Sat, Nov 24, '12
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board today announced that there will be a total of 48 matches in the WICB Regional 4 Day and Super50 tournaments in the 2013 season.
The season will commence on February 7th with three Super50 matches in Antigua, Barbados and St Lucia. The 4 Day matches will commence on February 9th and run through to February 12th.
Barbados will host reigning double champions Jamaica (winner of both the 4 Day and Super50 in 2012) at Kensington Oval; Guyana will travel to the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua to play Leeward Islands and Windward Islands will take on Combined Campuses and Colleges at the Beausejour Cricket Grounds.
Trinidad and Tobago has gotten the bye for the first round.
Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the semi finals and final of the Super 50 in April.
The two teams with the most number of points after the preliminary rounds of the 4 Day will host the semi final matches while the final will be hosted by the team in the final with the highest number of points after the preliminary rounds.
The teams will compete for the Clive Lloyd Trophy in the Super50 and the Headley/Weekes Trophy in the Regional 4 Day. Jamaica has achieved the unparalleled feat of having won the Headley/Weekes Trophy for the last five consecutive seasons.
Sat, Nov 24, '12
Shakib Al Hasan had been Bangladesh's superman again. He'd bowled 52 overs in the West Indies first innings and become the second Bangladesh bowler to take 100 Test wickets. He had watched the first five Bangladesh batsmen disintegrate and proceeded to cut the 261-run deficit with thrilling, defiant strokes. But in the end, Shakib fell to the same lack of patience that plagues the Bangladesh Test line-up. He did not have the patience to sleep tonight three short of a Test hundred. First ball of the last over of the day, he charged Veerasammy Permaul, and holed out to mid-off. Shakib, along with Nasir Hossain, all but ensured West Indies would bat again,
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Fri, Nov 23, '12
Marlon Samuels shredded the Bangladesh attack in the morning, reached his maiden Test double hundred and then sat back to watch Shivnarine Chanderpaul breeze to his 27th century, which followed his unbeaten 203 in the Mirpur Test. The Khulna pitch refused to stand up for the third day running and apart from ruing their lack of luck, Bangladesh could do little else as West Indies piled on the lead. They did take two wickets, as they had on day two, but at the cost of 323 runs.
Almost unobtrusively, Darren Bravo reached his fourth Test hundred, all of which have come in the subcontinent. His partnership with Samuels swelled to 326, West Indies' sixth-highest ever, before Sohag Gazi ended it by trapping Bravo in front. The one between Samuels and Chanderpaul added 177.
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Thu, Nov 22, '12
On day one, No. 10 Abul Hasan had scored a debut hundred in a session in a partnership of 172 in 30 overs with Mahmudullah. On day two, Marlon Samuels scored his third Test century in 2012 in a partnership of 198 in 69.2 overs with Darren Bravo, who was 15 shy of his fourth. The difference, apart from the pace of scoring, was that West Indies still had eight wickets remaining
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Wed, Nov 21, '12
KHULNA (Bangladesh): Abul Hasan became only the second man in 135 years of Test cricket to hit a debut hundred batting at number ten on the opening day of the second Test against the West Indies on Wednesday.
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The 20-year-old left-hander was unbeaten on 100 and added an invaluable 172 runs for the unfinished tenth wicket stand with Mohammad Mahmudullah (72) to help the home team recover from 193-8 to 365-8 at close on the opening day.
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