Category: WIPA Features

We’re ready for Test cricket💃🏽🕺🏽 Just before, we have a feature lined up for you on another potential debutant of the #BANvWI series. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Kavem Hodge is affectionately known as Hodgey/Battistuta. The 27-year-old hails from Antrizle, Dominica. Hodge started playing cricket on the beach at the age of 5 with older guys in his village and says…

January 20, 2021 The #BANvWI tour is special for so many potential ODI debutants Let’s take a look at Andre McCarthy @mccarthy_andre [who is on debut today. Andre McIntosh McCarthy is a 33-year-old Jamaican.Andre started playing on the streets of his community, Waltham and then at the Maxfield Park summer camp. What inspired you to…

January 18, 2021 Nkrumah Bonner, the 31-year-old Jamaican is yet another potential ODI debutant on West Indies’ tour of Bangladesh. Nkrumah started playing cricket in Bog Walk, St Catherine, where he worked closely with Nkrumah Morgan. Bonner says he kept going over the years because he couldn’t let all the hard work he put in…

January 17, 2021 Our next #BANvWI feature is 24-year-old Barbadian cricketer, Keon Harding. Keon started playing cricket competitively at 7 years old at Carlton Cricket Club. His love for the game and wanting to be one of the best in the world inspired him to keep going over the years. Keon’s main reaction to hearing the news…

January 16, 2021 Today we share a bit about Jahmar Neville Hamilton, the 30-year-old Anguillan wicket-keeper batsman. Jahmar started playing hardball cricket at the age of 12. His love for the game and his family kept him motivated over the years and now he’s called on to deliver for the West Indies in the #BANvWI ODI series.…

January 15, 2021 It’s time for our Q&A with another potential debutant on the #BANvWI tour, this time, Kjorn Yohance Ottley😌  Age: 31Country: Trinidad & Tobago Called to: ODI Squad When and where did you start playing cricket?“I started at age 6 with my dad at home in the yard.” What inspired you to keep going over the…

January 14, 2021 Akeal Jerome Hosein is WIPA’s feature for today. Aged 27, Akeal, aka ‘Dan’ or ‘Keely’, hails from Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. Akeal started playing cricket in a small Savannah near his home at around age 7 in a windball tournament.  His inspiration came mostly from his dad, but also, Akeal wants to…

January 13, 2020 We’re just a week away from the first #BANvWI ODI. We have so many potential debutants, WIPA decided to get some intel, just for you 😉 Our first feature will be on Kyle Rico Mayers, aka ‘Dappa’, 28 years old, from St Thomas & St James, Barbados, called to both the ODI & Test…

In 2016, Stacy-Ann King was part of the West Indies squad that won the ICC Women’s World T20 title following victory over Australia in the final in Kolkata. Fast forward two years, and the Women’s World T20 Champion, King, has found herself in a different capacity, this time as co-commentator for ESPN Caribbean during their…

Thirty-three-year-old Guyana fast bowler, Subrina Munroe, is in her 13thyear representing the national team in cricket. After picking up the game at age 16, the soft-spoken Munroe, who hails from New Amsterdam in Berbice, decided to emulate her West Indian fast bowling heroes, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh. “Growing up and seeing those two play…

At only 18 years old, Shawnisha Hector has been given the mammoth task of leading the Leeward Islands in this year’s Windies Women’s Championship. Hector has been placed in charge of players up to twice her age, but the affable young fast bowler has relished the opportunity. “I have been captaining since I was 15…

Windward Islands veteran Juliana Nero began her cricketing career way back in the year 2000 and is the only surviving member of the West Indies team that played in the solitary Test against Pakistan in Karachi in 2004. Nero is in her 17thstraight year of participating in the regional women’s cricket tournament, and the ever…

Last year’s beaten Super50 finalist, Barbados, will have in their ranks a seasoned campaigner in Danielle Small when the 2018 Windies Women’s Championship bowls off in Jamaica on June 10. The 29-year-old batting all-rounder is making a comeback to the game of cricket, after last representing the national team in 2014. An injury had forced…

Trinidad and Tobago right arm slow bowler Karishma Ramharack is a woman on a mission. The 23-year-old will be representing the twin island republic for the 4thtime in the women’s regional tournament and the Tunapuna based cricketer has set her sights high in 2018. After bursting on to the scene with a match-winning, and record-breaking,…