Bridgetown, Barbados, February 19 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Barbados Pride were bowled out for 274 off 88.3 overs in their first innings after winning the toss against Guyana Jaguars on the opening day of their seventh round top-of-the-table WICB PCL first-class match at Kensington Oval today.
Shamarh Brooks and all-rounder Kevin Stoute jointly topscored with 56, the latter being unbeaten.
Brooks batted for 166 minutes, faced 122 balls and struck seven fours and one six. It was his fifth half-century, along with one hundred, for the season.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbadian import Kirk Edwards stroked his second successive half-century while Shacaya Thomas gathered one of his own in his first appearance of the season but Jamaica Scorpions lost late wickets to surrender a position of strength on the opening day of their seventh round clash against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force on Friday.
Opting for first knock at Sabina Park, the hosts were 111 for one at one stage but lost wickets in the middle session and then at the end, to decline to 197 for six at the close.
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas (CMC) — Persistent rain allowed a mere 25 overs on the opening day of the seventh round clash between Leeward Islands Hurricanes and Windward Islands Volcanoes here yesterday.
Despite the numerous players vs board controversies that has inflicted West Indies cricket since the team descended into terminal decline in 1995 - 2015 will have to go down as a champion year in world of off-field controversies.
Events from the embarrassing India tour pull started a chain reaction of endless issues, which commenced with Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard being axed from the 2015 World Cup squad. This followed the first CARICOM government's condemnation of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) by Grenada and St.Vincent Prime Ministers Dr Keith Mitchell and Ralph Gonzales, while Dave Cameron was re-elected as president despite majority opposition from Caribbean media and fans.
By mid-2015, the selection panel, led by West Indies legends Clive Lloyd and Courtney Walsh, began to show the first signs that they were losing the plot by axing of Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the home series versus Australia. A host of other shocking selections followed, highlighted most notably by Denesh Ramdin being strangely sacked as Test captain and young Jason Holder given the burden.
The bombs kept going off to end the year with coach Phil Simmons suspended for publicly admonishing the board for "outside interference" in preventing Bravo and Pollard from being picked. Domestically, the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket board, learning from their WICB elders the art of erudite administration, took away the captaincy and contracts from then-captain Rayad Emrit, Kevon Cooper and Evin Lewis due to them playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.
Andy Ganteaume's is not a name numbered among the great West Indies batsmen. His peculiar distinction is based on the instructive circumstances of his exclusion after scoring a hundred in his solitary Test innings, against England in 1948 in his native Trinidad, and, equally bizarrely, his selection on the tour of England nine years later, when he was 36.
Even with West Indies cricket in its constant state of turmoil, it is impossible to imagine such a scenario in the present day. Ganteaume, a black civil servant, was a popular sportsman in Trinidad, a regular player in the national cricket and football teams. Yet he had no players' association to represent his cause, no indignant public to protest on social media, no team-mates to raise a hue and cry on his behalf. That was how it was back when a white hierarchy held sway in every aspect of life in the cricket-playing British colonies; it would only change over the next two decades with the advent of political independence.
"He was a real gentleman and a great friend," Sir Everton Weekes, now the only surviving member from Ganteaume's Test and, 91 on February 26, West Indies' oldest Test cricketer, said on hearing of Ganteaume's passing on Wednesday. "He was never argumentative but would listen to what anyone had to say with understanding, if not necessarily agreement."
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — West Indian all-rounder Kevon Cooper was yesterday reported for a suspect bowling action in the ongoing Pakistan Super League in Dubai, the first instance of this kind in the Twenty20 league.
The 27-year-old, who has yet to play international cricket for the West Indies but had featured in first-class cricket for his native Trinidad and Tobago, was reported during Tuesday’s game between Lahore and Quetta in Dubai.
The Pakistan Super League (PSL) release said Cooper had been put on a warning list for the moment.
“Lahore bowler Cooper has been reported for suspect action by match officials,” said a PSL release.
BRIDGETOWN - World Under-19 champions West Indies returned to the Caribbean on Tuesday afternoon to a heroes’ welcome, following their triumph last Sunday at the ICC Youth World Cup in Bangladesh.
They were greeted at the Grantley Adams International Airport here by Barbados Cricket Association president and West Indies Cricket Board director, Joel Garner, along with WICB chief executive Michael Murihead.
Legendary West Indies opener Desmond Haynes, Barbados Sports Minister Stephen Lashley and Tourism Minister Richard Sealy also attended the welcome ceremony.
