AT THE HALFWAY MARK Oh, how the days–and cricket balls-have flown! It seems like this year’s tournament only began a mere heartbeat ago and yet here we are after day 9. Now that each team has played at least 5 games; we have effectively gotten past the midpoint of the competition. We also have a...Read More
BACK AGAIN!! Just like the “biggest party in sport”, yours truly is back. In the realm of sports writing/commentary, I consider myself a bona fide novice. As such, I paused my pen for the WI vs Pakistan Test matches. Having had my vocabulary and literary skills thoroughly tested by the WI’s 15-match T20 home season,...Read More
CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET Normal. Oh, how the world took that simple word and the idea it represents for granted. Now, the average citizen might give an arm and a leg to regain some semblance of their previous normalcy. For the Caribbean sports fan, cricket is essential for life to return to “business as usual”. Despite...Read More
READY, SET, GO! Our much-anticipated series finally got properly off and running with its first fully completed match. A change in venue brought with it a marked change in weather and optimism for a result. Both camps had cause for concern, though, as they were forced into personnel changes. For WI, Simmons was unavailable after...Read More
PAKISTAN, ZINDA BAAD I am West Indian by birth and have lived in this region all my life. The WI cricket team will always have my support against ANY other team in the world—except Pakistan. What would make a man born in Trinidad and descended from Indian immigrants gravitate to the Pakistanis, you ask? For...Read More
WI WALLOPED BY WALLABIES The final ODI between WI and Australia went—predictably, some might say—to the Aussies. Victory by 6 wickets with almost 20 overs to spare definitely ended the tour sweetly for the visitors. For my part, they initially lost the game with the team selection. Keeping a largely ineffective and inconsistent Cottrell and...Read More
THE BACKDROP Dear Covid-19; Please be advised that ONLY rain stops cricket. Despite the lengths and breadths you’ve gone to in your attempts to bring misery to the world, YOU are still not a force of nature. The likes of you and your sickening attitude will not bully us. Kindly look for another sporting event...Read More
Well, folks, it seems as though the ink on my T20 series recap has barely dried and here we are after the 1st ODI between the Men in Maroon and their visitors from Down Under. It also seems that the WI players have never looked at a Wildlife Documentary before, or else they would have...Read More
IT’S A WRAP! For the first time in what feels like forever the WI have run out 4-1 victors over the Men from Down Under. The fact that this was by no stretch of the imagination Australia’s strongest possible T20 team should not dampen the delight of the cricket-loving Caribbean public in the slightest –...Read More
Just when the long-suffering, cricket-loving citizens of the Caribbean dared to dream of inflicting a 5-0 series whitewash over perennial powerhouse Australia, they were jolted back to reality by a fighting performance from the visiting team that showed exactly why one should never rest on one’s laurels when playing against them. Having had their wallabies...Read More
