Mon, Nov 11, '13
The West Indies Cricket Board today sent special birthday greetings to one of the best batsmen to represent the West Indies Team.
Seymour Nurse the prolific Barbados and West Indies batsman from the 1960s celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday – making him one of the oldest surviving West Indies cricketers.
Nurse was a classy right-handed middle order batsman who played 29 Test matches. He made 2,523 runs and averaged 47.6 runs per innings. He made six centuries including a best of 258 in his final Test innings in New Zealand in 1969.
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Sun, Nov 10, '13
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) :Cricket fans across the Caribbean, and possibly North America, could see more matches in the 2014 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Twenty20 Tournament.
Commercial director of the CPL, Jamie Stewart, said that given the extra time available for planning, the organisers want to increase the number of matches.
"We had three months to put together the 2013 event. We could have waited until 2014, but we wanted to put out what we had immediately to signal that we were here and will be here to stay for a very long time," Stewart was quoted in the Trinidad Guardian.
"This short time allowed only a certain number of matches, but with 10 months to plan the 2014 event from the last day of the 2013 event, we decided to bring more parity to the event in terms of having each team play others the same number of times."
He said that with extra matches being played, some of the other territories would now get a chance to bid for matches.
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Sun, Nov 10, '13
Unless you’re something of a cricket geek, you may not have heard of Eldine Baptiste. He was one of the Ordinary Joes in an extraordinary West Indies team. Not ordinary like you and me, but unremarkable when compared to the legends he shared a dressing room with. During the unforgettable Blackwash summer of 1984, he certainly had his moments. He made 87 not out in the first Test at Edgbaston, and then at Lord’s – a match remembered for Gordon Greenidge and Larry Gomes cruising past a target of 342 on the final afternoon – he ran out Geoff Miller, middle stump, no less, from nearly 80 yards away.
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Sat, Nov 9, '13
MUMBAI, India – Fast bowler Kemar Roach has been ruled out of the remainder of the West Indies’ tour of India due to a shoulder injury.
West Indies team physiotherapist C.J. Clark said it was an injury which is uncommon among cricketers.
“Kemar has not made the expected recovery from the shoulder injury that kept him out of the first Test and he is returning to the Caribbean for ongoing management and subsequent physical rehabilitation,” said Clark.
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