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The Barbados Tridents have announced their retentions for the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League which gets under way on 28 August in St Kitts & Nevis.  The Tridents welcome back the world’s number one rated Test all-rounder and Tridents’ captain Jason Holder, along with fellow Barbadians Shai Hope, Kyle Mayers, Raymon Reifer, Justin Greaves, Nyeem…

The Guyana Amazon Warriors have announced their retentions for the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League which gets underway in St Kitts & Nevis on 28 August.  The Amazon Warriors have retained 11 of the players who guided them to the semi-finals of the 2020 event. Nicholas Pooran made the only century of last year’s tournament…

The Trinbago Knight Riders have announced the players they are retaining ahead of the 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which gets underway in St Kitts & Nevis on 28 August.  The Knight Riders have held on to 13 of the players who saw them complete a perfect season in 2020, winning all 12 of…

May 12, 2021, 4:46 p.m. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced that annual retainer contracts have been offered to all thirteen (13) members of the existing Senior Panel of Umpires for the new contract period April 1st 2021- March 31st 2022. The significant reduction in regional cricket in the last contracting period,…

In the first global study to look at elite athletes’ experiences in sport as children, more than half reported having suffered emotional abuse at least once, the World Players Association said in a new report released today at the 4th World Players’ Development Conference. The two-year project highlighting athletes’ testimonies of lasting legacies of abuse is a collaboration…

May 5, 2021, 3:14 p.m. On 24 April 2021, Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the Caribbean learned of the sad news of the passing of David Roper, Director of Industry Relations at Sandals Resorts International. A longstanding member of the Sandals Resorts family, David Roper played an integral role in building enduring relationships with travel…

May 6, 2021, 9:53 a.m. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has expanded the number of West Indies Women’s players offered retainer contracts for the 2021-2022 season to a record number of eighteen (18) players. This is an increase of three (3) retainer contracts compared to the 2020-21 season with contracts offered for the…

May 5, 2021, 7:40 a.m. St. John’s, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) confirmed the international retainer contracts for the West Indies Men’s Team for the 2021-2022 season. A total of 18 players have offered contracts for the upcoming 2021-22 season which runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. For the first time Nkrumah…

April 29, 2021, 11:45 a.m. ST JOHN’S, Antigua —The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel has named 30 players for an estimated month-long West Indies Women’s high-performance camp to be held in Antigua starting on May 2. This will be the second such month-long camp in 2021 assembled under the guidance of Head Coach Courtney Walsh…

The 2021 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) will take place in St Kitts & Nevis in its entirety, with all 33 games being played in the Federation. The tournament will get underway on 28 August with a similar format of games that worked so successfully in 2020 and delivered a record audience of over 500million. Last…

Cricket is the first discipline to announce qualifying teams for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and a country from the West Indies join England in qualifying for Birmingham 2022; Qualifier to determine the final participant Cricket is the first discipline to announce qualifying teams for the Birmingham 2022…

April 16, 2021, 9:37 a.m. West Indies T20 skipper took T20 hitting to new heights in 2020. He scored 59 sixes across his matches at a rate of one every 5.5 balls. His strike rate for the year was 199 and he averaged 53 Kieron Pollard feels elated and said it is a “fantastic achievement”…

April 14, 2021, 10:53 p.m. Jason Holder was today named among the Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year. The honour was announced on Wednesday the historic almanack unveiled its 2021 edition. Wisden is the game’s most prestigious and recognizable publication and this outstanding recognition is presented to players who excelled in the game. Holder has…

April 11, 2021, 6:02 p.m. ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Ricky Skerritt and Dr Kishore Shallow have been re-elected unopposed to the posts of President and Vice President respectively, of Cricket West Indies (CWI). They will serve a second two-year term. The re-election process was conducted as one of the key items on the agenda of…

April 6, 2021, 7:18 a.m. A first-of-its-kind partnership, FanCode becomes first Indian digital sports brand to enter media rights partnership with Cricket West Indies ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) and FanCode, India’s premier digital sports destination for all fans, have entered into a broadcast partnership, making FanCode the official fan destination in India for…

March 24, 2021, 11:43 a.m. ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced the scheduled match dates for England’s next tour of the Caribbean in 2022. It represents an expanded schedule to the original International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Future Tours Programme (FTP). The January 2022…

March 19, 2021, 4:35 p.m. Thorough bid process to identify venues as West Indies prepare to host global event ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) is undertaking a thorough regional bid process for Caribbean countries wanting to host the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup, which will be held in the West…

March 16, 2021, 8:10 a.m. West Indies fast bowling great, Michael Holding, has won the Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) Award for Best Pundit in 2020 at the SJA Awards and Sky Sports won the Sports Network of the Year category. The Sports Pundit award, which is decided by an SJA Members’ vote, was given to…

March 3, 2021, 8:20 a.m. Kieron Pollard wants to make a winning start to the CG Insurance T20 International Series against Sri Lanka. The West Indies skipper is pumped up along with his team as they get ready for the grand return of international cricket to the Caribbean. The home side had intense preparations at…

March 2, 2021, 9:37 p.m. ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI), on behalf of the International Cricket Council (ICC), today announced the match officials for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka who will all be from the West Indies. The two teams will play all three formats, starting with the CG Insurance T20…

March 2, 2021, 2:11 p.m. West Indies batsman Kyle Mayers has been nominated for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Player-of-the-Month for February. It is done to recognise the best performances from both across all forms of international cricket. Fans have been treated to some fantastic cricket the last few months and can vote on www.icc-cricket.com…

March 1, 2021, 1:43 p.m. ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced the signing of another major long-term broadcast rights agreement. This time it is with Sky New Zealand for the exclusive live coverage to all West Indies home matches played in the Caribbean. The agreement covering both television and digital rights…

Fifth place playoff of CG Insurance Super50 Cup Venue: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium Toss: Barbados Pride won the toss and batted Result: Leeward Islands Hurricanes beat Barbados Pride by 7 wickets Scoreboard: http://bit.ly/3ssaslu ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Devon Thomas was brimming with supreme confidence as he walked onto the outfield at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium…

Feb. 26, 2021, 3:06 p.m. The experienced Chris Gayle and Fidel Edwards earn recalls, while Akeal Hosein and Kevin Sinclair get first call-ups ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel today named the West Indies squads for the CG Insurance T20 International Series and CG Insurance One-Day International Series against Sri Lanka…