Initially, the match was reduced to a 38-over affair, in which the Windies A were bowled out for 193 runs just one over shy of the allotment. Just 13 balls into Sri Lanka's A chase, the rain returned and never stopped. The hosts were 8/1.
Opener, Kraigg Brathwaite, led the West Indies A's charge at the top of the order, hitting 63 runs from 87 balls. His knock included four boundaries. Jonathan Carter and captain Carlos Brathwaite also struck 39 runs each.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CMC) – Power-hitter Kieron Pollard put aside his wrangling with the West Indies Cricket Board and players union WIPA, to slam a typically scintillating unbeaten half-century as he helped propel Cape Cobras to a 14-run victory in the opening round of the Ram Slam Twenty20 League here yesterday.
The right-handed Pollard hammered 72 from just 36 balls as Cape Cobras, sent in, amassed 207 for five off their 20 overs. In reply, Titans made a game of it, reaching 193 for four, with openers Henry Davids and Dean Elgar both top-scoring with 72. Batting first, Cape Cobras got their early momentum from Richard Levi, whose 81 required just 34 deliveries and included seven fours and seven sixes.
SIR David Simmons and Sir Wes Hall asserted yesterday that they first learned through the press of their appointment to a task force to “deal with” the US$47.2 million claims of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the team’s premature withdrawal from last month’s tour of India. The new task force is unconnected to that proposed at the WICB directors’ emergency meeting in Barbados October 21 that was to review the overall circumstances of debacle in India. It is part of the so-called Hyatt Accord, an agreement forged at Friday’s meeting at the Hyatt Hotel in Port-of-Spain to end the three-way dispute between the WICB, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and the players in India under ODI captain Dwayne Bravo.
At 5 pm on Friday evening, West Indies cricket stood at the crossroads, however six hours later, there was a clear way forward out of the current mess. The meeting convened by Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves and included Grenadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell, West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron, players Dwayne Bravo and Denesh Ramdin, as well as their legal representative Ralph Thorne, was very successful.
The impasse that has brought West Indies cricket to its knees has been resolved – and the players on the aborted tour to India are returning to duty without fear of victimisation, the Barbados Nation is reporting
