Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Guyana Jaguars continue to lead in the WICB four-day tournament after defeating Barbados Pride by four wickets in their seventh round match last Monday at Kensington Oval, Barbados. Guyana, chasing a victory target of 333, reached 335 for six wickets with half-centuries from Narsingh Deonarine, 90, Shiv Chanderpaul, 64 and opener […]
Shane Shillingford, the former West Indies off-spinner, captured a six-wicket haul and Andre Fletcher slammed a brilliant century 120 as Windward Islands Volcanoes crushed Jamaica Franchise by an innings and 22 runs inside three days on Sunday at Arnos Vale Stadium, St. Vincent, in the WICB Professional League four-day competition. Shillingford, the 31-year-old Dominican, grabbed […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Scarborough Cricket Association held its annual general meeting recently at Agincourt Community Centre and elected the new executive. Executives for the 2015 cricket season are: Deo Samaroo, president; Bisham Singh, vice-president; Eon Gunraj, secretary; Mohammad Ahmed, assistant secretary / webmaster; Vish Jadunauth, treasurer; Shiv Persaud, registrar / statistician and Richard Ramlall, […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Ireland caused the first upset of the 2015 Cricket World Cup when they defeated West Indies by four wickets last Monday at Saxton Oval, Nelson, New Zealand. West Indies sent in to bat scored 304 for seven wickets with Lendi Simmons topscoring with 102 and Darren Sammy made 89 in a 154-run, six-wicket […]
Richard Arkwright Austin, the former Jamaican and West Indies allrounder, has died at the age of 60. Nicknamed ‘Danny Germs’, Austin was born in Kingston Jamaica, and represented the West Indies in two tests and one ODI against Australia in 1978 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at Bridgetown, Barbados and St. John’s , Antigua. Regarded […]
Guyana Jaguars comfortably defeated the Jamaica Franchise by 105 runs last Monday in their fifth-round match of the WICB four-day Professional Cricket League to stay at the top of the standings. Guyana Jaguars in their first innings scored 314 all out with Man of the Match Veerasammy Permaul topscoring with an undefeated 86 off 107 […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon West Indies lost their first 50 over ICC World Cup warm-up match against England by nine wickets last Monday at Sydney Cricket Ground, Australia. The West Indies took first strike and were bundled out for 122 in just 29.3 overs with Lendi Simmons topscoring with 46. Dwayne Smith made 21, Darren […]
Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) that forms part of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has expressed disappointment that national left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul was overlooked as a replacement for Sunil Narine for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The Berbice board believes that the 25-year-old spinner should have been the automatic replacement for Narine, instead of Jamaican left-arm […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Five senior players of the Trinidad & Tobago Red Force have withdrawn from the squad for the WICB Professional Cricket League (PCL) Four- Day competition which resumes tomorrow (Feb. 6). The five players are Dwayne Bravo, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul and Kevon Cooper. According to the chairman of the Trinidad […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon The West Indies Cricket Board last Tuesday announced that mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine has withdrawn from the West Indies squad for the World Cup 2015. Narine was instrumental in Trinidad & Tobago Red Force winning the Nagico Super50 tournament last Sunday against Guyana with an unbroken eight-over spell taking six wickets for […]
