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
Let me begin my discourse by saying a resounding congratulation to Nicholas Pooran and his fellow West Indies players for their T20 Series win over the visiting Australians But, despite flashes of brilliance from some West Indians I have observed some troubling signs during the series. The Aussies came to these shores with a depleted...Read More
WI vs The Aussies T20 #3 match report: Crikey!!!! The WI have won the series!!!! We interrupt this scheduled article for a breaking news story – St. Lucia was hit by Hurricane Universe Boss last night as the Gayle force winds generated by the speed of the cricket ball off the willow completely blew away...Read More
WI vs The Aussies T20 #2 match report: Caribbean Rhythms 2, Waltzing Mathilda 0. Ah, what a funny old game this thing called cricket is. If you’d have told me 3 days ago that WI would win BOTH games played thus far, against an opponent over whom we have enjoyed precious little recent success, I...Read More
This year marks 17 years since Brian Charles Lara broke the world record for the highest Test score when he eclipsed Australia’s Matthew Hayden 380 (vs Zimbabwe, 2003) with 400 not out against England in Antigua 2004. It was the second time Lara had broken the record after eclipsing Garfield Sobers 36-year-old record of 365...Read More
