Bangladesh 'A' beat HPC by 6 wickets in first T20

Bridgetown, Barbados, June 14 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Bangladesh 'A' beat Sagicor West Indies High Performance Centre (HPC) by six wickets in the first Twenty20 match at Kensington Oval today.
 

Blackwood and Johnson in, Samuels and Powell out for second Test

Following the failure of the batsmen in both innings of the first Test against New Zealand, the West Indies selectors have chopped Marlon Samuels and Kieron Powell, replacing them with Jermaine Blackwood and Leon Johnson. Fast bowler Jason Holder has also been named to the squad. The second Test starts in Trinidad at Queens Park Oval on Monday.

Squad:

Denesh Ramdin (captain)
Sulieman Benn
Jermaine Blackwood
Kraigg Brathwaite
Darren Bravo
Shiv Chanderpaul
Kirk Edwards
Shannon Gabriel
Chris Gayle
Jason Holder
Leon Johnson
Shane Shillingford
Kemar Roach
Jerome Taylor

How Will The West Indies Cope Without Chanderpaul?

The very thought of Shivnarine Chanderpaul not playing international cricket in the near future may be enough to send shivers down any West Indian fan's spine.

Not only has Chanderpaul been the anchor of the West Indies' middle order for the last two decades, but he has also become the player the team relies upon when they find themselves in sticky situations.

Chanderpaul, who made his Test debut at the age of 19, is renowned for his unorthodox batting stance. In fact, he revealed that he adopted the stance when he was just a youngster and has stuck with it throughout his career since it would allow him to see the ball clearly with both eyes.

Despite the cricketing community branding his stance as ugly and "crab-like", Chanderpaul has silenced all his critics by letting his bat do the talking.

Dwayne Bravo misses out again

The West Indies cricket team, trailing 0–1 in the current Test series against New Zealand, will have to do without the services of allrounder Dwayne Bravo after he again damaged his hamstring and will be out for up to a month. Bravo was called up for a preparatory camp to prepare for the current series in Barbados. The right-hander took active part in the camp but was declared not fit enough to take on the rigours of a five-day Test match. He was expected to be in the fray for the second Test that begins on Monday at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain but re-injured his hamstring and will now not be available to make his much anticipated return to Test cricket.

read more at Trinidad Guardian

Gibson on thin ice

Of all the national head coaches in place when he was appointed by West Indies in October 2010, Ottis Gibson is the only one still standing.

Australia have gone from Tim Nielsen to Mickey Arthur to Darren Lehmann. Jamie Siddons has moved on from Bangladesh, as have Mark Greatbatch from New Zealand, Corrie van Zyl from South Africa, Waqar Younis from and back to Pakistan, Gary Kirsten from India.

Alan Butcher ended his stint with Zimbabwe after the West Indies tour last year. England shifted Andy Flower from his role of team coach, where he was highly rated, to technical director of elite coaching after their recent Ashes drubbing in Australia.

So Gibson remains the exception to the global trend of a regular turnover of coaches.