WI U-19 Cricketers – proof of the pudding
The West Indies Under 19 cricketers have just proven the regional critics of the game correct in their ongoing assessment of developments taking place in the region under the leadership of Cricket West Indies. It has often been said that ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. The fact is that what we […]
WI begins 2018 the way it ended 2017
The leadership of Cricket West Indies must be living somewhere else in the galaxy than on what we have come to know as planet earth. While the West Indies team strive ever so diligently to establish itself as one of the most debilitating teams in international cricket today, the leadership of the regional game appears […]
Interest in cricket waning badly
The West Indies cricket team is in New Zealand and very much under the hammer. This is not in any way surprising as over the past several years we have grown accustomed to the regional side’s inconsistency in the sport we once dominated for just over a decade. Gone are the days when we used […]
Oh what an awful lot we are – WI Cricket team
The entire Caribbean is still trying to recover from the devastating defeat of the West Indies team in the first test against Edgbaston, England. It is not an easy thing for Caribbean people to accept the kind of humiliation visited upon the regional team by the cricketing representatives of the former colonialists in the recent […]
West Indies Cricket at very low ebb
When the International Cricket Council (ICC) opted to introduce the ranking system some time ago many sports enthusiasts feared the worst for the status of the West Indies Cricket team. The current situation of the game in the region and the fact that our regional team failed to make it to the ICC Cricket World […]
Insularity blinds the very best of us
The government of Trinidad and Tobago has finally completed the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, south Trinidad. The facility is in fact much more than a traditional stadium. It is really a sports academy and more particularly, a cricket academy. The facility has already been the subject of a massive inquiry given the problems associated […]
The fight for control of West Indies Cricket
Antiquated! Obsolete! Anachronistic! The foregoing terms are used in the official report submitted by the group that has been labelled, the CARICOM cricket review panel. Led by Professor Emeritus, Professor Eudine Barriteau and including Sir Dennis Byron, Dwain Gill, Deryck Murray and Warren Smith, the CARICOM cricket review panel was mandated to evaluate the current […]
WI Cricket Fiasco continues unabated
It should not be long before we see individual cricket associations in the Caribbean seek to get the International Cricket Council (ICC) to recognise them as bona fide members in their own right. Yes, we can expect that soon, very soon, Cricket associations in the Caribbean may try to exit the West Indies Cricket Board […]
The conundrum of West Indies Cricket
Caribbean politicians continue to amaze and perhaps embarrass many of today’s sportspeople with this decidedly blinkered and perhaps more than a little jaundiced stance in respect of West Indies Cricket. This Columnist remains insistent that the approach of the politicians is woefully out of sync with contemporary trends and certainly reflective of an era when […]
West Indies’ uncertainties
The triangular series involving Australia, South Africa and the West Indies has once more brought into focus the several issues confronting the game in the region. The glorious uncertainties of the sport of cricket ought not to have involved the kind of issues that continue to plague the West Indies cricket team and the sport […]