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The West Indies team’s 2-0 victory in its recently concluded Test Series at home against Bangladesh has provided some very encouraging signs for its fans and followers. The West Indies comfortably won both matches of the series.The West Indies victory margin for the Antigua-hosted First Test was seven wickets. For the second, played at St Lucia’s Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, it was by an even wider margin of ten wickets. Both matches were concluded on the fourth of the respectively scheduled five days.Three of the West Indies’ top-order batsmen, Kyle Mayers, Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell, were among the top five in the standings for the highest run-scorers after the two Tests. Undoubtedly a most welcomed and very pleasing development for the team’s coaching staff, as well as the West Indies Selection Panel.Of the three, Kyle Mayers’ return to form to head the standings, with both the most runs (153) and best average (76.50), would have been the most welcomed. Mayers’ ....
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The West Indies have commenced their three-match ODI Tour of Holland. The Caribbean white-ball cricketers are engaging their Dutch hosts in three One day Internationals that started Tuesday morning, and continue June 2 and 4. These are matches that will have direct points bearing on both teams’ qualification chances for next year’s India-hosted ICC 2023 World Cup. As such the attention of most of the West Indies team’s fans and followers will rightfully be on the unfolding matches in Holland, all three of which are being played at Amsterdam’s VRA Cricket Ground.The West Indies selectors will naturally also be keenly observing the performances of their chosen players during the Holland Series, particularly in regard to the eventual composition of the fifteen-member final squad for next year’s ICC ODI World Cup. While doing so they should, however, be just as keenly observing the June 1-4 fifth and Final Round of the 2022 West Indies Regional 4 Day Championships. As a means of ....
The 2022 edition of the Caribbean Regional Four Day Championships was recently resumed with third-round matches played from May 18-21. The matches provided some very interesting takeaways, particularly in regards to competition for available spots on the West Indies Test team. The West Indies are scheduled to play two Tests at home against Bangladesh this coming June and an identical number in Australia this November-December.There are still two rounds of matches remaining before the June 15 commencement of the first Test against Bangladesh, and obviously plenty of cricket is yet to be played. From the performances that have been produced thus far it has, however, already become most obvious that the West Indies Selection Panel will be given much to think about in terms of its choices for the eventual Test squad for the Bangladesh two-match Series.The Championships’ third-round performances can now be viewed as having categorized players into three distinct groups. The first of which ....
The West Indies Four-Day Regional Championship resumes on May 18 and will continue uninterrupted through to the conclusion of its June 1-4, fifth and final round. The tournament’s third and fourth rounds will be played from May 18-21 and 25 – 28 respectively.The final rounds will allow three sets of matches to be played by each of the six participating regional franchise teams: Barbados Pride, Guyana Harpy Eagles, Jamaica Scorpions. Leeward Islands Hurricanes, Trinidad & Tobago Red Pride and the Windward Islands Volcanoes. Concluding as it will be less than two weeks before the June 16 – 19 commencement of the West Indies – Bangladesh Test Series, the resumed Regional Championship will also offer ample opportunities for those wishing to advance their claims for red-ball team selection to do so.The West Indies-Bangladesh 2022 Test Series will consist of two matches. The first Test is scheduled to be played at Antigua’s Sir Vivian Richards National Stadium from June 15-19. ....