By Tony Cozier | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
ANY number of factors and incidents over the five days of a Test match influence its direction and eventual outcome but there is often one …
By Tony Cozier | Saturday, December 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
A pair of left-handers, alike in body and soul but separated by 112 Tests of experience, came to the rescue of another faltering West Indies …
By Tony Cozier | Friday, December 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
There is a familiar figure among the travelling entourage of support staff with the West Indies team in New Zealand.
Clyde Butts, almost as trim at …
By Tony Cozier | Thursday, December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments
THE battle for Test cricket’s wooden spoon has moved from the Arctic gloom of Dunedin to the warmth and Caribbean sunshine of Napier – and …
By Tony Cozier | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
They both earned wickets through it they would not otherwise have gotten.
But captains Chris Gayle and Daniel Vettori are sceptical about the new referral system …
By Tony Cozier | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
In DUNEDIN
Jerome Taylor’s exceptional hundred in the first Test here Sunday has set standards for all aspiring West Indies’ bowlers to follow.
Jerome Taylor
Head coach …
By Tony Cozier | Monday, December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments
- Jerome Taylor was made aware of his full capabilities with the bat by West Indies coach John Dyson. The upshot was an innings of …
By Tony Cozier | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
It is not only the New Zealand cricket team that will confront the West Indies in the first Test, starting here tomorrow (tonight East Caribbean …
By Tony Cozier | Saturday, December 6, 2008 | 14 Comments
Ramnaresh Sarwan’s perplexing position in the leadership of the West Indies team took another, probably, final twist yesterday.
Pre-ordained as a future captain when he was …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, November 30, 2008 | 0 Comments
THERE would have been a special poignancy to the shocking images from Mumbai during the week for every cricketer – and, to be personal, every …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 4 Comments
Quantity over quality
John Dyson was on to a familiar refrain during the week.
After almost a year as head coach of the West Indies team, the …
By Tony Cozier | Monday, November 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
There are any number of instances of the muddled thinking that presently pervades West Indies cricket.
The latest – not counting the bloated, sub-standard, expensive, unsponsored …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
A picture, as the maxim goes, is worth a thousand words.
One image on the tv screen on Friday summed up the exasperation over events in …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 0 Comments
Preparation was the key
IT was a cushy way to pocket a million bucks – or two, or six, or 200, depending on the location of …
By Tony Cozier | Friday, November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
Reverend Wes Hall said yesterday he was “astonished and saddened” by the level of personal invective directed at him by the West Indies Cricket Board …
By Tony Cozier | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
The already strained relations between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Stanford 20/20 organisation neared breaking point last night after a verbal broadside …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 4 Comments
The instant Sir Allen Stanford touched down on the hallowed turf at Lord’s in June in that black helicopter with his name emblazoned on the …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments
As the powerful storm surge of 20/20 cricket continues to threaten all in its path, events in Mohali last week came as a timely intervention …
By Tony Cozier | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
- WICB sets new standards for team selection
Selection to the West Indies team will be based in future primarily on stringent statistical standards presently well …
By Tony Cozier | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 0 Comments
The London International Court of Arbitration (LICA) has made its ruling.
Sir Allen Stanford and Denis O’Brien, the Digicel boss, have settled on an agreement that …