The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Lahore Qalandars: Sunil Narine,
Islamabad United: Andre Russell, Samuel Badree
Quetta Gladiators: Carlos Brathwaite,
Peshawar Zalmi: Darren Sammy (captain), Dwayne Bravo, Andre Fletcher , Evin Lewis
Multan Sultans: Kieron Pollard, Darren Bravo, Nicholas Pooran,
Hurricanes vs Jaguars
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, (CMC) – Veteran former West Indies left-hander, Shiv Chanderpaul, carved out a phenomenal 77th first class hundred and passed 27 000 runs career runs, as he rescued Guyana Jaguars and forced a draw on the final day of their Regional four-day contest against Leeward Islands Hurricanes here Sunday.
Starting the day on 53 for two – still requiring 153 runs to avoid an innings defeat – Jaguars found a hero in the 43-year-old Chanderpaul who hit a stellar 109 as the visitors rallied to 305 for seven deep into the final session, to frustrate the hosts.Wicketkeeper Anthony Bramble chimed in with an unbeaten 57, captain Leon Johnson got 41 and fellow left-hander Vishaul Singh, 35.
Off-spinner Terrance Ward (2-43) and leg-spinner Nkrumah Bonner (2-52) both finished with two wickets apiece but Hurricanes failed to conjure up that incisive spell to hurt Jaguars.
Guyana Chronicle has the full report
Red Force vs Volcanoes
The Red Force had posted a massive 402 all out in their first innings before bowling out the Windwards for 166 on day two and 259 on day three, to leave a winning target of just 24 runs for TT to make.
Williams, speaking to Newsday yesterday, praised captain Denesh Ramdin (116), Jason Mohammed (113) and Kyle Hope (68) for putting TT in command early in the match.
“I think it is something that we actually planned.
“We came here for that (victory) and the guys delivered. I thought the batting set us up for what happened today. In every game, we need to get 20 wickets, getting 402 and getting 20 wickets, it is a good feeling,” he said.
Williams, who replaced Gus Logie at the helm, explained it was an automatic decision to bring Mohammed and Hope into the team at the expense of Marlon Richards and Ewart Nicholson.
Scorpions vs Pride
Persistent rain in Kingston marred the day-night encounter between Jamaica and Barbados, forcing a draw despite bowling-friendly conditions. Only 32.3 overs were bowled on the first two days. Left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican took 3 for 22 to give Barbados hope of an outright win, but Jamaica closed their second innings at 98 for 6 in 48 overs as time ran out.
ESPNcricinfo has the scorecard and report
He seemed indestructible once but now there’s a fragility about the West Indian whose 100mph pace and relentless swing propelled him into cricket’s pantheon more than half a century ago.
Sir Wes Hall relies on a stick – and friends – for the balance he always displayed when soaring into his delivery stride, the gold cross around his neck trailing out behind him as he went: a ‘ballet dancer’ as someone once called him.
Yet for just a moment in Tuesday’s late afternoon light, as he gazed across the pitch at Accrington Cricket Club, the 80-year-old’s human limitations seem to melt away.
He ducks under the perimeter rope and is off, hobbling out on his own to the square where, for three seasons in the early 1960s, he would run in with the wind at his back. (He arrived from the Highams End, named after a local cotton manufacturer. It accentuated his swing, he always felt).
Those who are here to chaperone Sir Wes see that he has gone and set off in panicked pursuit. Everyone fears a fall. But he is already halfway out to the middle, prodding the turf with his stick.
As they reach him, he asks: ‘Why you worryin’?’ – wearing the big smile of a man who has found lost treasure: long-buried memories of a time and place which are suddenly flooding back.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – A landmark hundred from Devon Smith failed to prevent Trinidad & Tobago Red Force from galloping to a 10-wicket victory inside three days over Windward Islands Volcanoes in the Digicel 4-Day Championship on Saturday.
Smith achieved the rare feat of carrying his bat for the third time in the modern history of the Windies first-class championship (1966 onwards) to log his second hundred of the season.
Penetrative bowling however, from left-arm fast-medium bowler Daniel St. Clair and leg-spinner Imran Khan undermined the rest of the Volcanoes’ batting in the second innings, leaving Red Force with a negligible target to chase in their third-round contest at Queen’s Park Oval.
Meantime, table leaders and three-time reigning champions Guyana Jaguars were engaged in a bitter fight for survival against Leeward Islands Hurricanes at Warner Park, and Barbados Pride made hay while the rain stayed away in their day/night clash with Jamaica Scorpions at Sabina Park.
Windies are confirmed to play a three-match T20I series in Lahore in March next year, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi announced at a press conference on Saturday (November 11).
All three matches - on March 29, 31 and April 1 - will be played in Lahore.
The tour - which was supposed to happen in November this year - had to be rescheduled to next year due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. "There were talks to play the series in November, but due to unforeseen weather, we didn't take the risk," Sethi said in Lahore.
Sethi announced that both cricket boards - PCB and CWI - have mutually agreed upon playing T20Is against each other for the next five years in Pakistan and the USA. The reciprocal series in USA in 2018 will be a tri-series, with the third participant yet to be finalised.
"Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have signed an agreement to play a series of T20Is, each year for the next five years in Pakistan and in the United States, subject to availability of dates. WICB will send its full-strength national team in 2018 and will play three T20Is [on] March 29, 31 and April 1.