The 2025 season of the PowerGen SSCL Premiership Division got going on Tuesday, 21 January, at cricket grounds across the country. St. Mary’s College made a flying start to last season’s campaign, notching 3 wins in a row. “The Saints” were looking to repeat this in 2025 and hosting newly-promoted Toco Secondary in Round 1...Read More
WELCOME BACK, SSCL. Three years is a long time by any measuring standard. Since 2020’s Covid-enforced abandonment of the SSCL season, our Nation’s talented youngsters have been starved of the game they love. Now, with all necessary permissions granted and guidelines for sanitation measures in place, schools’ cricket is back with a bang. The 2023...Read More
HERE WE GO It has been three long years since the dust last settled upon the cricket uniforms of the Nation’s secondary school students. Covid-19 and its after-effects put paid to many efforts to have sporting activities in that time. Now, however, excitement is rife as the 2023 season of the Secondary Schools’ Cricket League...Read More
A WELCOME RETURN CWI’s Rising Stars Women’s U19 tournament marked a welcome return to the playing fields inTrinidad and Tobago. All six Regional teams, together with a team from the USA, assembled inour twin-island Republic for a T20 showdown. Part of the CWI’s “Summer of Cricket”, thetournament took place at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy...Read More
PRELUDE – HIGH-FLYING HOSTS With a 2-0 Test series victory in the bag, the hosts could be excused for feeling confident and full of hype. Their efforts throughout the Test matches included good performances from numerous members of the squad. Now, however, as the series swapped red balls for white, the personnel changes would be...Read More
RINGING THE CHANGES With the hosts already holding a 2-0 series lead, both camps used the final match to swap out personnel. For Pakistan, Hasan Ali returned in place of Rauf and Shahnawaz Dahani got his ODI debut replacing Afridi. The WI traded in Seales for Phillip while Carty and Paul got their first action...Read More
CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET. I love Test cricket. As in absolutely LOVE it. Don’t get me wrong; I have come to accept that the shorter formats have their place and benefits. In my humble opinion, those benefits are not primarily geared towards the actual game itself, but that’s another conversation entirely. For now, I am focused...Read More
ROUND 2 – FIGHT! After a run-fest of a first match, each team opted to tinker with their bowling ammunition. For the hosts, it was a straightforward swap, replacing the expensive Hasan Ali with Mohammed Wasim jr. The WI, however, left fans bemused with their selection of Anderson Phillip over Jayden Seales. Given that his...Read More
PRELUDE The WI came into this match riding a wave of confidence after their Dutch delight against the Netherlands. A 3-0 series sweep gave the Men in Maroon the perfect start to new skipper Pooran’s reign. In Pakistan, however, this new-look Caribbean outfit faced a decidedly more experienced and accomplished opponent. Just a few short...Read More
IT’S A WRAP What. A. Finish! The 2021 Hero CPL literally went down to the wire. 1 run to win off the last ball of the final to secure a maiden title for either team. For the second year running, ongoing anti-Covid efforts limited the CPL to a single host Caribbean territory. Like their Trinidadian...Read More
