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Former chief executive officer of the Cricket West Indies, Johnny Grave, says he was not in agreement with CWI’s decision to name Daren Sammy head coach of all formats of the West Indies.
Sammy, who captained the Windies to victory in the 2012 and 2016 T20 World Cups, has been in charge of the white-ball sides since May 2023.
From April 2025, he will also take over Test duties, replacing Jamaica’s Andre Coley.
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Captain Kraigg Brathwaite and Jonathan Drakes recorded centuries as Barbados Pride dominated day one of their second round game in the West Indies Championship against West Indies Academy on Wednesday.
Playing under lights in the “pink-ball” contest at Kensington Oval, veteran Brathwaite struck an unbeaten 143 to mark his 33rd first class hundred while Drakes, 30, hit 117 – his second century at this level – the pair propelling the hosts to 354 for three at the close.
The 32-year-old Brathwaite, who missed the opening round due to Test commitments in Pakistan, faced 241 balls and struck 14 boundaries in a chanceless innings which spanned nearly six-and-a-quarter hours.
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JOHN CAMPBELL stroked an impressive century but the Scorpions still shared honours with the Leeward Island Hurricanes, while Combined Campuses and Colleges’ (CCC) batsmen produced a solid outing against the Guyana Harpy Eagles on the opening day of the second round of matches in the West Indies Championship yesterday.
At the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: Skipper Campbell scored his seventh first-class hundred and Brad Barnes hit an unbeaten half-century for the Scorpions, but they relinquished control of their contest against the Hurricanes after suffering a lower-order collapse to end the day on 306 for nine.
Campbell made 126 from just 150 balls and the Scorpions were cruising at 199 for two at one stage, before pacer Jeremiah Louis and spinners Rahkeem Cornwall and Hayden Walsh Jr bowled the Hurricanes back into the match.
Campbell shared an opening partnership of 79 with Carlos Brown, who made 22, and then 84 with Kirk McKenzie for the second wicket, to put the Scorpions in the driver’s seat at 163 for one.
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Cricket West Indies (CWI) unveils an action-packed schedule for the senior Men’s and Women’s teams from May to December 2025, featuring a mix of home and away fixtures. Fans can now start planning for an exciting year of cricket, with the men beginning their campaign with limited-overs tours in the United Kingdom.
The Men’s team will continue its preparations for the 2027 ICC Cricket World Cup, starting with a three-match One-Day International (ODI) series against Ireland from May 21-25 in Malahide, Dublin. Four days later, they will face England in a bid for back-to-back ODI series wins, with three ODIs scheduled from May 29 to June 3. This will be followed by three T20 Internationals (T20Is) against England from June 6-10, before concluding the UK tour with three T20Is against Ireland in Belfast from June 12-15.
The Men in Maroon will then shift focus to Test cricket, with the start of the ICC World Test Championship cycle under new head coach Daren Sammy. They will battle for the prestigious Frank Worrell Trophy against Australia in a three-match Test series, beginning in Barbados (June 25-29), before moving to Grenada (July 3-7) and concluding in Jamaica (July 12-16).
In a joint statement on Tuesday (February 4), the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) expressed a commitment to attend a special Cricket West Indies meeting on February 9 to discuss the proposed resolutions to amend the Articles of Association.
On December 6, the two territorial boards did not send representatives to the planned ” pivotal” shareholders meeting.
The meeting was to vote on implementing the governance reforms recommended by the Wehby Report, compiled by a group headed by Jamaican business executive Don Wehby.
The meeting failed to come off because the required quorum was not met.
In a subsequent statement, the two boards stated in part, “The BCA and GCB rejected the Wehby Report on the basis that it seeks to relinquish power from the territorial boards.”
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