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by Bajan Reporter / May 8th, 2021 Sir Frank Worrell has fulfilled the necessary requirements for hero status, and throughout his life represented Barbados “ when this fair land was young and sowed the seed from which our pride is sprung. A pride that makes no wanton boast of what it has withstood, that binds our hearts from coast to coast, the pride of nationhood.” He also made it known that “these fields and hills beyond recall are now our very own” when he became the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team for an entire series as was being requested by the majority of W...

Wisden 2021 What's in Wisden 2020? Not since the Second World War has cricket faced a crisis like it. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic left no corner of the game untouched, and Wisden reports on its juddering impact – from Test arena to school field. In in 2021 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Duncan Hamilton reflects on an unprecedented and unsettling English summer, while Test spinner Jack Leach reveals what life was really like inside the biosecure bubble. Marcus Berkmann finds surprising solace on the village green. It was also a year in which cricket glimpsed itself in the mir...

Best: Whether with Pollard or Holder, WI spinning top in mud without CWI reform  For 32 years since Viv Richards’ West Indies beat Australia by nine wickets at the Gabba, no other country successfully breached that fortress.  Of the 31 matches played there between that defeat and this year, the home side had drawn seven and won 24. But without its appointed captain and more than half of its regulars, including five of its front-line bowlers, a second-string Indian team took Tim Paine’s Aussies to the cleaners. Photo: India cricketers celebrate a famous Test series win over Australia in ...

Black lives regained Some of the names in a new book that celebrates the lives of pre-Windrush immigrants take even Angela Cobbinah by surprise Francis Barber HE helped advance Darwin’s theories of evolution through his skills in taxidermy and knowledge of the South American tropics, but few will have heard of freed slave John Edmondstone. The extraordinary story of how he began working with the young Darwin after moving into the same Edinburgh street as him in 1823 is told in Before Windrush: West Indians in Britain, the latest book to emerge from husband-and-wife team Martin and Asher Ho...