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The organising committee for the National Primary Schools Athletics Championship (NAPSAC) outlined their plans for the 2022 track season during the official launch and press conference held this morning at the Garfield Sobers Sorts Complex.Tied in with its 20th anniversary, NAPSAC Championship Director Julian Pierre during his speech announced that the first event on the list is a Zonal Get Moving Festival scheduled to be held virtually from March 14th to 18th in the Under-7 to Under -13 age gro...

AHMEDABAD, India – Head coach Phil Simmons conceded Friday that West Indies’ frail batting required “urgent attention” after the Caribbean side were whitewashed by India following a 96-run defeat in the final One-Day International.West Indies failed to reach 200 in any of the three matches at the Narendra Modi Stadium, dismissed for 176, 193 and 169, with all-rounder Jason Holder the only player to notch a half-century.“It (batting) does need urgent attention because it has just lost u...

AHMEDABAD, India – Jason Holder has urged West Indies’ batsmen especially to “dig deeper” and place a higher value on their wickets, after another feeble performance sent them to a six-wicket defeat in the opening One-Day International against India on Sunday.The 30-year-old former Test captain was the only one to shine with 57 as West Indies, sent in at the Narendra Modi Stadium, slumped to 176 all out in the 44th over.Fabian Allen chipped in with 29 at number nine but no other batsman ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Seasoned fast bowler Shakera Selman says “quality” preparation here over the last week has left West Indies Women in “a good space”, ahead of their four-match One-Day International series against South Africa Women starting on Friday.The Caribbean side are using the tour as their final build-up to the ICC 50-over World Cup in New Zealand in March, and Selman believes the training along with Tuesday’s warm-up victory against a South Africa Women XI, has pr...

Veteran Test seamer Kemar Roach has been recalled for his first One-Day International in 2-½ years, in a 15-man squad announced Wednesday for the three-match one-day series against India next month.The 33-year-old joins the Jamaican batting pair of Nkrumah Bonner and Brandon King, along with leg-spinner Hayden Walsh, in being recalled for the three matches in Ahmedabad from February 6-11.Bonner has played only three ODIs, all coming away to Bangladesh last year when West Indies fielded a weaken...

The Indian Premier League is the most lucrative T20 franchise league in the world, offering millions of dollars to the world’s best ball bashers and miserly bowlers. Many cricketers across the globe dream about playing in it one day.West Indies all-rounder Romario Shepherd is no different.The Guyanese fast bowler and right-handed batsman, who dazzled with the bat with an unbeaten 44 in the second T20 international between the West Indies and England yesterday, has put his name in the last thre...

Shane Dowrich, the most capped West Indies Test wicketkeeper/batter in the last seven years, is set to return to first-class cricket for the first time in 14 months as star-studded Barbados Pride prepare for the rescheduled February 9 start of the six-team regional Championship, which they are proudly defending.That’s the word from chairman of the Barbados selectors Henderson Broomes, who has explained reasons for Dowrich’s absence from both the aborted Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) fou...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies will chase a series win when they face Ireland in the rescheduled second One-Day International on Thursday, even as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hover ominously over the three-match series.The Caribbean side pulled off a 24-run win in Saturday’s opener at Sabina Park but three COVID cases in the Ireland camp 24 hours later, forced Cricket West Indies to postpone the second ODI which had been carded for Tuesday.With no further positive tests...

Former West Indies Women’s head coach, Vasbert Drakes, has been appointed head coach of Barbados Pride for the upcoming Regional Four-Day Championship in February.The 52-year-old former Test all-rounder replaces Emerson Trotman who spearheaded Pride’s capture of the 2019-20 first class title – the last championship to be staged since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.Dexter Toppin, a former Barbados seamer, led Pride during last year’s Super50 when the perennial champions lost fo...

Have we learned the lessons of 2020, and are we using those experiences to help guide us as we near the end of 2021?The question is about how we as a country manage our desire to enjoy the traditional year-end celebrations and to do so in a way that is safe and allows us to be alive and healthy in 2022.There has been subdued celebration of the fact that the island’s positivity rate for COVID-19 infections was in the four-percentile range.We at Barbados TODAY, like every citizen and entity in t...