Mohammad Amir, Shoaib Malik and Sandeep Lamichhane will be playing at the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League which takes place in St Kitts & Nevis in August and September.
The Barbados Tridents have secured the services of Pakistani left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir. With 220 T20 wickets to his name, 59 of them coming in international matches, Amir has a huge amount of experience and a track record of success across the globe.
Shoaib Malik returns to the Guyana Amazon Warriors. Malik was central to the success of the Amazon Warriors in 2019 when they won 11 consecutive matches. Malik has played 417 T20 matches and won 12 trophies in the format.
LAHORE, Pakistan (CMC) — Shimron Hetmyer's gradual isolation from Test cricket continued Saturday when he was signed by Multan Sultans for next month's continuation of the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
The left-hander, along with T20 World Cup winner Johnson Charles, was picked up by the franchise in a replacement draft staged online earlier this week.
Hetmyer was one of several West Indies players who returned to the Caribbean earlier this month after the lucrative Indian Premier League was suspended due to the country's COVID-19 crisis.
Significantly, the Guyanese was not included in a 30-man squad selected to participate in a three-week high-performance camp in St Lucia, in preparation for the two-Test series against South Africa bowling off June 10 in the Caribbean island.
Hetmyer has not played a Test in one-and-half years and averages just under 28 from 16 matches which have seen him score five half-centuries.
West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach ended his five-game stint in the English County Championship on a high on Saturday taking nine wickets in Surrey’s drawn match with Middlesex.
Roach, 32, took 4 for 61 as Middlesex, chasing Surrey’s first innings score of 190, were bowled out for 160. Jordan Clarke took 4 for 41 for Surrey that helped Roach undermine the efforts of Middlesex wicketkeeper John Simpson, who top-scored with 68.
“What can I say, My Surrey experience was amazing, nothing short of brilliant, but duty calls,” he posted on Instagram.
There are calls for West Indies cricket administrators to build on the regional team's climb up the world Test rankings by doubling down on development and grassroots programmes.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) released rankings last week that showed the Caribbean side had moved two places up to sixth — its best position in eight years.
“It shows that we are making steps in the right direction. Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the local boards must continue to put developmental programmes in place, so that younger players will be better equipped to deal with the pressure of international cricket,” said Junior Bennett, the head of Jamaica cricket's selection panel.
“Those development programmes must include more 'A' Team tournaments and Under-23 programmes in each territory,” he told the Jamaica Observer, reiterating that regional territorial boards must also play their part in readying players for the international level.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - Cricket West Indies (CWI) will host the West Indies Professional Cricketers Draft for the 2021/2022 cricket season on Tuesday May 25 via video call. The Territorial Board Franchises will be convening to draft their final two players for their squads to play in the forthcoming season which will hopefully include the CG Insurance Super50 Cup and the West Indies Championship.
The draft will be conducted over two rounds, where each franchise must pick a player in each round. Each franchise will pick two players to add to their pre-selected squad of thirteen (13) protected players, to make a full squad of fifteen (15) players. The franchises will be selecting their two picks from a pool of nearly 100 players.
For the 2021-22 season, each franchise will be allocated a pick number according to their final league position and performance of the franchise in the last West Indies Championship, held in 2019-20 and won by the Barbados Pride (see table below for the sequence of draft picks). Each franchise will have 90 seconds in each round to make a pick. Where a selection is not made within this time period, the franchise will miss their turn and will have to wait until all the other franchises have made their selection in that round, before making its selection.
