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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 passed 20 as the Caribbean side’s batting struggles continued from the three-match series against ...

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 weakened side, while King played the last of his four ODIs two years ago.Walsh, meanwhile, has not played ...

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 three IPL auctions but is yet to be awarded a contract.Speaking in a press conference today, Shepherd sa...

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) four-team Legends Cup after only one round in late November because of covid-19 concerns, and the just ...

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 in the intervening period, the headlines appear ready to be made on the field and bowling coach Rod...