The West Indian top three of Stafanie Taylor, Hayley Matthews and Shemaine Campbelle ensured a triumphant end to a challenging tour of Sri Lanka, as they anchored a six-wicket win in the third and final T20I in Hambantota to complete a come-from-behind 2-1 series win. Campbelle remained unbeaten at the end on a 30-ball 41 … Read more
West Indies captain Rovman Powell acknowledged that his team has areas to improve following a less than convincing victory over Papua New Guinea (PNG) in their 2024 ICC T20 World Cup opener on Sunday. The match, held at Providence Stadium, saw the West Indies narrowly reach their target, scoring 137-5 with six balls to spare … Read more
The players’ auction for the Lanka Premier League 2024 concluded successfully at a hotel in Colombo where rising Sri Lanka cricketer Matheesha Pathirana emerged as the most expensive player in the history of the competition. Only Matheesha Pathirana (US$ 120,000) elicited any sort of high level bidding war at the Lanka Premier League player auction … Read more
Kieron Pollard, a T20 World Cup winner with West Indies and captain as recently as 2022, now wearing an England training jersey instead. Pollard himself would not agree. “Cricket is a business,” he explains. “You have a job to do and you just try to do it to the best of your ability.” Such thinking … Read more
One of the most iconic players in world cricket Brian Charles Lara turns a year older today, 2 May. From 1990 to 2007, he played for the national team for 17 years. Lara is the highest Test scorer for the West Indies. He has scored 11953 runs in 131 matches. It also includes 48 half-centuries, … Read more
Cricket West Indies (CWI) Vice President and President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB), Azim Bassarath, has dismissed the legal action taken by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) against CWI as laughable, especially given their organization’s recent history with alleged questionable elections at the territorial board level. On April 20, the GCB announced … Read more
Legendary West Indian batsman Sir Vivian Richards is backing the regional side to go all the way and claim a third ICC Men’s T20 World Cup title at the upcoming tournament. The Darren Sammy-coached and Rovman Powell-captained West Indies will square off against some of the world’s best teams at the June 1-29 showpiece, which … Read more
West Indies (CWI) vice president Azim Bassarath is willing to “beg” former west indies spinner Sunil Narine to come out of international retirement and feature one last time at the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Bassarath joined a clarion call led by West Indies T20I captain Rovman Powell to possibly lure the Narine back … Read more
West Indies T20I captain Rovman Powell has been trying to persuade Sunil Narine to unretire from international cricket to play in the upcoming T20 World Cup. All-rounder Narine smashed his first T20 century on Tuesday and took two wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders as they went down to Rajasthan Royals. The 35-year-old announced his international … Read more
Jos Buttler finally broke his IPL jinx with a match-winning unbeaten century against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday, in Jaipur. Since winning the Orange Cap in 2022, Buttler has been in poor form in the Indian Premier League and it looked like it was stretching into this season too. But Buttler silenced his critics in … Read more
