ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – President of the West Indies Cricket Board Whycliffe “Dave” Cameron will host a series of public town-hall meetings around the Caribbean over a period of three months, starting this Friday in Barbados.
Cameron said it was part of the WICB’s plan to engage directly with the regional public on the issues facing the game in the region.
“We believe the public town-hall meeting is a great way to hear what people across the Caribbean have to say about the important issues facing their game,” he said.
“It presents a great opportunity for our stakeholders to learn more about initiatives which the WICB is working on at this time.”
He added: “We want to restore the public confidence in the WICB and we can only do this if we talk to our public – the fans, sponsors and our governments.
“We are looking to engage in open, honest dialogue with the public, so we encourage all to attend and actively participate, as we seek to rebuild West Indies cricket together.”
The first town-hall meeting will take place in Lecture Theatre 1 on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies, starting from 7 p.m.
Plans are already under foot to stage a second public town-hall meeting just prior to the first Test between West Indies and Australia in Dominica. Further details will be disclosed at a later date.
Except for a couple of clear-cut differences, Chris Gayle and Kevin Pietersen are two peas from the same cricketing pod.
Strapping, powerful six-footers, they are dynamic batsmen with imposing records across all formats; Gayle has a combined total of 71 hundreds, Pietersen 66. Both espouse a desire to continue representing their national teams even as they are in demand from various domestic T20 franchise leagues, whose mind-blowing contracts have earned the two men exceptional wealth.
Gayle enjoys life in his three-storied mansion in the hills overlooking his native Kingston; Pietersen delights in giving his Aston Martin a workout on the motorways of England, where he resides with his pop-star wife and infant son in luxury similar to Gayle's in Jamaica.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is a legend in the sport of cricket to my mind but I think he has stayed on far too long and in the end he would leave cricket as a player who did not time his exit as well as he did many of the 27,395 balls he faced in Test cricket.
The left hander is hanging around Test cricket at the age of 40, and 277 days and counting, as he need just 87 more runs to surpass Brian Lara and become the leading run scorer for West Indies in Tests. Lara hung-up his bat at 11,953 runs during his career and Chanderpaul has 11,867 at the moment. He was chosen to play against England recently but failed miserably, as he did in South Africa (averaging around 16 in the two tours).
A week after Sydney Thunder revealed it had rejected an approach from Chris Gayle’s agent, another Big Bash club has recruited the West Indies superstar.
Melbourne Renegades have signed the West Indies “master blaster” for next summer’s BBL season.
Former Test skipper Gayle is set to form an explosive opening combination with Renegades captain and Australia’s Twenty20 skipper Aaron Finch.
News Corp Australia reported last week that Gayle had been offered to a number of Big Bash teams but some, including the Thunder, weren’t keen to sign him despite his phenomenal record in Twenty20 cricket. read more at Fox news
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CMC) -- West Indies Women suffered a six-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka Women in the second One-Day International (ODI) of a four-match series at the R Premadasa Stadium here yesterday.
The Windies women crumbled under spin attack to be all out for 124 in 42.3 overs, leaving the Sri Lankans to recover from a poor start before cruising to victory in 39.2 overs.
Stafanie Taylor played a brilliant innings to resurrect her side, but was unlucky, while captain Merissa Aguilleira ran out of partners.
Shashikala Siriwardene with an outstanding all-round performance and spin partner Maduri Samuddika wrecked the Windies innings, as both players took six wickets between them.
