The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Hurricane Ivan has devastated Grenada's National Stadium Complex that houses the New Queen's Park cricket facility.
The Stadium Complex, completed in early 2000 with a finished product that made it one of the best sports facilities in the entire English-speaking Caribbean, suffered severe damage from the hurricane which made a direct hit on Grenada.
West Indian cricketers have been shut out of the individual ICC 'Oscars' Awards announced in London on Tuesday but two familiar Caribbean names were included in the official World XI ODI Team of the Year.
West Indies captain Brian Lara and opener Chris Gayle were the two West Indians named in the ICC World ODI XI, which will be captained by Australian Ricky Ponting.
The last three West Indies coaches, Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall and Roger Harper, have lamented the fact that the younger generation cricketers are no longer willing to listen or learn.
The premise of this article is the current underperformance of the West Indies cricket team is not the primary issue; rather the sub-par performance of our cricketers in international cricket is symptomatic of a much more deep rooted sociological issue, in that the average West Indian male has lost his way within the evolving Caribbean civilization and the West Indies cricket team just represents a microcosm of what is happening, or not happening, to the archetypal sub-35 year old male within the wider Caribbean society.
We are not surprised that our exclusive report that experts from the International Cricket Council (ICC) had rejected the architect's drawings for Guyana's World Cup stadium has stirred up a hornet's nest.
The powers that be have taken to issuing wordy press releases with crafty denials, and lazy Caribbean journalists are only too happy to publish the 'official' response without even reading them.
Earlier this week, Dominican umpire Billy 'Toshack' Doctrove celebrated a major promotion when he was picked to officiate in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy in England.
As he prepares for his latest high-profile assignment, Umpire Doctrove found some time for a wide-ranging chat with CaribbeanCricket.com about ?hawkeye?, batsmen who ?walk? and questions about preserving the role of the traditional umpire?