Mon, Nov 17, '14
Jacobs 7-wicket haul pilots Jamaica Franchise to victory
AN impressive seven-wicket haul by leg-spinner Damion Jacobs piloted Jamaica Franchise Team to an intriguing 13-run victory over Windward Island Volcanoes on day three of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Professional Cricket League (PCL) Four-Day Tournament at Sabina Park yesterday.
Red Force fighting to stay alive
T&T Red Force will be battling today to avoid losing their first match of the WICB Professional Cricket League, when their clash against Barbados Pride enters the final day at the Queen’s Park Oval.
Following on 264 runs behind, Rayad Emrit’s men closed on 165 for three—still needing another 99 runs to make Barbados bat again with seven wickets in hand.
Bishoo spins Jaguars to thumping win
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana Jaguars defeated Leeward Islands by an innings and ten runs on the third day of their WICB Professional Cricket League first round match at the National Stadium at Providence here Sunday.
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Mon, Nov 17, '14
BOWRAL, Australia, CMC – Teenaged opener Hayley Matthews carved out here third successive half-century but it did little to prevent West Indies Women’s losing skid from continuing, as the Caribbean side plunged to an eight-wicket defeat in the third One-Day International here Sunday.
Defending 220 for seven, West Indies watched helplessly as Aussie captain Meg Lanning stroked her fifth one-day hundred to power the hosts to their target in the 44th over, to complete a comfortable victory at Bradman Oval.
Sun, Nov 16, '14 by TONY BECCA
It is written somewhere in the Good Book that you reap what you sow. That, however, and obviously does not mean anything to the West Indies cricketers who recently embarrassed the West Indies in India.
Surprisingly, eight of them, eight of the players who recently and unceremoniously pulled out of the tour to India, including Test match captain Denesh Ramdin, have been selected by the West Indies to tour South Africa, a tour that takes place even before the dust of shame has settled over the West Indies.
What is surprising, however, based on the West Indies history, is that all of the players who were in India were not selected, including the ring leader, ODI skipper Dwayne Bravo.
Maybe the plan was to pick some and omit some while hoping to get away with it.
Sun, Nov 16, '14
BAD DAY FOR T&T
The dark clouds looked ominous at Queen’s Park Oval yesterday, but it was the Barbados Pride that first made good on their threats, condemning the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force to 89 for seven, still 271 runs behind on first innings at the end of Day Two of their WICB Professional Cricket League four-day encounter.
The few fans on hand at the Tragarete Road, Port of Spain venue could only watch on in horror as yet another embarrassing top order collapse effectively put the home side out of the contest, barring a miraculous fightback today. First, captain Kraigg Brathwaite returned to defy T&T with a towering 182, leading the Bajans to a healthy total of 360, then pacers Carlos Brathwaite and Kemar Roach put the Red Force batting to the sword, the first five wickets falling in the space of 20 runs.
The rain finally showed up briefly, and only a gritty top score of 26 (81 balls) from Yannic Cariah allowed T&T to resume their first innings today.
Jamaica in driver's seat at Sabina Park
Debutant fast bowler Marquino Mindley and spinner Nikita Miller were again the stars of the show for Jamaica Franchise on yesterday's second day of their WICB Four-day Professional League clash against Windwards Volcanoes at Sabina Park.
Mindley, who ended day one with three for seven, and made a third best score of 43, went on to finish with five for 35 in the Windwards total of 110.
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Guyana Jaguars in sight of full points against Leewards
THERE is an old saying in Guyana, ‘When you catch a pacu yuh bust he back and fill it with salt’, and certainly the Leon Johnson led Guyana Jaguars did just that in their first round West Indies Cricket Board/Professional Cricket League four day encounter against the Leeward Islands yesterday.
Playing at the Guyana National Stadium where they resumed the second day on 230 for 5 with Narsingh Deonarine on 73 and Christopher Barnwell 24, the home team rallied to score 343, with Deonarine hitting an unbeaten 110, his 10th first class ton.
Sat, Nov 15, '14
The three cricketers whose names were inadvertently taken by Justice TS Thakur in the 2013 IPL corruption case in the Supreme Court on Friday have, in fact, been cleared by the Mudgal committee.
It has been confirmed by a reliable source close to the case that the three cricketers were not party to any wrong doing and that their names had been emphatically cleared by the committee report.
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