket in a format that will "make it more exciting and introduce an element of competition".
The report quoted I.S. Bindra, a former BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in India] president and the ICC's main advisor, as saying that the ICC has been discussing "ways to increase scoring-rates [and] have a world championship of Test cricket". The discussions were triggered by concern over diminishing attendance at Test matches, which has been accompanied by rapidly escalating interest in Twenty20 games.
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