St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board today clarified a number of issues relating to Mr Kieran Powell who recently issued a statement.
1. At the time he requested a leave of absence in June 2014, Mr Powell was a contracted employee of the WICB with certain contractual obligations.
2. At no time was any officer of the WICB or Team Management furnished with the details of Mr Powell’s personal issues.
3. WICB officers repeatedly attempted to contact Mr Powell via his personal phone and email following his departure from the team. To date Mr Powell has not furnished the WICB with personal contact details.
Three days earlier, the crowd in Johannesburg had feasted on an AB de Villiers world record; in what was only Buffalo Park's third ODI in nine years, the townsfolk of East London had to suffer a mismatch, concluded in spots of drizzle. Truly, the big cities get all the fun.
East London took their pleasure in Hashim Amla and Faf du Plessis, lording it over the West Indies attack for unbeaten half centuries as the match was wrapped up with more than 41 overs unused, not so long after some had come in from work.
Kevon Cooper's career-best 62 not out took Trinidad & Tobago to a 49-run win over Leeward Islands at Port-of-Spain, clinching the top spot in Group B for T&T while eliminating Leewards from contention for the semi-finals. Cooper's previous List-A top score was an unbeaten 17, but after entering with the score 114 for 6 he peppered the boundary through cover and point to lift his side to 206, a good recovery after T&T had lost the toss and were sent in to bat.
Earlier in the innings, Dwayne and Darren Bravo teamed for T&T's best partnership - 62 runs for the fifth wicket - to get their side back on course after a rocky start left them 45 for 4 in the 16th over. Gavin Tonge dismissed the opening combo of Evin Lewis and Nicholas Sookdeosingh and finished with 3 for 33.
Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
Jamaica clinched a semi-final spot against Guyana on Thursday with a nine-wicket win over West Indies Under-19 at Couva. Jamaica inserted the junior side in to bat and struck three balls into the game as Marquino Mindley had Shimron Hetmyer caught behind without scoring, one of his two wickets on the day.
Guyana will play Jamaica , while Trinidad &Tobago will face CCC in the semi-finals
Late drama as CCC scrape into semis Port of Spain, Trinidad - The Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners pulled off a sensation one-wicket victory over the Guyana Jaguars with Christopher Powell hitting a boundary off the penultimate ball of the match to take his side home.
Set a small target of 172 runs, the Marooners struggled in their chase, consistently losing wickets along the way. Paul Palmer kept up the inning with a patient knock of 32 from 94 balls but once he went, the Marooners slipped back into trouble.
With a tense finish in sight, Ravmon and Christopher Powell took the Marooners to within touching distance of victory. Powell hit an aggressive 31 from 30 balls but it would be Christopher that turned out to be the hero.
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – West Indies batsman Johnson Charles stroked a career-best hundred to help Windward Islands Volcanoes beat Barbados Pride by 55 runs and eliminate the defending champions from the NAGICO Super50 here Monday.
Watching from the luxury of my couch and after hearing numerous accounts from respected cricket people, there is a growing concern that David Warner's thuggish behaviour has gone too far. Soon one day it will lead to an incident that will sully the game for good.
No one, let alone an umpire, who has enough on his plate in the international game, wants to have to reprimand or babysit a bunch of boorish, childish adults during play for these ugly spats that are becoming commonplace. But they need to. Before things escalate the ICC needs to arm the officials with everything possible to stop the idiots who are ruining our enjoyment of the game.
