Adjusted from its usage in golf, the concept of “Pro-Am cricket”, best describes the final between the Jaguars of Guyana and the Red Force of Trinidad and Tobago in the Super50 series.  The latter a team of experienced, determined and organized professionals against a largely amateur group of players outmatched, out played, out-thought, out-captained: at...Read More

If you are like me hoping for West Indies cricket to revive from the 25-year old effects of the famine in this land of plenty, the performances in New Zealand must have made you feel only despair. However, on the morning after when we reflect on the nuggets of gold that shone through from the...Read More

The young man from the North Zone (Joshua Da Silva), making his debut behind and in front the stumps for the West Indies on the tour to New Zealand, acquitted himself in the best tradition of West Indian cricket.  His keeping, without being spectacular, was efficient. His half-century in the second innings of the second...Read More

To be called for a West Indian touring team to England at 21 years old is a most exhilarating feeling for Joshua Da Silva: “I had given myself three years to reach my dream of playing for the West Indies, when I was told by coach Roger Harper that I had been selected to be amongst...Read More

Jerome “Jerry” Julien Neilson, my friend and cricket-playing, cricket-watching and discussing pardner of 55 years, passed recently into eternity.  His life, outside of his family, was devoted to cricket, football, indeed all sports.  In return, this devotion to sport brought him great benefits in the form of ambition and capacity to achieve: he was intent...Read More

The statement by CWI President Ricky Skerrit, given in response to media reports of past mismanagement practices, and perhaps more, found by the international accounting firm PKF has brought to the surface the need for transparency in the administration of West Indies cricket; and at all levels of the game.     Moreover, the back and...Read More

It is significant that changes have been made at the level of the board of Cricket West Indies.  It is encouraging too that the new board has adopted a more thoughtful approach to the organisation and administration of West Indies cricket inclusive of the dumping of the degrading “Windies” designation.  Moreover it is of historic...Read More