The WICB and WIPA have released the list of award winners from the fourth West Indies Cricket Board/West Indies Players’ Association awards ceremony held on Tuesday night at Hangar 10 in Antigua.
In addition to the individual awards, members of the West Indies Under-19 team, West Indies Women’s team and West Indies men’s team received special commemorative rings.
The Under-19s won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in when thy beat India in the final at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh on February 14.
The men and women won the ICC World T20 titles on the April 3 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India. The women beat Australia eight wickets to win their first world title. The men beat England six wickets in dramatic fashion to lift the trophy for the second time.
AWARD WINNERS Under-19 Team of the Year: Guyana Under-19 Player of the Year: Shimron Hetmyer First-class Team of the Year: Guyana PCL 50-over Player of the Year: Jason Mohammed PCL Four-day Player of the Year: Veerasammy Permaul Caribbean T20 Player of the Year: Dwayne Bravo ODI Player of the Year: Marlon Samuels Women’s ODI Player of the Year: Stafanie Taylor Test Player of the Year: Darren Bravo T20 Player of the Year: Chris Gayle Women’s T20 Player of the Year: Stafanie Taylor Emerging Player of the Year: Jomel Warrican WICB Lifetime Achievement Award: Clarvis Joseph WIPA Lifetime Achievement Award: Ralston Otto Women’s Player of the Year: Stafanie Taylor Cricketer of the Year: Marlon Samuels
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Coach of Trinidad and Tobago’s women cricket team, Gerald Garcia, has criticised cricket officials in Guyana for not selecting a new venue to play the finals of the WICB Regional Women’s Super-50 Championship on Sunday.
T&T were crowned new title-holders after the final against Barbados was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of wet conditions caused by heavy overnight rain at Everest.
T&T were entering the finals at the top of the standings on 12 points, one higher than Barbados after 12 of the 16 matches were completely washed out.
Two days before he was to face an anti-doping hearing, Andre Russell was in fearsome form, which meant Jamaica Tallawahs finished on the right side of a thrilling game against Trinbago Knight Riders, not to mention on top of the points table as well. The fans at Sabina Park had to watch their team twiddle their thumbs until the start of the 18th over. But 119 for 6 became 158 for 7 with Russell at the helm. He made sure to face eight of the final 12 balls of the innings and finished with 44 off 24 with five fours and three sixes. Russell came out with a new bat, bright pink in colour drawing comparisons with the bright gold bat his captain Chris Gayle had used in the Big Bash League. The experiment didn't last too long though, he asked for something a little less flashy two balls into his innings. The third disappeared for four.
With a number of South African internationals set to complete their Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) stints, the tournament organisers have confirmed a list of three replacement players for the remainder of the tournament.Barbados Tridents duo AB de Villiers and Wayne Parnell, as well as Dale Steyn of the Jamaica Tallawahs, have been recalled by Cricket South Africa to fulfill a contractual obligation to attend the annual Cricket South Africa/South African Cricketers Association Awards ceremony which takes place in Johannesburg.
Both de Villiers and Parnell made a winning contribution to the Tridents in their last game on Sunday night when they helped the home side defeat the St. Lucia Zouks by 25 runs. The duo will be replaced by Pakistan’s Ahmed Shehzad and Proteas fast bowler Marchant de Lange, respectively. Shehzad is expected to link up with the Tridents squad ahead of their next game against Jamaica Tallawahs in Sabina Park on Wednesday and de Lange will be available from the St. Lucia leg.
FORMER West Indies fast bowler, Reon King agrees that the upcoming Test series between West Indies and India will definitely be a tough challenge for the Caribbean side.West Indies are currently languishing at number 8 in the Test rankings, just above Bangladesh, and King, who took 53 wickets in his 19 Tests, pointed out that India have a formidable batting line-up and the contest will be equally tough against the Indian spinners. “Definitely West Indies young brigade need to step up. They were given an opportunity to play in their own backyard, and to play against a quality team, so they must answer their call,” King revealed.The 40-year-old King added “West Indies are still in transition phase, but playing at home certainly will give them some boost. While the series will be challenging, I think ‘patience’ will be the key word, but having said that, India, on the other hand, are also going through a transition phase. They too have a young team,” King pointed out.
