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Retired champion cricketers Wayne Daniel and Franklyn Stephenson say they are at a loss at the omission of dazzling allrounder Carlos Brathwaite from the West Indies squad for the forthcoming T20 World Cup. Daniel, one of the leading fast bowlers in the West Indies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, thinks that Brathwaite should have been an automatic choice while Stephenson, who played first-class cricket in South Africa, Australia …

WITHIN the last two months, the St. Lucia Youth Business Trust (SLYBT) has successfully hosted two impactful training sessions as part...

Baggy green tail-enders: Every run counts A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size “It’s not how, it’s how many.” Bowlers really do win matches. But sometimes, they do so with the bat. Even a genuine bunny can play a vital role in extending a lead, reducing a deficit, turning a poor score into a respectable one, or forcing a draw. Each run scored by a tail-ender has the same worth as one scored by a recogn...

soso_killer TBF to Aus Windies dominated when most sides were weak albeit with one or two ATG in the side. Also teams kept on losing players via rebel tours or Kerry Packer series. They never even faced the best team of that era which was SA. The only strong candidate was Pakistan. Most sides improved vastly in the 90s like India, or Lanka in the late 90s and early 2000s. Then the reintroduction of SA which made the 90s the most competitive era. No one can tell me India or Lanka were strong in ...

Jamaica Scorpions players celebrate a wicket. (PHOTO: Cricket West Indies) Jamaica Scorpions pulled off a six-run win over the Leeward Islands Hurricanes under the Duckworth Lewis method today to survive an early elimination from the regional Super50 Cup. The victory represents the first for the Scorpions after three straight defeats. Despite the victory, the Scorpions remained bottom of the six-team table with four points and need to beat fourth-place Barbados Pride in the penultimate game of ...

93 Views   First published on thecricketer.com JEREMY BLACKMORE: Befitting a man who has spent his career breaking down barriers to inclusion, Butcher did not hesitate when Ebony Rainford-Brent asked him to become one of the first honorary patrons of the ACE Programme Forty years on from his landmark Test debut as the first black cricketer to play for England, Roland Butcher still sees challenges preventing players from breaking through in the game. After a year defined by the Black Lives Mat...

LONDON: Former England batsman John Edrich, who made more than 100 first-class centuries, has died at the age of 83,...