BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Faced with a busy 2022 schedule amidst the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Cricket West Indies (CWI) says managing risk will be a key factor for the organisation over the coming months in determining the success of its international commitments.
Chief executive Johnny Grave said the regional governing body was already braced for the challenges associated with staging multiple tours during a pandemic but believed it could do so while protecting the health and safety of players and officials.
“We've got a lot of cricket coming up in January,” Grave pointed out.
“We've got the Under-19 Cricket World Cup where we'll be hosting 16 teams from all around the world coming to the Caribbean, as well as Ireland who are coming into Jamaica for some white-ball cricket and also England in late January into Barbados for five T20s.
IT has become tiresome to hear the constant drivel of excuses and promises by West Indies’ cricket captains, after losing games regularly in all formats.
The habit is spreading to the younger players.
It is a negative mindset to constantly maintain that your team is going to take all the “positives” from the game. Be realistic, recognise the fact that WI are an inferior team. One has not only to understand that but accept it. It is the way forward, firstly, to realising how badly the team is performing.
What is necessary at present is deep analysis of the game, players, captains, coaches and managers, by competent, knowledgeable cricket people who can decipher what is required for success from the WI international teams.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced the match schedule for the Youth One-Day International Series between West Indies Rising Stars U19s and South Africa U19s. The teams will play four 50-over matches in St Vincent and the Grenadines from December 26 to January 3 at Arnos Vale Stadium and Cumberland Playing Field.
The West Indies and South African teams will arrive in St Vincent later today. The teams are using the series as preparation for the ICC Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup which CWI is hosting from January 14 to February 5 in Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, St Kitts and Nevis, and Guyana.
West Indies Head Coach Floyd Reifer said: “It’s great for us to have these matches as part of the build-up to the World Cup. We are really looking forward to this series against South Africa, as we are at the stage where it is important for the squad to play together, to see players in various roles, see how they respond to situations and how well they execute the plans we put in place.”
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies Women’s head coach Courtney Walsh says the Caribbean women will have to reset to get focused for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, following almost two weeks of quarantine in Oman.
The team last weekend returned to the Caribbean from Oman – where they had been quarantined for 11 days – via Namibia, following the cancellation of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe, due to the emergence of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 in South Africa late last month.
“That’s going to be the big challenge because we had a break and didn’t get to play as much cricket as we wanted to play for them to get that exposure, so I don’t want to use the words ‘starting over' but it is going to be something similar, where we are going to have to restart or reset and see how best we can get things going to have everybody clicking again,” he said.
The many days and nights playing cricket are memories that Jason Parris relishes
Walking home from Eagle Hall Primary on evenings as a child and rather than heading straight to his house, as his mother would have liked, Jason would instead scope out any cricket ground he passed in the St. Michael community hoping for the opportunity to play the sport that he loves. On the way, he might stop at Ferniehurst, or go across to Deacon’s Farm, even the cricket pitch at Westbury Road wasn’t too far for him to walk.
The many days and nights playing cricket are memories that Jason Parris relishes.
