Fri, Jun 19, '15
Mustafizur Rahman’s five-wicket haul on debut helped the Tigers outplay the two-time world champions by 79 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.
The hosts made an impressive 307 after electing to bat first before their bowlers bundled out India for 228 to take a 1-0 lead in the series in style.
The win took Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s side to 91 points, to go past West Indies in the ODI team ranking.
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Thu, Jun 18, '15
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The ongoing work of the West Indies Retired Players Foundation (WIRPF) is set to get a major boost as it stages the inaugural charity golf day in Barbados.
The WIRPF – a joint initiative of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and (WIPA) – will host the event at the prestigious Sandy Lane Country Club. The event is supported by CPL and Digicel, on Sunday, June 21.
Several former West Indies players including Desmond Haynes and Sir Richie Richardson, as well as current players will take part in the day’s competition – to raise funds for the programmes of the WIRPF.
Several senior officials of the International Cricket Council as well as participants in the Caribbean Premier League tournament are also scheduled to participate.
The West Indies Retired Players Foundation was formed 18 months ago and part of its mandate is development of programmes and assisting with the welfare of former players who represented the Caribbean team at the international level. Proceeds from the Golf Day will go towards projects of the Foundation.
Thu, Jun 18, '15
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – International players Narsingh Deonarine, Kirk Edwards and Ryan Hinds headed the list of imported draft choices, when the Player Draft of the WICB Professional Cricket League took place today here.
Deonarine, Edwards and Hinds were the three eye-catching picks, as selectors from each of the six franchises were stipulated for the second edition of the Draft to pick a minimum of two players from outside of their home territory, unlike the inaugural edition last year.
Deonarine, the Guyanese left-handed batsman, who also bowls off-spin, is expected to be a big boost for the Leeward Islands Hurricanes which finished last in the six-team Regional 4-Day Tournament and failed to reach the knockout stages of the NAGICO Super50 Tournament.
Thu, Jun 18, '15
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Half dozen players with Test match experience have been included in the list of 90 entered in the Player Draft of the West Indies Cricket Board Professional Cricket League.
The Player Draft, which has been organised with the goal of achieving an equitable distribution of the available player talent in the Regional 4-Day and NAGICO Super50 tournaments, takes place tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, at the Accra Beach Hotel in Barbados, starting at 1 p.m.
Leeward Islands Hurricanes will make the opening selection.
They will be followed by Trinidad & Tobago Red Force, then the Jamaica Franchise, Windward Islands Volcanoes, Barbados Pride and reigning Regional 4-Day champions Guyana Jaguars.
This sequence will be repeated for each of the five rounds of draft picks. Each franchise must pick a player in each round and will have two minutes to select the player. Where a selection is not made within the stipulated time, the offending franchise will miss their turn and must wait until all other franchises have made their selection in that round before making its selection.
A total of 30 players will be drafted. The remaining players will be available for Pay-For-Play contracts at the discretion of the various franchises.
Fans can view the “live” webcast of the Draft on the WICB’s website, www.windiescricket.com.
Wed, Jun 17, '15
Not one ticket has yet been sold to a Test match in Australia this summer. In fact, no dates have been announced — except the two that need no announcement, Boxing Day in Melbourne and the New Year match in Sydney — and no one has really noticed.
All that is known is that New Zealand will be here for three Tests in November, the shoulder season, and the West Indies for three in December and January, prime time. A month ago, that felt like the wrong way around. Now, it feels like a snub to the Kiwis and the incorporation of a month-long bye at the height of the cricket season.
Whether Australia was exceptionally good or the Windies lamentably poor in their two just completed Tests doesn't matter. It is impossible to think that their contests will be any closer here. It would be nice to believe that the West Indies could guarantee the presence of, for instance, the ever reluctant Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo, but they cannot. The Windies can't even necessarily guarantee to stay for the duration. Eight months ago, they walked out of a tour of India.
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