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Charlotte Edwards, captain of England Women, is to become the first woman to sit on the MCC World Cricket committee
West Indies captain Darren Sammy is the first guest on Alison’s Tea Break and by the end of a packed summer, the ESPN cricinfo teapot should have witnessed interviews with some of the biggest names in world cricket.
Ken Rutherford averaged 27.08 in Test cricket. That figure was not truly representative of a considerable talent, yet it was a lot higher than it might have been. Rutherford had to build a Test career after one of the most traumatic and inhumane introductions to Test cricket imaginable. At the age of 19, he was picked by New Zealand to open the batting during their tour of the Caribbean in 1984-85. Malcolm Marshall destroyed him. Rutherford got a pair …
The West Indies Cricket Board has asked Chris Gayle to specify a date on which he can meet with it and regional officials, to mop up ‘residual matters’ related to their now seemingly concluded spat
It is difficult to know who learned what at Northampton when England Lions rolled the West Indies for 147. The conditions were so conducive to seam bowling that not taking wickets might have proved harder than taking them.
Jack Brooks did not emerge from village cricket until he was 20. Since then his progress has accelerated to the extent that he is among the next pack of fast bowlers vying for England recognition
West Indies Cricket Board CEO Ernest Hilaire says selectors should focus on selecting the 'best XI' for the West Indies team, one that was a strong collective unit rather than just comprising 11 star players. “For a decade or so the selectors were guided by a process which had them arriving at the eleven best players to take the field,” Hilaire said, during the Barbados Cricket Association Awards ceremony. “With the eleven best players on the park our results …
Ernest Hilaire, the West Indies Cricket Board CEO, has said selectors should focus on selecting the ‘best XI’ for the West Indies team, one that was a strong collective unit rather than just comprising 11 star players
by CLAIRMONT CHUNG In my most recent piece on this hateful game,, surrounding cricket, I addressed a speech made by the Principal of the University of the West Indies , Cave Hill, and West Indies Cricket Board, Director, Sir Hilary Beckles. In that speech he compared Former Captain Chris Gayle to convicted Jamaican gangster Chris ‘Dudus’ Coke. He made a number of unsupported conclusions and maligned a number of current players. I hoped my response then would have put …
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has announced three 15-man squads for the tour of West Indies, starting in June. It noted that it placed heavy emphasis on player workload management in light of the rigorous international schedule. The tour, which runs from June 30 to Aug 6, includes two Tests, five One-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches, both of which will be played in Florida, United States . National selection manager Kim Littlejohn Thursday said that in picking the squads, …
