Wed, Oct 31, '12
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Fast bowler Kemar Roach will miss the Test series on the West Indies tour of Bangladesh due to a knee injury.
West Indies team physiotherapist C.J. Clark described the injury as “a right medial hamstring tendon tear”, which Roach sustained in a club match three weeks ago in his native Barbados.
“Kemar has not recovered adequately from the injury to join the squad for the tour,” said Clark. “He has commenced rehabilitation and will undergo further assessment. He is expected to return to action in three to four weeks time.”
Fidel Edwards, who has taken 158 wickets at 38.37 runs apiece in 54 Tests since his debut nine years ago, has been selected to replace Roach. He is scheduled to leave the Caribbean with the remainder of the 15-member squad on Saturday.
Roach has been West Indies’ most successful bowler in Tests this year, snaring 39 wickets at 22.25 runs apiece in seven Tests.
He is tied with three other players as the second-most successful bowler in Tests this year, along with South African fast-medium bowler Vernon Philander, as well as off-spinners Saeed Ajmal of Pakistan and Graeme Swann of England.
Only England fast bowler Stuart Broad with 40 at 27.77 in nine Tests has more wickets than the above quartet.
“It’s a blow for us,” said West Indies coach Ottis Gibson. “He’s been an outstanding Test bowler for us in the last 12 months. He’s got a lot of wickets for us.
“The news is not all bad. It’s not a major, major injury. It just means that he cannot travel with us. He has started his rehab already, so hopefully, he can recover within the next three weeks and, perhaps, make the One-day series, which means he will get some cricket before the end of the year.
“It’s a difficult situation. He reckons he feels OK sometimes, and other times, if he gets his knee in the wrong position, he feels it, and the pain is so severe, he can’t do anything for a while. These things happen in sport.”
Gibson said Edwards was more than capable cover for Roach and felt there was more than enough firepower in the 15-member squad.
“Fidel was a member of the squad that played in the recent ICC World Twenty20 Tournament and he has been bowling [in club cricket in his native Barbados], so his bowling fitness will be right up there at its peak,” said Gibson.
“Along with Ravi Rampaul and Tino Best, we feel confident that they will all be able to do a good job for us in the Tests, whichever combination is selected.”
Wed, Oct 31, '12
Talks are set to resume later this week over a contentious transfer fee issue between the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).The TTCB is supposed to collect transfer fees for three of its IPL players - Kieron Pollard, Sunil Narine and Dwayne Bravo.
The sharing of the transfer fee was a bone of contention between the TTCB and the players selected to represent T&T at the CLT20, before their departure for South Africa.
The TTCB is supposed to receive US$150,000 for each of the three players from their respective franchises after they were named in their franchise teams for the CLT20.
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Tue, Oct 30, '12
It is a wonder why Courtney Walsh is not considered as great a fast bowler as his predecessors or contemporaries. In 2000, he went past Kapil Dev’s tally of 434 Test wickets, and stood at the summit for four years. True, he had legendary contemporaries: if you made your debut alongside Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Joel Garner, and once they quit, they were replaced by the likes of Curtly Ambrose and Ian Bishop, it’s not really your fault that you have to pursue an entire career as a stock bowler, bowling into the wind.
He was not as intimidating as his colleagues, but he outlasted them all, turning out to be the most durable of the crop: 519 Test wickets at 24.44 along with 227 ODI wickets at 30.47 (and an economy rate of 3.83) meant that he was up there with the very best. Walsh survived like no one else did. He bowled 30,019 balls – a tally of 5,003.1 overs – the highest ever by any fast bowler in the history of the game. He was the workhorse around whom the West Indian pace attack was formed. His 132 Tests seems an almost impossible feat for a fast bowler.
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Mon, Oct 29, '12
The new playing conditions for Tests, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) will come into effect with the series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand which starts in Pallekele on Tuesday 30 October.
The amendments have been approved by the ICC Board following proposals made by the ICC Cricket Committee at its meeting in London in May.
It is important to note that the playing conditions are applicable to international cricket and must be read together with the Laws of Cricket. Whilst a playing condition may affect the Laws of Cricket as they may apply to international cricket, these changes are not amendments to the Laws of Cricket themselves.
The amendments to the playing conditions are:
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