AUCKLAND, New Zealand – West Indies fast bowler Ravi Rampaul will miss the two Twenty20 Internationals against New Zealand on Saturday and Wednesday.
Rampaul flies home to Trinidad from Auckland on Sunday due to a thumb injury he sustained during a training session prior to the fourth One-day International last Saturday at Saxton Oval in Nelson.
“Ravi has sustained a fracture and we are looking to allow optimal healing rather than pushing an early return,” said West Indies physiotherapist C.J. Clark.
“He will return home to allow the fracture time to heal and will commence fitness training in preparation for the Regional Super50 Tournament, starting later this month in Trinidad.”
There will be no replacement for Rampaul in the West Indies T20I squad, which has now been reduced to 14.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Defending champions Windward Islands will face Jamaica on the opening day of the NAGICO Super50 2014 Tournament on Thursday, January 30 at Queen’s Park Oval.
This will be the first match of what promises to be an action-packed tournament featuring 15 games in just over two weeks. The matches will be played at the historic Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain and the picturesque Shaw Park in Tobago.
The Final will also be played at the Oval on Saturday, February 15 with Sunday, February 16 as the reserve rain day.
Dear Sirs, Albert Einstein told us many years ago that the definition for insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This might mean that most of you running West Indies cricket are probably all a little crazy because not much has changed in the things we do for the last decade and a half, yet we hope to be world-beaters. Orville Higgins writes in his open letter to the West Indies cricket hierarchy.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Nine of Antigua & Barbuda’s top cricketers have been included on a list of 28 sub-regional players as they prepare for a 12-day training camp to be staged in St Kitts from January 16 to 27.
Justin Athanaze, Rahkeem “Jimbo” Cornwall, the young Alzarri Joseph, Sylvester “Bouncing” Joseph, Anthony “I-Roots” Martin, Orlando “Baby” Peters, Mali Richards, Devon “Boobie” Thomas and Gavin Tonge have all been named in the line-up. read more at Antigua Observer
Injured opener Chris Gayle is set to captain Jamaica at this month's West Indies NAGICO Super50 tournament to be staged in Trinidad and Tobago.
Information reaching The Gleaner is that Gayle was recommended for the post by the national selection panel, and this was ratified by the Jamaica Cricket Association during a board meeting yesterday.
The decision to appoint Gayle, according to the source, was ratified after the board was briefed by the panel as to the state of his hamstring injury, as well as his availability.
