Cricket

Incumbent Dr. Julien Hunte will be returned un-opposed as president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), when the directors meet at the annual general meeting in Antigua tomorrow.

An irate president of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB), Azim Bassarath is calling for the heads of the senior West Indies players in light of the region’s poor showing at the cricket World Cup.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – New Zealand yesterday powered into the semi-finals for the second successive World Cup, shocking favourites South Africa by 49 runs and extending the Proteas’ dismal run in the knock out stage of the showpiece.

Lendl Simmons continued his fondness for Guyana’s bowling attack by slamming a century yesterday, his ninth first class ton, to put Trinidad and Tobago in control against Guyana in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-Day Competition at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

The games are over for West Indies cricket team at the World Cup and so too should be the ones the West Indies Cricket Board has been playing with respect to development of the regional team and the regional standard on the whole.

AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will bank  on their home advantage against an English side grappling with  inconsistency and injuries in today’s World Cup quarter-final  in Colombo.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Windward Islands made early inroads into the Leeward Islands batting line-up on a rain-hit first day of their final round match in the Regional Four Day Championship here yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Twenty-two wickets tumbled as fortunes lurched this way and that on a dramatic opening day of the final round Regional First Class Championship match between Combined Campuses and Colleges and Barbados here yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica produced a solid batting effort to make significant inroads into England Lions’ total, on the second day of their final round Regional First Class Championship yesterday.

Malteenoes Sports Club honoured son of the club Kwame Crosse on Wednesday on his selection for the West Indies Under-19 team that will be touring Dubai next month.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) will launch a Junior Elite Training Programme for 35 Under-15 cricketers drawn from across the ancient county.

by Tony Cozier at the ICC World Cup In DHAKA IN SPITE of their habitual meltdowns against England and India, the West Indies have somehow made it through to the World Cup quarter-finals.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – More will be at stake for  Pakistan than just a World Cup semi-final spot when they take on  West Indies in the first quarter-final tomorrow in Dhaka.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Another decisive spell from Carlos Brathwaite propelled Combined Campuses & Colleges to an eight-run victory over Guyana in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe will host a test  match against Pakistan in August, the Pakistan Cricket Board  (PCB) said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – After 42 matches, including  a tie, the wheat has been separated from the chaff and the  organisers are already hailing what they claim is “potentially  the greatest World Cup ever”.

Franklyn and Errol Diamond United Sports Club in Trinidad is very happy with the fact that their regular overseas player Devendra Bishoo has made it onto the West Indies Cricket team.

CHENNAI, India, CMC – Another inexplicable West Indies batting collapse betrayed a career-best spell from Ravi Rampaul and another fine innings from Devon Smith, condemning them to an 80-run defeat against India in the World Cup yesterday.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Career-best bowling from Veerasammy Permaul overshadowed defiant batting from Nkrumah Bonner, as Guyana continued to chase their first victory ever against the Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Current leaders Jamaica claimed first innings points over Trinidad & Tobago, despite Daren Ganga’s second hundred of the season in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.