Christopher Henry Gayle has cited personal reasons for his exit from this year’s Caribbean Premier League. The tournament is expected to be played in Trinidad and Tobago from August 18 to September 10.  An ESPNcricinfo report stated that Gayle informed the St. Lucia Zouks franchise on Monday 22 June, just days away from the players’...Read More

Fatima College went into their round 3 match of the PowerGen SSCL Premiership Division on the back of 2 straight defeats. They would now host Presentation College San Fernando, who were a very experienced unit and full of confidence despite being a promoted team since they had played unbeaten throughout the entire Championship Division in...Read More

Purists of the game say the ultimate format of cricket will always be test cricket. It’s a battle of skill, nerve and discipline. West Indies teams of the past dominated the test cricketing world producing many legends renowned not only within the Caribbean but around the world. Any realistic Windies fan would have to admit...Read More

For the first time since the club’s inception in 2013, The UWI Women’s Cricket Club (UWI WCC) will compete in the Premiership Division when the cricket season commences in 2021. The university team (which operates under the purview of The Academy of Sport at The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine) achieved the elusive...Read More

Holy Name Convent went into the 2020 season of the SSCL as the defending champions of both the Girls’ Open and Junior divisions in the North Zone. Their determined and talented young ladies also finished 2019 as the runners-up in the PowerGen Girls’ Intercol competition and placed 4th in the FLOW U-16 Girls’ competition. Expectations...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

On the previous edition of “How’s that” we looked at some of the duties of an umpire before the match begins. In this edition, we will be looking  at the “Duties of an umpire during play.” These duties will be broken up into some of the Bowler’s end umpire duties and the Striker’s end umpire...Read More

There are precious few College rivalries as storied as that of St. Mary’s and Fatima. Both schools are rooted in tradition and history, with legendary past pupils from either side engaging in epic battles over multiple sporting disciplines through the years. As their teams prepared to face off on the opening day of the 2020...Read More

The North Zonal Council held its first virtual club meeting on Thursday 4 June in an attempt to appraise clubs of the way forward in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting was a huge success as 8 of the 12 clubs joined the virtual meeting. The meeting was hosted by Chairman Winston...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