Archive for the ‘West Indian Cricket’ Category
SL Cricket in Humpty-Dumpty Condition
May 15, 2017Rex Clementine:, in The Island, 14 May 2017, with title “The price people pay for their arrogance”
The moment Hitler had France under his control, he had the whole of Western Europe at his beck and call. It gave him a massive adrenaline rush and he thought he could do just about anything. Instead of consolidating in Western Europe, Hitler invaded Russia. That proved to be a fatal mistake. The price people pay for their arrogance!
Sri Lanka go into Champions Trophy as the worst fielding team in the competition. They have been hard at work in Kandy to lift their fielding standards.Picture credit Sameera Pieiris/ The Papare.com.
In cricket, the West Indies thought that they would continue to produce world class players. Natural talent was enough to dominate world cricket they believed. Australia shook them up by using sports science to good effect. Other teams soon took a leaf out of the Aussies’ book by setting up Centres for Excellence and world class cricket academies. It took a while for the West Indies to realize that the times were fast changing and they needed to embrace technology. Despite the brilliance of Brian Lara, West Indies struggled. Since Lara they are no more world class. No Champions Trophy for them and they might even get kicked out from making it to the 2019 World Cup. The price people pay for their arrogance! Read the rest of this entry ?
Windies Guard of Honour for Younis Khan
May 11, 2017Indian Express News Item ...and A Note from Errol Fernando** of Kandy & Melbourne: “On a rain-shortened day Pakistan is 169 for 2. Holder won the toss and INSERTED on a dull drizzly day. The highlight of the day’s play was Holder and friends giving Younis a Guard of Honour as he arrived at the crease.He responded by giving Holder a gracious handshake and then marked out his guard. He has made a quiet 10 not out and will resume his innings at midnight Melbourne time. Captain Misbah, the next man in, will then receive HIS guard of honour and hopefully will join Younis at the crease. Pardon me for being a sentimental old duffer, G…, but this stuff GLADDENS my old heart!!
Younis Khan came out to bat in what could be his last innings for Pakistan on Day 1 of the third Test — PCB Official Twitter 
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Brian Lara to deliver Cowdrey Lecture in 2017
May 10, 2017West Indies cricket legend Brian Lara will deliver the 2017 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on Monday 4 September.
Lara is set to become the second West Indian to give the Lecture, after Clive Lloyd imparted the keynote address in 2006. Following the speech, a question and answer session with Lara and a selected panel of cricketers, hosted by Mark Nicholas, will discuss topics arising from the Lecture and other cricketing issues.
The MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture has become a notable feature in the cricketing calendar, provoking debate and discussion on the major issues facing the game today. This year’s Lecture will take place in the week of the Investec Test Match between England and West Indies at Lord’s. Previous speakers at the event include the Most Reverend Dr Desmond Tutu (2008), Kumar Sangakkara (2011) and Sir Ian Botham (2014). The inaugural address was delivered in 2001 by the late Richie Benaud.
Ranjan Mellawa’s Pursuit of Cricket Luv’ly Cricket
April 24, 2017Elmo Jayawardena, with the title Winds Behind The Willows – The Full Monty to Cricket
One has to know something about cricket to enjoy this magnificent book. Suited me ideally as I do not know much about cricket matters but like almost all Sri Lankans I too am connected umbilically to international cricket and especially when the home country is at the crease. Let me try and express my views on author Ranjan Mellawa writing a book. I can categorically state that if not the bull’s eye, he certainly has hit pretty close to it as a new author in his maiden venture on cricket journalism.
The man has managed to vagabond his way to be present at six World Cup finals. That alone gives him credentials to be somewhat an expert on the international scene from a spectator’s point of view. Ranjan has been an ardent cricket fan. He’s played too, starting with a plastic bat as a kid to rustic cricket in neighborhood tennis-ball matches. From there he graduated to club level domestic league. Hence, his story begins at grass-root level and then blossoms and spreads wild and wide taking him to the world of international cricket as a die-hard knowledgeable fan. Read the rest of this entry ?
Wow! A Legendary Barbadian XI that would rule the Cricketing World
February 18, 2017ESPNCRIClNFO STAFF: An All-time Barbados XI ……. http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/1069883.htm
Barbados is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence. Is this selection of Bajan players from over the years better than most Test teams?
Gordon Greenidge: First-class record
Innings: 889
Runs: 37,354
Average: 45.88
Cricket Luv’ly Cricket in November in Zimbabwe Tri Series
December 3, 2016Michael Roberts
Lord Superior, the epitome of Caribbean flair and calypso rythm- FOR CRICKET
In the cricketing world of Australia and the dominant nations the Triangular ODI series in Zimbabwe between Zimbabwe, West indies and Sri Lanka passed without notice. Such partialities in the world are par for the course. But the course of that series was hardly, well, par – hardly sedate. Apart from rain interference and no result matches, there were three tight matches – very tight in fact because the result was not known till the last over.
The West Indians sustained their recent reputation for unpredictability. In recent years they have revealed a capacity to win T20 matches from nowhere with remarkable batting in the death overs. But, in Zimbabwe, they managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the 6th Match after previously ending up tying a game which had seemed in their bag – again with Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe batsman Sikanda Raza Butt (C) celebrates a wicket during the sixth match in the Blue Mountain Achilleion tri-series played between West Indies and hosts Zimbabwe at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo, November 25, 2016. / AFP / Jekesai Njikizana (Photo credit should read JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Zimbabwe’s wicket keeper Peter Moor (R) shakes hands with West Indies batsman Shai Hope after Zimbabwe defeated West Indies during the third tri-nation One Day International (ODI) cricket match between Zimbabwe and West Indies at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on November 19, 2016. / AFP / Jekesai Njikizana (Photo credit should read JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images)
