Wed, Aug 14, '13
Desmond Haynes, the former West Indies opener, has thrown his full support behind the Twenty20 bandwagon permeating throughout cricket today. Haynes, who once held the world record for the most ODI runs (8648), is currently coaching the Barbados Tridents in the first edition of the Caribbean Premier League. He highlighted the tournament as a case study of success.
"People focus too much on the cons and negatives but how many people look at the positives (of T20s)? This needs to come out more," Haynes said. "If I had T20 cricket to play in my day, I'd have jumped at it. Do you know how hard it was to earn a living back in my day? You had to travel all over the world to earn a living outside the international game. A lot of cricketers didn't get the chance to see their families often and to see their kids grow up. T20 offers the financial means to ply your trade and make a living, especially for younger players."
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Wed, Aug 14, '13
North Sound, Antigua - Sheldon Cotterell disarmed the Barbados Tridents on Tuesday night to set up a crucial victory for the Antigua Hawksbills, and that’s no pun, seeing Cotterell is part of the Jamaican Defence Force.
Ideally, it was a stern performance from the big man who has been gaining fans along the way. He seemed to have just carried on from the Queen’s Park Oval where he impressed against the T&T Red Steel.
His spell of 4-0-20-4 led the home team to chase a meagre target of 98 runs to win. It can be said the Antigua Hawksbills made more work of their target than it looked like it required at the halfway stage.
The first and most important result on the night was a victory for the hosts, then they could have looked at Net Run Rate. But Johnson Charles seemed to look at the latter first. In the first over, he smashed Shakib Al Hasan for 10 from two balls after getting off the mark with a couple.
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Mon, Aug 12, '13
St George’s, Grenada – The two top rated teams in West Indies Women’s cricket – Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago will clash in the final of the West Indies Cricket Board Women’s Super50 final at Tanteen in Grenada on Wednesday August 14.
The two teams headed the points tally of their respective groups with Jamaica hauling in 15 points in Group A winning all three of their matches. Trinidad and Tobago also had a clean sweep of Group B, accumulating 14 points. Guyana (7 points) came second in Group A and Barbados (10 points) took the runner up slot in Group B.
Both semi final matches were rain affected.
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