Kavesh Kantasingh grabbed five for 19, Amit Jaggernauth snatched three for 16, Imran Khan took four for 38 and Yannic Cariah had four for 13 as spin bowling dominated the opening day of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board three-day trial match at the National Cricket Centre in Balmain, Couva yesterday.
Kantasingh and Jaggernauth, playing for the Justin Guillen XI, joined to send the Jason Mohammed XI packing for 63 in 43.2 overs.
Then leg-spinner Cariah and Khan kept their team in the contest by restricting the Guillen XI to 77 for nine at the close of play yesterday. read more at Trinidad Express
Worries over the weather spoiling the first ever ODI in Nelson were eased when the sell-out crowd was greeted by blue skies and bright sunshine on Saturday morning. The rain did arrive, but only after the match was well out of West Indies' reach and ended up curtailing a massive mismatch, the sort of ODI which cries out for shortening.
New Zealand finished on 285, two more than what they plundered in Queenstown, though this time they had the full 50 overs and produced a more conventionally paced innings. It was a combined effort from New Zealand's batsmen, with each of the top four making 47 or more, though only Martin Guptill went on to a half-century, top scoring with 81. read more at ESPNcricinfo
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies women’s team will have a full camp in New Zealand ahead of their eight-match series next month. The World Cup runners-up will arrive in New Zealand on Monday, February 10 and will have a one-week camp as they prepare to face the White Ferns in three One-Day Internationals and five T20 Internationals.
The ODIs will be played at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln. The first three T20s will be at Queens Park, Invercargill, with the tour concluding at Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui with the last two T20s. The series will form part of the preparations for the ICC Women’s World T20 in Bangladesh in March and April.
The International Cricket Council is testing a new review system for TV umpires that aims to improve accuracy and reduce the time taken to reach their decisions.
The Officiating Replay System (ORS), developed by Hawk-Eye, is being assessed by former elite panel umpire Simon Taufel, who is acting as a shadow umpire on the ICC's behalf in the ongoing Pakistan vs Sri Lanka Test match.
Without influencing the decision-making of TV umpire Sundaram Ravi, who has just one monitor and one camera angle of the onfield action at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Taufel is able to view the direct feeds from all 16 cameras at the ground on two giant screens. read more at Jamaica Gleaner
Captain Dwayne Bravo put an end to speculation around the powerful opener by confirming he would miss the tour-ending Twenty20 internationals in Auckland on January 11 and Wellington on January 15. Allrounder Darren Sammy (hamstring) was booked for an MRI scan today but Bravo said he was essentially out of the tour after suffering the injury at warmups for game three.
In an interview before the fourth ODI, Captain Dwayne Bravo put an end to speculation around the powerful opener by confirming he would miss the tour-ending Twenty20 internationals in Auckland on January 11 and Wellington on January 15."Chris has a while to go. There's a lot of cricket to be played in 2014 for us and we don't want to rush him back too soon." said Bravo.
