By Tony Cozier Just as two prime ministers were meeting with the main characters in Port-of-Spain on Friday in an effort to find a settlement to yet another of the several recent challenges that have destabilised West Indies cricket, an e-mail popped up on the computer inbox of West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron.
AS has become routine through its several crises over the past decade, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has again been urged to seek Caricom’s help in resolving potentially its most destructive.
EVEN as the official forecast that the storm clouds hanging over West Indies cricket are beginning to lift, the rumblings in the background persist.
By Tony Cozier THE far-reaching implications of the West Indies’ desertion of their tour of India have attracted the global attention.
AS West Indies cricket teeters on the edge of extinction, with the president of the board, his directors and the players all seemingly unaware of how close they have brought it to the precipice, yet another independent committee has been given the challenging job of trying to save it from itself.
By Tony Cozier AS the directors of West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) met in emergency session in Barbados yesterday “to conduct a thorough assessment of all the ramifications” of Friday’s unprecedented abandonment of the Indian tour, they faced the prospect that the organisation could go out of business should the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) press a claim for damages along with its suspension of future bilateral tours.
By Tony Cozier THROUGH the clouds of confusion that enveloped the West Indies players’ final decision to abandon their tour of India after the fourth One Day International on Friday, a few relevant points are apparent.
By Tony Cozier WEST INDIES have again been jolted by the suspension of one of their major spinners, this time their most prominent.
West Indies cricket’s hopeful new optimism was clear in the pictures on the pages of Friday’s press.
WEST INDIES set out on their 500th Test at the Beausejours Stadium in St.
Says Tony Cozier IT was nothing more than to be expected against opponents whose record of 69 defeats in their 84 Tests includes 36 by an innings.
By Tony Cozier SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL had to wait into the late afternoon on the opening day of the first Test against Bangladesh in St.Vincent
Is it a problem that the World Cup is less than six months away and West Indies still have no head coach?
By Tony Cozier AT five feet, four inches, no taller than a jockey, even shorter in a characteristic crouching stance behind the stumps like a rider in the home stretch, Douglas Sang Hue was dwarfed by the towering fast bowlers of his time who pounded past him in their delivery stride.
By Tony Cozier AS he trawled through the reams of research that shaped his report to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) last March, director of cricket Richard Pybus would have been struck by failings in several areas that have led to the team’s drastic decline.
ONE of Clive Lloyd’s many problems as new head of West Indies’ selectors concerns who he is.
IT was inevitable that it would come to this. Seemingly taking note of Clive Lloyd’s comment that the West Indies appeared “drunk on T20s” during their two massive Test defeats in India last November and of the Indian board’s ban on its players from participating in any T20 franchise tournament outside of its Indian Premier League (IPL), the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) decided in March to follow India’s lead.
IAN CHAPPELL once described coaches as vehicles that ferry cricket teams from hotel to ground and back; by the former Australia captain’s definition, the best coach would be a Japanese by the name of Toyota.
By Tony Cozier WHEN Shane Warne, the legendary Australian leg-spinner, and Marlon Samuels, the stylish if not so legendary West Indies batsman, angrily fronted to up to each other on the pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 2013, Cricket Australia’s chief executive officer James Sutherland saw it as “something that only inspires a greater rivalry between two Melbourne teams and creates interest in the Big Bash League”.
For a host of reasons, it was just what makes Twenty20 cricket as universally popular as it is.
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