Cricket with Dalchand. The Windward Islands defeated defending champions Barbados by nine wickets in the opening round of the Regional Four-Day Cricket Tournament which ended last Sunday, at the Beausejour Cricket Ground in St Lucia. Final scores- Barbados: 213 all out. Windward Islands in reply scored 252 for 9 wickets declared. Barbados in their second […]
Cricket with Dalchand. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-Day Tournament kicks off this Friday, February 28th. In the opening round, Windward Islands will play defending champions Barbados at the Beausejour Cricket Stadium in St Lucia. Jamaica will host Guyana at Sabina Park, Jamaica and on March 01-04, the Leeward Islands will play the […]
Cricket with Dalchand. England opened their tour of the Caribbean with a 50-over warm-up match against the University of the West Indies Chancellor”s XI last Tuesday, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. The visitors after compiling 290 for 8 wickets restricted the Vice Chancellor”s XI to 261 for 7 wickets in their 50 […]
Despite the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled team made into the 30th and last place after two heats of the men’s two-competition at Sanki Cliding Center, Sochi, Russia, their new Olympic song is creating quite a stir. It starts “Run the track, run the track, run the track it’s bobsled time.” Marvin Dixon and Winston Watts brought […]
Cricket with Dalchand. Chris Gayle and team mate Marlon Samuels have been included in the West Indies squad for the limited-overs matches against Ireland which started on February 19th in Kingston, Jamaica. Gayle missed t he New Zealand tour due to a hamstring injury he suffered on tour to India. Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy […]
Cricket with Dalchand. Barbados defeated hosts Trinidad & Tobago by 17 runs in the final of the West Indies Cricket Board Nagico Super50 tournament last Saturday, at the Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad, and captured the Clive Lloyd trophy. Barbados after winning the toss elected to bat first, got off to a good start with openers […]
Ashish Bagai, the Canadian senior cricket captain, has announced his retirement. Bagai, the talented wicketkeeper/batsman who turns 32 on January 26th, 2014 made his debut for the national team in 1999 at the tender age of 17. He also played for the U15 and U19 teams. He has played in 62 ODIs scoring 1964 runs […]
Cricket Canada last Tuesday, announced that Gus Logie the national team cricket coach has been let go with immediate effect. Logie, 53 , the former West Indies batsman who played 52 Tests and 158 ODIs between 1981 and 1993 was appointed national coach in the mid 2012 succeeding Michael Dighton, but during his tenure the […]
Canada won its first match of the World Twenty20 Qualifier when they defeated Uganda by 44 runs last Tuesday, at the Skeikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Canada elected to bat first scored 137 for 7 wickets in their 20 overs with Jimmy Hansra topscoring with an undefeated 58 and skipper Ashish Bagai made 40, the only […]
Cricket Canada last week announced a 15-man squad for next month”s ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The team will be led by the experienced middle-order batsman/wicketkeeper Ashish Bagai. The 16 teams participating in the tournament have been divided into two groups with last year”s winner, Ireland, in Group A alongside Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Namibia, […]
