The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Grenadian leg-spinning all-rounder Rawle Lewis has been named captain of the Windward Islands cricket team for this year's Busta Cup competition. The Windwards will meet Bangladesh 'A' in St. Kitts in round one, which bowls off on January 25.
The Windward Islands Cricket Board, which announced the captaincy,
said the full squad will be named on Friday.
Brian Lara is hoping to return to action from a fractured elbow in time for India's tour of the Caribbean beginning in March.
The West Indies batsman sustained the injury to his left arm
against Sri Lanka last month but has now had a plaster cast
removed.
The West Indies 'A' team will play six first-class and eight
one-day games on their seven-week tour to England which begins on
June 10.
According to the West Indies
Cricket Board, the schedule includes a three-day game against
India and a one-dayer against Sri Lanka. Both Asian teams will be
touring England this summer.
Are you ready for this one? Roland Holder's first-class cricket
career isn?t over yet.
The experienced middle-order batsman, who has been discarded by the
Barbados selectors, was yesterday appointed captain of the West
Indies ?B? team for the forthcoming Busta Series.
Carl Hooper has just completed another disastrous Test series as
captain. Sri Lanka, the team which was the whipping boy of
international Test cricket not so long back, defeated the West
Indies by three Tests to nothing. One more case of a whitewash. Or
a brownwash, if you like to call it that.
Remember, when Hooper took over, it only took a few Tests before
the great commentator Colin Croft was describing him as the man who
could turn out to be a combination of Clive Lloyd, the late Sir
Frank Worrell, and Sir Vivian Richards!