Mon, Dec 15, '14
Perth, Australia - A bumper crowd has packed Perth’s Aquinas College to watch some of the greats of past and players of the present as the Perth Scorchers beat the Australian Legends by 50 runs in the WA Festival of Cricket Twenty20.
The match pitted the KFC T20 Big Bash League reigning champions Scorchers against an all-star Legends XI led by Adam Gilchrist, but it was the youth of Ashton Turner that stole the show in a match that featured West Indies champion Brian Lara and Australian legends Dean Jones, Andrew Symonds, Andy Bichel and Michael Kasporwicz.
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Mon, Dec 15, '14
Sydney: Australia will play two Tests in the Caribbean next summer in the lead-up to their defence of the Ashes in England. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced the fixtures on Monday, allotting the two Tests for the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy to Dominica and Jamaica.
The tour will not have any limited-overs matches owing to Australia's crammed international calendar. A three-day tour match in Antigua will precede the first Test starting June 5.
Mon, Dec 15, '14
West Indies chief selector Clive Lloyd has criticised the shortage of warm-up games on the current tour of South Africa, and says modern-day itineraries left little room for player development.
Lloyd, the outstanding former captain of the 1970s and 80s, was speaking ahead of Wednesday’s start of the opening Test, following the only warm-up match of the three-Test series. “I’ve always wanted two four-day games in the tour. I’ve said that to the West Indies and the ICC. I think one game is not enough,” Lloyd told reporters.
West Indies last week faced a South Africa Invitational XI in a three-day game, their only chance at match preparation for the series. Even then, rain washed out Friday’s final day, leaving the tourists with just two days of cricket.
Mon, Dec 15, '14
The task force appointed by the WICB to assess the contracts dispute involving the players, WIPA, and the board, which led to the abandonment of West Indies' tour of India in October 2014, has said that all three parties were at fault. The task force - comprising Michael Gordon, Wes Hall and Richard Cheltenham - said it was imperative that "WICB must now build pillars of trust and respect with the players", and that the WIPA had a "very real role to play" in this process.
The West Indian players pulled out of their tour of India after four ODIs, leading to the abandonment of the fifth one-dayer, a Twenty20 international and three Tests. The dispute between the players on one side, and WIPA and WICB on the other, however, had begun even before the first game. In several letters written to the WICB, West Indies ODI captain Dwayne Bravo had expressed displeasure over the new player contracts, wanted the old ones back in place, and had also demanded that the WIPA chief Wavell Hinds resign. When neither of these conditions was met, the players abandoned the tour.
The task force appointed by the WICB to assess the contracts dispute involving the players, WIPA, and the board, which led to the abandonment of West Indies' tour of India in October 2014, has said that all three parties were at fault. The task force - comprising Michael Gordon, Wes Hall and Richard Cheltenham - said it was imperative that "WICB must now build pillars of trust and respect with the players", and that the WIPA had a "very real role to play" in this process.
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Sun, Dec 14, '14
The Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on Friday announced a new initiative for the 2015 edition, geared towards providing an opportunity for the best U-19 cricketers from the Caribbean and developing players from the International Cricket Council (ICC) Associate Members in the Americas region, to make the final squad of one of the six franchises taking part in the tournament.
One player from the ICC Associate Members in the Americas region will be assigned to each of the franchises and invited to the training camps held ahead of the tournament.
The young cricketers will join four Under-19 West Indies players, who will also be assigned to each of the franchises and attend the training camps.