By Tony Cozier | Sunday, July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
HERE was a distinct sense of de ja vu to the front page picture in Tuesday’s DAILY NATION, as there has been throughout the newest, …
By Tony Cozier | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
Australia, New Zealand and Zimbabwe have all gone through disagreements between board and players that have led to strikes and threatened strikes and that, once …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, June 28, 2009 | 0 Comments
For the second successive ODI, the West Indies found themselves chasing an overwhelming total – and losing – in the first of the four-match series …
By Tony Cozier | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
There was a certain and satisfying sense of déjà vu for the West Indies at the Oval on Monday night.
As Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
It has taken the simultaneous, belated arrival of summer and of Dwayne Bravo and the change to the game’s shortest, newest and most popular format …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
Cricket’s continuing evolution
According to Allen Stanford, Chris Gayle and a host of others, it is the game of the future but cricket’s newest and shortest …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Two years ago, the Jamaica Gleaner, one of the West Indies’ oldest and most respected newspapers, seriously advocated in an editorial following the West Indies’ …
By Tony Cozier | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 0 Comments
A distressing tour came to a predictable end, but as a huge relief, for the West Indies here yesterday.
From the first bell of a one-sided …
By Tony Cozier | Friday, May 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
-English weather denies Windies of a kick-starting revival
When the West Indies were last in England in 2007, they enjoyed the consolation of a 2-1 triumph …
By Tony Cozier | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
‘Modern West Indians, with flawed techniques cultivated in sub-standard regional cricket and with little or no experience of county, even league cricket found it impossible …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
IT’S becoming habitual and a real cause for worry just when the West Indies appeared to be on a gradual upward curve.
England’s 569 for six …
By Tony Cozier | Saturday, May 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
At least, and at last, some gumption, some of the fight that had gone out of the West Indies as early as the first afternoon …
By Tony Cozier | Friday, May 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
This was a throwback to the bad old days.
As West Indian wickets tumbled at Lord’s yesterday – four off six balls in one frenetic period, …
By Tony Cozier | Thursday, May 7, 2009 | 0 Comments
It is a recurring and irritating storyline – and one which the West Indies have done nothing to change.
The opening day of the first Test …
By Tony Cozier | Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | 0 Comments
The West Indies finally got their captain back yesterday.
Two weeks into the team’s tour of England and a couple of days behind his originally scheduled …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, May 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nine years ago, a health setback ended Stephen Camacho’s 18 years as secretary/chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).
Now, fit enough again, he …
By Tony Cozier | Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 0 Comments
The sight of captain Chris Gayle using the aid of a runner has become worryingly familiar for the West Indies and it recurred yesterday just …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
To the medically ignorant, or just plain cynical, the reason given by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for the omission of so vital a …
By Tony Cozier | Thursday, April 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
Players on the forthcoming tour of England April 21-May 26 have been offered what the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) described yesterday as “a significantly …
By Tony Cozier | Thursday, April 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
The grossly underpaid first-class players in regional cricket are to receive an increase of more than 300 per cent in match fees, the West Indies …