Wed, Nov 25, '15
West Indies allrounder Kieron Pollard will miss the remainder of Cape Cobras' Ram Slam T20 Challenge after injuring his right knee during the clash against Knights in Paarl.
Pollard picked up the injury while turning quickly to field a ball, but despite experiencing discomfort, he returned to bat in the second innings, hammering 23 off 12 balls to power his team to a four-wicket win. A CSA release later confirmed that Pollard will return to the Caribbean on Wednesday for treatment.
read more at ESPNcricinfo
Tue, Nov 24, '15 by ERROL TOWNSHEND
If you thought things couldn't get worse for West Indies cricket, it just did. A panel of eminent, highly successful Caribbean personalities have just expended a mountain of labour and produced a mouse of a report. It has recommended the dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board, to be replaced on a permanent basis by, ahem, ahem... the panel does not say. The report puts into elegant language a highly unoriginal recommendation that has emanated from Caribbean rum shops for the past 20 years. Seldom before has a bowler achieved what this panel has -- a wide and a no ball in the same delivery.
Enough is enough. It's not complicated:
(a) cricket is a sport
(b) success in any sport -- more sponsors, fans, positive vibes -- comes from winning, which we have not been doing for 20 years
(c) winning on the cricket field means that your players are batting, bowling, and fielding better than the other team
(d) to do that you need better coaches, more enlightened selectors, tougher local competitions and, in our case, an analysis of our cricket history
Tue, Nov 24, '15
Head coach of the Leeward Islands Hurricanes Reginald Benjamin is asking the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to rule his team’s eight-wicket loss to Windward Islands Volcanoes null and void and replay the match.
The coach’s revelation comes after the four-day match ended after just two days of play with Leeward Islands declaring at 24 for seven on the first day citing a “poorly prepared pitch” at Windsor Park in Dominica.
“I would prefer if we play over the game and we go from there,” he said. “And as one of the former players, who played at the highest level asked, ‘if that was the kind of wicket they want you to play on and perform and then select you to the West Indies, then you will never be selected’; and I can agree with that comment,” he said.
According to the coach, he officially protested the match in which only 386 runs were scored in four innings.
read more at Antigua Observer
Mon, Nov 23, '15
Jaguars vs Pride
Georgetown, Guyana, November 23 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Guyana Jaguars beat Barbados Pride by nine wickets shortly before tea on the fourth and final day of the third round WICB PCL first-class match at the Guyana National Stadium today.
Set 40 to win, Guyana scored 43 for one off 7.4 overs.
The not out batsmen were Assad Fudadin on nine and Leon Johnson, 20.
report and scorecard at bcacricket
Red Force vs Scorpions
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – John Campbell stroked an unbeaten half-century to complete an extraordinary day and a Man-of-the-Match performance as Jamaica Scorpions easily beat Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by six wickets here Monday, to go second in the Regional First Class standings.
Set 156 for victory on the final day of the third round match at Queen’s Park Oval, Scorpions were safely guided to their target by opener Campbell who hit 83 in a matured innings.
full report and scorecard at windiescricket