HOBART, Tasmania – The management of the West Indies team today announced that fast bowler Shannon Gabriel has been ruled out of the ongoing Test Series against Australia in Australia.
The 27-year-old suffered a stress reaction in left ankle bone while bowling in the first innings of the first Test match at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart. He will return to Trinidad in the coming days to continue his rehabilitation. A replacement player will be named in the coming days.
Hapless, hopeless and helpless, West Indies collapsed to their second-heaviest defeat in Tests against Australia as James Pattinson marked his return with a five-wicket haul that destroyed the top order. Australia batted for the first four sessions of the match and lost only four wickets; West Indies batted less than four sessions and lost all their wickets, for both innings, crushed by an innings and 212 runs before tea on the third afternoon.
In the end the only real interest was whether Kraigg Brathwaite could reach a second-innings century and carry his bat, but even that proved a step too far. His fighting effort came to halt when he was bowled by Josh Hazlewood for 94, the wicket that confirmed the result as the West Indian No.11 Shannon Gabriel was unable to bat due to a foot injury. Brathwaite had scored 63.51% of West Indies' 148, the highest percentage ever by a West Indian in a Test innings.
Bridgetown, Barbados, December 11 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Barbados Pride were 272 for six off 90 overs in their first innings at the close of play after they were sent in by Leeward Islands Hurricanes on the opening day of the fifth round WICB PCL first-class match at Kensington Oval today. The not out batsmen were Roston Chase on 95 and Ashley Nurse, 22.
Scorpions vs Jaguars
Left arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul picked up two wickets for one run off five overs to lead Guyana Jaguars fight back against Jamaica Scorpions when the fifth round of the WICB Professional League 4-day tournament commenced yesterday.After being bowled out for 189 Guyana limited Jamaica to 63-4 at the close of day on day one at Sabina Park. Raymond Reifer and Christopher Barnwell have so far taken one wicket each; Andre Mc Carthy is on eight. Devon Thomas has so far top scored for the host with 30.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board confirmed today that Leeward Islands Hurricanes wicketkeeper/batsman Jahmar Hamilton has been penalised under the Code of Conduct, following the fourth round of matches in the Professional Cricket League Regional 4-Day Tournament which ended on Monday this week.
Hamilton was reported by umpires Nigel Duguid, Verdayne Smith and Rushane Samuels for a Level 1 breach of the Code of Conduct relating to showing dissent at an umpire’s decision by word or action during the match against Jamaica Scorpions at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
The penalty for this offence ranges from a reprimand to a fine of up to 50 per cent of the player’s match fee.
Hamilton admitted the offence and accepted the imposition of a fine of 15 per cent of his match fee.
First, there is Don Bradman and Bill Ponsford. Then comes Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh. Such is the list of all-time Test record partnerships for Australia after Voges and Marsh put on 449 against an insipid West Indies in Hobart. It was the highest fourth-wicket stand in Test history, and the sixth-biggest of the near 70,000 Test partnerships that have ever been compiled. By only two runs did the 451-run Bradman-Ponsford stand against England at The Oval in 1934 survive in first place among Australian partnerships.
Those are the facts, but here is the truth: it would have been criminally misleading for Voges and Marsh to have moved into top spot. In terms of size it was Australia's second-greatest partnership, in terms of quality it was not even close. That is no slight on Voges and Marsh but on the class of the bowling. In Adelaide last month their fourth-innings stand was 400 runs lighter, but arguably more meaningful as they held off the swing of Trent Boult and Doug Bracewell to set up victory.
