Sat, Mar 31, '18
West Indies' chairman of selectors Courtney Browne has defended his panel's decision-making process, stating that "selectors' judgment is based on sound selection criteria" in light of the depleted squad chosen for the three-match Twenty20 International series in Pakistan starting on Sunday (April 1).
Browne, who took over from the legendary Clive Lloyd in 2016, commenced his controversial chairmanship stint by sacking double World Cup-winning captain Darren Sammy, developed a policy trend in last two years that has left many Windies fans, media and possibly players generally befuddled.
He made a rare public media comment outside his usual press statements via Cricket West Indies communications emails.
Browne was asked to clarify with both regular captains Carlos Brathwaite and Jason Holder as to why Jason Mohammed was chosen to be captain for the Pakistan series when he was dropped during World Cup qualifiers, over the recalled Denesh Ramdin, who leads Mohammed in domestic cricket for Trinidad & Tobago.
Thu, Mar 29, '18
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has confirmed the 13-member WINDIES squad for the imminent Tour of Pakistan which features three Twenty20 Internationals on April 1, 2 and 3 in Karachi.
SQUAD
Jason Mohammed (Captain)
Samuel Badree
Rayad Emrit
Andre Fletcher
Andre McCarthy
Keemo Paul
Veerasammy Permaul
Rovman Powell
Denesh Ramdin
Marlon Samuels
Odean Smith
Chadwick Walton
Kesrick Williams
Thu, Mar 29, '18
Captain Sanjay Walker scored a half-century yesterday as Jamaica began the 2018 West Indies Regional Under-15 cricket tournament with a 73-run win over Leeward Islands at Melbourne Oval.
Walker's 51 formed the backbone of the hosts modest total of 150, and wrist spinner Jordan Johnson later snared 4-11 to dismiss the Leewards for 77.
Scores: Jamaica 150 (42 overs); Leeward Islands 77 (35.2 overs).
Walker said he was grateful for the win after a top-order collapse from his team.
“We trained hard for this and we knew that to how [well] we trained we would have won this match. We worked hard, but the top-order batsmen didn't give us the start that we expected,” he told journalists in a post-match interview.
“I didn't feel any pressure; I just planned to stay out there and bat for my team, and I did that,” Walker added.
Steve Liburd, the Leeward Islands Under-15 coach, said he was let down by his team's performance, particularly the 47 extras conceded.
read more at Jamaica Observer
Thu, Mar 29, '18
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Tickets for the highly anticipated threematch Twenty20 series between Pakistan and West Indies went on sale in Karachi yesterday, but with the first match set to bowl off Sunday, Cricket West Indies are yet to confirm the series or announce a squad for the historic tour.
The series will represent the first time a major Test-playing nation will tour Pakistan, following the 2009 terrorist attacks on a Sri Lanka team bus which injured several players and left several of the security forces dead.
Since then, Pakistan played their home series in the United Arab Emirates.
The series against the Windies comes as the Pakistan Cricket Board looks to revive tours of a country once marked by the volatility of separatist violence.
To date, however, CWI are yet to even acknowledge the staging of the series which bowls off in four days, or make any public pronouncements on the security situation in Pakistan.
Wed, Mar 28, '18 by ALBERT BALDEO
“It is far more than a game, this Cricket” - Sir Neville Cardus
“The Australian public has a line, too. And with their culture of sledging, whingeing, hypocrisy and arrogance, our cricketers have been head-butting it for so long that they have become an insufferable national migraine” - Bryon Coverdale, Australian journalist
The fundamental nature of cricket being a gentleman’s game is memorialized in the preamble to the MCC's laws of cricket relating to "the spirit of the game," which make it a breach "to direct abusive language towards an opponent or an umpire" or "to seek to distract an opponent either verbally or by harassment with persistent clapping or unnecessary noise under the guise of enthusiasm and motivation of one's own side."
Australian players are by far the chief culprits who front up to their opponents like street thugs, chins thrust out aggressively, the adrenalin pumping, are you talkin' to me attitude. Their abuse on the field was so gross that South African batsman and captain, Faf du Plessis, said they were like a “pack of wild dogs,” while former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe decried their “thuggish" behavior. However, Australian authorities have been unwilling to clamp down on them, but now the wheels have fallen off.
"I think a lot of what they're copping at the moment comes from the way they have played their game," England’s coach Bayliss, an Australian, said. "It's almost like teams and people around the world have been waiting for them to stuff up so they can lay the boot in. I don't think you can say when any culture has changed. It's one of those things that continually, over a period of time, builds and builds and unfortunately on this occasion it's gone too far… including the Cameron Bancroft-Jonny Bairstow head butt incident in Perth.”
Steve Waugh started it all as captain, with his ''mental disintegration'' of the opposing team after Ian Chappell inaugurated modern sledging. Although he was a tough, uncompromising captain, attitudes have sunk way below the line he drew, although his physical assault on Vic Insanally at Bourda, and his baring of his naked butt (“mooning”) to Sir Don Bradman almost terminated an otherwise impressive career.