Bridgetown, Barbados, November 6 - (www.bcacricket.org) - Barbados Pride were 262 for two off 96 overs in their first innings at the close of play after they were sent in by Jamaica Scorpions on the opening day of the first round WICB PCL first-class match at Kensington Oval today. The not out batsmen were captain Kraigg Brathwaite on 111 and Shamarh Brooks, 49. The 22-year-old Brathwaite's 14th first-class century came in 297 minutes off 256 balls and included seven boundaries. He reached his half-century in 222 minutes off 176 deliveries with three fours.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Another season packed with bright prospects and great opportunities for the region’s best players begins when the WICB Professional Cricket League Regional 4-Day Tournament opens on Friday.
It’s the second straight season of the R4Day under the franchise format, featuring 10 rounds of matches – the same as last season – played over the next five months between franchises drawn from the six territorial boards of the WICB.
The other teams will all be looking to unseat reigning champions Guyana Jaguars, last season’s most improved side, and claim the Headley/Weekes Trophy, the symbol of regional supremacy, as they try to develop the playing talent required for international competition for West Indies.
A fine 156-run stand between Kusal Perera and Lahiru Thirimanne helped Sri Lanka seal the three-match One-Day International series against the West Indies 2-0. The home side eased to an eight-wicket win by the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit second ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday (November 4). Perera narrowly missed out on a century, but his collaboration for the second wicket with Thirimanne (81) over 26.1 overs was a match-winning one in Sri Lanka's chase of a revised target of 225 in a game reduced to 38 overs a side. At one stage in the match, the West Indies was in a decent position at 149 for 4 in 27 overs. When play resumed after a three-hour rain break, it lost momentum and could manage no more than 214 in 37.4 overs.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Selection Panel today named leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo as the replacement for Samuel Badree for the upcoming T20 International Series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.
Badree was named in the original 15-man squad for the two-match series but is unavailable due to illness. The 34-year-old leg-spinner was a member of the Windies squad which won the ICC World T20 Championship in Sri Lanka three years ago.
Bishoo, who turns 30 on Friday, has made four appearances in T20s for the Windies. A former ICC Emerging Player-Of-The-Year, he has six wickets at 16.33 each. He earned one Man-Of-The-Match award on debut against Pakistan in St Lucia in 2011.
FULL SQUAD Darren Sammy (Captain), Devendra Bishoo, Darren Bravo Dwayne Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Johnson Charles Andre Fletcher, Jason Holder, Sunil Narine Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor
THE Independent Review Panel of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Sub-Committee on Cricket Governance has recommended that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) be disbanded and an interim committee installed to run the affairs of cricket in the region, the Jamaica Observer can report. The review panel submitted the report to Caricom last week after three months of consultations, during which it also conducted interviews and held deliberations. It was chaired by principal of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, Professor V Eudine Barriteau, and included president of the Caribbean Court of Justice Sir Denis Byron, former Trinidad & Tobago and West Indies cricketer Deryck Murray, president of the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Warren Smith, and president of the Grenada Cricket Association Dwain Gill. It worked through the Guyana-based Caribbean Community Secretariat.
