Cave HilL, Barbados: West Indies vice-captain Denesh Ramdin has backed his team to make a smooth transition to the 50-over format when they open their campaign in the ICC Champions Trophy starting next month.
Several leading members of the squad have been campaigning in the Indian Premier League over the last six weeks but Ramdin said Thursday he expected no fallout from this.
In fact, he contended that the IPL would be good preparation for the players heading into the Champions Trophy.
"Most of the guys are professional cricketers and they have the ability to make that transition - the Chris Gayles, the Dwayne Bravos, the Kieron Pollards. Those guys - they can sit down and bat and play long innings," Ramdin said prior to a training session at the 3Ws Oval....
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02:24 PM, May 24, 2013
Bridgetown: The West Indies will kick off preparations for next month's Champions Trophy in England when they embark on a five-day camp at the High Performance Centre (HPC) at the 3Ws Oval starting here on Monday. The sessions will be overseen by West Indies head coach Ottis Gibson with assistant coach Tony Radford and the HPC's Andre Coley, also involved in the squad's preparation. The players are expected to begin...
01:15 PM, May 20, 2013
St.John's, Antigua: England and West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday. The Twenty20 matches will be the last before the West Indies defend their...
06:06 PM, May 19, 2013
Derbyshire: West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has taken his place among batting greats by playing his 300th first-class match. The 38-year-old Guyanese batsman achieved the feat while playing in an English County game for Derbyshire against Sussex on Thursday. Only six men in the history of the game have reached such a landmark of appearances with a higher average than Chanderpaul's 56.19. The list is headed by Denis...
01:27 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Almost 30 years after his dubious lbw decision in the Feroz Shah Kotla Test against India, West Indies' legend Vivian Richards has disclosed that there was something fishy in the manner he was given out. It was said that after his dismissal during the drawn second Test between the two countries in 1983, Richards had smashed the dressing room after being given out lbw after a quick-fire 67...
05:32 PM, May 10, 2013
Hyderabad: After Chris Gayle invented the 'Gangnam' celebration mode during West Indies' triumphant campaign in ICC World T20 last September, this year's IPL has witnessed Dwayne Bravo show his dancing skills more often than not. The Caribbean allrounder has done moonwalks, impersonations of Spartan, and at times was even caught doing tamil dance with his team-mate Dirk Nannes. Keep all that aside, as Darren Sammy seems to have followed suite...
10:45 AM, May 05, 2013
Port of Spain: Kitts and Nevis government minister, Richard Skerrit, has been appointed a director of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Skerrit, the federation's tourism minister, was one of two new directors appointed to the WICB at its board meeting in Trinidad last weekend. Skerrit was nominated by CARICOM while the other Director is Don Wehby, Group chief executive officer of GraceKennedy, one of the Caribbean's largest corporate entities....
03:53 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: India will begin their campaign in the the last edition of the ICC Champions Trophy with their Group B match against South Africa at Cardiff on June 6. The biennial tournament is being wound up as the ICC is unable to slot it in the crowded cricketing calendar. India play their second group game against the West Indies at the Oval on June 11 before running into neighbours...
12:28 PM, May 01, 2013
Port of Spain: Former West Indies cricketer Bryan Davis says the side's progress in Test cricket could suffer if they do not get more matches under their belt. Davis was reacting to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announcement that Pakistan's upcoming tour of the Caribbean will not include Tests. The West Indies will be limited to playing just four Test matches in 2013, two of which were against Zimbabwe...
01:35 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Kingston: South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs, the first man in history to hit six sixes in a single over in international cricket, has become the latest player to sign up for this year's Caribbean Premier league. Gibbs achieved the feat in the Caribbean, in St Kitts during the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup, when he dispatched Netherlands leg-spinner Daan van Bunge over the ropes six times in a row. And...
03:11 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Kingston: West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle who scored the fastest century in professional cricket says he is dedicating his history-making feat to fans in the Caribbean. Gayle established a series of records on his way to an undefeated 175 for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors India in the Indian Premier League match on Tuesday. The Jamaican batsman scored the fastest 50 in IPL history, fastest 100 in T20...
03:06 PM, Apr 26, 2013
St. John's, Antigua: The Sri Lanka A team will tour the Caribbean in June to play a series of matches against the West Indies A in all formats, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced. The West Indies tour will involve two Tests (4-day matches), three 50-over encounters and two T20s, a WICB release said on Wednesday. Warner Park in St. Kitts will host the first Test while the second...
02:49 PM, Apr 25, 2013
There is no question about it. Twenty20 cricket is a game of confidence. When we look at the way Chris Gayle bats in T20, this ...
11:38 AM, Apr 11, 2013
St. John's: The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has brushed aside media reports suggesting that Pakistan's tour of the Caribbean this year is in jeopardy. A WICB statement released on Monday says the board remains optimistic that the tour will take place in July as planned and says negotiations are still being held to finalise plans. A report said the tour is unlikely to take place after the WICB and...
03:28 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Port of Spain: Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara says his decision in the past to select Darren Sammy as a member of the West Indies team was based more on the player's passion for the game and his dependability than cricketing ability. Lara has revealed that Sammy was one of the last two players he decided to select in a 14-man squad after ignoring suggestions to pick two other...
03:28 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has accused the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) of reneging on an agreement to facilitate a tour of the Caribbean this year. Pakistan were originally scheduled to play two Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s in the Caribbean in June and July. However, reports suggest that the tour is unlikely to go ahead after both boards failed to find a new window. "It's a...
03:27 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Bridgetown (Barbados): New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor has become the latest international cricketer to link up with the inaugural Caribbean Premier League (CPL) set to begin in July. Taylor, one of the hottest commodities in Twenty20 cricket, has been confirmed as the tournament's third international franchise player, organisers announced on Thursday, reports CMC. The former New Zealand captain has played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception in...
05:56 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Of the 11 West Indians that beat Sri Lanka on the night of October 7, 2012 in Colombo to clinch the ICC World Twenty20, nine have IPL contracts for the upcoming sixth season of the lucrative league. Considering that Twenty20 is the one format where West Indies have achieved success over the past few years, the success of the men from the Caribbean at last year's extravaganza in Sri Lanka...
01:12 PM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: The winners of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament, commencing on June 6, will pocket prize money of USD 2 million while the runners-up will be richer by USD 1 million. The total prize money of the 50-over event is worth USD 4 million and even the losing semi-finalists will get USD 400,000 each. The ICC will be paying USD 100,000 to the two third-placed teams in each group....
05:29 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Dubai: West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford's success in the recent two-Test series against Zimbabwe has catapulted him up the International Cricket Council Test bowlers' rankings. In the latest rankings released Wednesday, the 30-year-old Shillingford jumped a whopping 18 spots to be 23rd, to be the biggest mover. The right-armer bowled outstandingly to capture 19 wickets against Zimbabwe, in the process breaking Courtney Walsh's record for the most wickets in a...
02:11 PM, Mar 28, 2013
