(Shiv Chanderpaul's lethargic captaincy under scrutiny; an
8-year-old wicket-taking machine and drama ahead of the T&T
cricket board elections highlight today's news from around the
region...)
Tony Cozier writes from Australia on how the outcome of
the ICC Super Series has affected the West Indies chances of
leaving Australia as a successful unit.
Cozier refers to comments made by former Australian captain
Ian Chappell, who went on the record saying: ""If Australia
had to go into the (West Indies) series without anything in the
interim they would have still had the doubts raised by their loss
to England hanging over them."
The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) has fired chief executive
Ricky Craig, CaribbeanCricket.com confirmed on Thursday.
Craig, who was hired by former BCA boss Stephen Alleyne as a
full-time employee of the national association, was dismissed after
turning down an offer of a three-month contract extension.
(The West Indies team arrives in Australia; Digicel squeezes
some free publicity from Brian Lara's batting genius and the
Stabroek News screws up a copy-and-paste job...)
The West Indies cricket team has arrived in Brisbane, via London
and Sydney, ahead of its three Test series against Australia.
Speaking to the media on arrival, coach Bennett King told
Reuters that the major problem faced by his squad is inexperience
rather than inability saying, "Eleven of the players are 25 and
under. There's only two that are over 30 and they're our most
experienced players. They're really dedicated and they work hard
and I've been really happy with the progressions that have been
made to date."
The "Friends of Cricket," led by former West Indies Test
wicket-keeper Deryck Murray, are contesting all positions in the
Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board at the elections schedule for
November 29.
Murray was born on May 20, 1943. He has played for Queen?s Royal
College, Queen?s Park Cricket Club, Cambridge University,
Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire and West Indies. In 62 Tests , he has
scored 1993 runs,with a highest score of 91. He had 189 victims
behind the wicket.
West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Roger
Brathwaite has been lying low, avoiding the headlines since the
revelations of the Lucky report were leaked, er, released, but has
broken his apparent public silence by coming out to praise the
Windward Islands Cricket Board for a strategic planning session
held in St Vincent last Sunday.
Why wouldn?t he be all smiles when one of the items on the
meeting?s agenda was the "complex issue of planning and financing
the WICB and its future operations".
