Fri, Jan 31, '20
When Leonardo Julien, the West Indies U-19 wicketkeeper-batsman was growing up, he would play backyard cricket with his two brothers. But they wouldn't go easy on young Leonardo, who was the youngest of the trio. The brothers would bowl at him with the hard rubber ball, and one day a delivery hit him so hard that he remembers throwing his bat away and running back into his house.
"Come back", Julien remembers his father shouting at him. "Only babies cry."
It was at that very moment that Julien's perspective as a cricketer changed.
"That incident toughened me up," Julien tells ESPNcricinfo. "After that, I realised I need to be stronger. I developed my game such that no one could beat me for pace moving on. No one could make me cry."
Read more at ESPNcricinfo
Fri, Jan 31, '20 by KRISSANIA YOUNG
Ljupka Cvetanova — “Things are always either black or white. The grey in-between is only a confusion.”
Talent
The cricketing nation as called the ‘West Indies’, in their history, has had many a problem. Lengthy as that list of problems might be, you’ll never find a place for ‘talent’ thereon. And while we could argue the indexical nature of one’s temperament in regards to one’s talent, let’s forgo that for one moment and see Evin Lewis. Not look at, but see—Trinidadian, left-hander, opener, aggressor—Evin Lewis.
Evin Lewis made his debut for the West Indies in March of 2016, during that year’s ICC World Twenty20, featuring in WINDIES’ solitary loss in the tournament, against Afghanistan in Nagpur. Having gone on to represent the region an additional eighty-two (82) times, in thirty-one (31) T20 Internationals (T20I) and fifty-one (51) One-Day Internationals (ODI), it is safe to say that the left-hander has made himself a permanent fixture in the West Indies limited overs side.
Thu, Jan 30, '20
St.John’s, Antigua - Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Ricky Skerritt has been appointed to the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) World Cricket Committee, which meets twice a year to discuss the most important issues in the game and acts as an independent voice in world cricket.
Skerritt joins England’s All-time leading run scorer Alistair Cook as new members after former West Indies fast bowler and current commentator Ian Bishop, and Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al-Hasan stood down from the committee.
Thu, Jan 30, '20
Denesh Ramdin returns to the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force team for the fourth and fifth rounds of the Cricket West Indies Regional Four-Day tournament.
The 34-year-old will bolster the batting lineup which failed in the 219-run defeat by the Guyana Jaguars in round three. Trinidad and Tobago will be on the road against the Windward Islands Volcanoes and Barbados Pride before returning home.
Full squad at Red Force
Thu, Jan 30, '20
Chris Gayle has announced that he will be part of the fourth edition of the Everest Premier League, Nepal's domestic T20 tournament. The West Indies batsman said he would be playing for Pokhara Rhinos in the tournament, which is scheduled to begin on February 29.
"I will be visiting Nepal for the biggest sporting event, the Everest Premier League," Gayle said in a video message on Twitter. "Come and support my team Pokhara Rhinos and be part of a magnificent cricket fiesta."
Gayle, who returned from a hamstring injury to play for the Chattogram Challengers in the second half of the Bangladesh Premier League, made 144 runs in four games. He was also part of Jozi Stars' disastrous Mzansi Premier League campaign last season, following which he took a "break" from cricket for the rest of 2019, even expressing his unavailability to the West Indies selectors for the ODI series in India. During a recent media interaction in Dhaka, the 40-year-old said that he will continue playing T20s for a while yet.
Read more at ESPNcricinfo