HEADLINE: Chase to bolster Pride squad for semifinal clash

THE BARBADOS Pride will have the services of West Indies all-rounder Roston Chase when they face defending champions Trinidad & Tobago Red Force in the first semifinal of the Regional Super50 tomorrow.

Chase was previously unavailable, as he was part of the West Indies squad that played England in the just-concluded One-Day International and T20I series which ended on Sunday.

While Chase’s addition will be welcomed, Barbados will be without their captain Kyle Mayers as well as Kadeem Clarke, who have been granted leave to take part in the upcoming Abu Dhabi T10 tournament.

“The national selection panel has confirmed that Roston Chase and Shian Brathwaite will join the Barbados Pride squad as replacement players for Kadeem Alleyne and Kyle Mayers respectively,” the Barbados Cricket Association stated in a press release yesterday.

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Are Lewis and Pooran playing for TT to even up that imbalance? Chase is likely to be much more useful than Myers was

In reply to PalsofMine

Chase = Lewis and Pooran?

Damn!

In reply to imusic

Hahahaha. Probably. Remember what he did to TT in the regionals?

In reply to PalsofMine

Pooran and Lewis heading to Abu Dhabi.

Chase will most likely be available for one match... he will be playing in the GSL.

Chase was once a decent batsman but t20 really messed him up

In reply to velo

chase was never a decent batsman. looked okay sometimes on slow low wickets in the west indies. looked awful like most of the other wi players when he travelled. I mean he does not average over 30 in test cricket or odis.

In reply to Jumpstart

Chase was never a batsman? The dude got a FC average of 43... how many batsmen in the region got a 40+ average?

You calling for Goolie, Jangoo and Greaves to be Kraigg replacement in another thread... which one of them got a better FC average than Chase?

Yes to date he underperformed at the international level but yuh can't seh d man was never a batsman when his numbers are better that all de guys you calling to be in the squad.

In reply to anthonyp


he averages 26 in tests, 25 in odis after 49 test matches and 42 odis. #rubbish

In reply to Jumpstart

Lol does that change the fact that the guy got a FC average of 43?

Did you miss the part where I mentioned that he has underperformed at the international level to date?

Greaves got a FC average of 27.. the others low 30s.

In reply to anthonyp


our fc competition is absolute rubbish. it falls right in the middle of the west indies away tours and as a result, the best players are never available. its a toss up between the upcoming players like jangoo and co and the dregs like devon smith and verasammy permaul.


hooper and samuels underperformed. they average 36 and 38 respectively. 26 aint underperforming breds. that is being found out

In reply to Jumpstart

So if the FC competition is rubbish and those guys still can't average in the 40s... do you honestly think they will do better at the international level?

As for Hopper and Samuel's... the region isn't producing talents like that anymore so we need to lower our expectations. If a WI batsman average over 30 these days at the international level it's considered nuff.

In reply to Jumpstart

Can you list the names of the great International players the region produced in the last 25 years?

In reply to openning

sarwan and gayle both average over 40. They played in the last 25 years. Darren bravo, after a CWI-induced stop-start still averages more than kraigg, hope, chase...all the passengers he was carrying while there. Marlon samuels, despite his 36 career average, averaged just under 50 for the last 6 years of his career from 2011 t0 2016, scoring runs against the very best attacks as well as the mediocre. in fact in 2011 and 2012, marlon could lay claim to being one of the best test batsmen in the game

In reply to Jumpstart
But does have five test centuries

In reply to velo
which means that wen he doesn't score a hundred, he scores nothing if his avg is 26. 5 hundreds in 90 innings is exceptionally poor

In reply to Jumpstart



I consider Gayle great, Sarwan above average, and I will not discuss Darren.
With over a thousand cricketers that have represented the territories in the last 25 years, you named three and continue to pair Barbadian cricketers' stats to get your point across.
I asked you this question during this year's CPL: Why are Barbadian cricketers being selected more than any other region on regional teams, with Barbadians contracted on every team in the CPL?
In 1975, one of the greats reminded me that cricket in Barbados is an amateur sport. Having played in the BCA, I got it.
Clubs rely on membership dues, once you can afford it, you don't have to worry about being dropped.
There is no competing for playing positions within the club structure anymore; a player just moves to another club.

Promotion and demotion are good with large populations. Also, an Elite and 1st division will add nothing to the product; it is just bragging rights for the old members of the clubs.
Barbados cricket will rise again.

In reply to openning


they are mentioned because only two other players in the last 25 years have played a similar amount of tests...ganga played 48 and devon smith played 43. hinds played 43. and devon smith, hinds and ganga oscillated around gayle so they rarely had uncontested extended runs in wi colors. for example, ganga looked good in South Africa in 1998, even if the runs weren't there, but found himself out the team in favor of lincoln roberts, dave joseph and suruj ragunath(a team jimmy adams said was given to lara who was told to captain it or else) for the next series versus Australia months later. Because of politics, and west indies exiling an entire generation of players, hope, kraigg and chase got extended runs. Kraigg himself was fourth in line when he first came into an understrength wi team:bharath, gayle and powell were all before him.


maybe because they're cheap. i certainly don't understand how Shaqkere Parris could play for TKR when both jangoo and goolie were available. And on that topic, TT for years was keeping cpl afloat: evin lewis played one season with tkr, rayad emrit never played for tkr, neither did jon russ jaggessar. pooran took almost a decade to return to tkr. ramdin, simmons, perkins and narine were with GAW for years

In reply to Jumpstart


Is the CPL not a private entity?
Please explain.

In reply to openning

every team had trinidadians because the ct20 was so uncompetitive and the competition would not be taken seriously if every team did not maintain a particular standard. of the xi that played the final of the last 2013 CT20 in february 2013, only three played for the red steel when they debuted that year: the two bravos and badree.

In reply to Jumpstart

We all watched the Standford series.
What I learned during that time was the unprofessionalism of players.
Stanford, who owned the Antigua team, set up rules like in the USA sporting affiliations, it got so bad with players owning the Antigua franchise every month that they had to stop the rules.

In reply to openning

Weak Bim team for semifinal Chase is lone quality player surprise if tits don't win semi easily.

Where JHO, Hope etc. Bim teams are less of a force year by year. Why compete if not in it to win it.

In reply to Castled


Injured.
It is time to move away from Raymond Reifer; he brings no value to the product.

Even worse, the Bajans and the Tits 'clash' in a semi-final match and there is no thread cover.