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It is being billed as one of the biggest T20 Internationals of the decade! Our world champions West Indies (Men In Maroon) will face home team India (Men In Blue) in the grand finale on Wednesday night in Mumbai. First ball is 7pm (9:30am Eastern Caribbean Time/8:30am Jamaica Time). With the game being played at prime…

He has opened the next chapter in his cricket career, but retired Jamaican spinner Nikita Miller says one regret lingers. The 37-year-old Miller, the assistant coach of Jamaica Scorpions during last month’s Regional Super50 campaign, shattered multiple records as a player in domestic four-day cricket before calling it quits at the end of last season.…

England registered their first victory of the Rising Stars U19 Tri-Series, securing a hard fought 29 run victory over West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. The young English unit produced a fighting team bowling performance led by their two right-arm medium pace bowlers George Balderson (4/47) and Kasey Aldridge (3/32), that enabled them to…

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India – Lendl Simmons cracked 67 to anchor West Indies to an eight-wicket win over India in the second Twenty20 International on Sunday. Simmons survived a dropped catch on six to put on 73 for the first wicket with Evin Lewis and 61 – unbroken – for the third wicket with compatriot Nicholas Pooran,…

West Indies U19s are off to a winning start in the West Indies Rising Stars U19 Tri-Series with a comfortable 36 run victory over England U19s, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Ashmead Nedd (5-27) and Leonardo Julien (69), starred with ball and bat for the West Indies youths, as the pair immediately displayed the…

HYDERABAD, India – West Indies hopes of victory in their opening Twenty20 International against India on Friday, were dashed by a breath-taking Virat Kohli masterclass. The Caribbean side conceded 112 off 46 balls, when Kohli came to his side’s rescue with a career-best, unbeaten 94, as the Indians won by six wickets with eight balls…

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announces a revised schedule for the West Indies Rising Stars U19 Tri-Series involving West Indies U19, England U19 and Sri Lanka U19. The matches will now commence one day earlier and will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium and Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua from…

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Two West Indies Championship matches will be played at Jamaica’s Trelawny Stadium next year. It will be the first time in 11 years that the ground will be staging four-day matches in the Championship, which begins on Thursday, January 9. Cricket West Indies has scheduled the fifth-round match between Jamaica Scorpions…

West Indies captain Jason Holder has maintained his position as the Number 1 allrounder in Test cricket, while Roston Chase has joined him in the Top 10. Holder continues to sit on the top spot – a position he has held all year – while the fast-improving Chase earned a place at Number 8. However, it’s the spectacular rise…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) announces the appointment of Monty Desai as the new West Indies Men’s Batting Coach, on a two-year contract. Desai is a highly-respected and experienced coach who has worked with several teams at the franchise level as well as with several international teams. He worked with Canada, as their…

Jason Holder’s plan to move the West Indies into Test cricket’s Top 5 has already started to bear fruit. Following the comprehensive nine-wicket win over Afghanistan last week and Pakistan’s defeat to Australia on Monday, Holder’s team has leapfrogged the Pakistanis on the ICC Test match rankings table. A check on the ICC website https://www.icc-cricket.com shows West…

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – West Indies Emerging Players are the 2019 Colonial Medical Insurance champions, after securing a commanding 205 run victory over Leeward Islands Hurricanes. Led by a captain’s man of the match all-round performance by Yannic Cariah who had tremendous assistance from his team mates, the Emerging players triumph makes it the second year…

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – The 2019 Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Final will be a battle of tradition against Innovation, after Leeward Islands Hurricanes toppled hosts Trinidad And Tobago Red Force with a stunning four-wicket triumph. The Hurricanes, an established regional team but underdogs in recent Caribbean domestic competitions, as a result face off with the strategically…

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies has launched the online sale of tickets for Ireland’s Tour of the West Indies in January 2020. Fans can now visit www.windiescricket.com to make their online ticket purchases through the “Buy Tickets” button for all of the matches to be staged in Barbados, Grenada and St. Kitts for the first,…

Three-mendous work by Skipper as West Indies secure the Bag! West Indies completed a comprehensive victory by nine wickets in the one-off Test against Afghanistan at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday morning. On a hazy morning which required the use of floodlights, captain Jason Holder took all three wickets to mop up…

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The West Indies Emerging players participating in only their second season in the domestic list A competition, battled into their maiden finals appearance with a tense three wicket victory over six time tournament winners, Barbados Pride via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method. View Scorecard here Déjà Vu Moment  On November 25, before the…

A majestic maiden Test century from Shamarh Brooks and top-quality spin bowling from Rahkeem Cornwall and Roston Chase have put West Indies in full control over Afghanistan on the second day of the one-off Test match at Ekana Cricket Stadium in the city of Lucknow. Brooks scored 111 off 214 balls with 15 boundaries and…

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies selection panel today named the two squads to face India in the One-Day International and T20 Internationals next month. The selectors have kept faith with the players who recently played against Afghanistan in Lucknow, India. West Indies, the reigning ICC World T20 champions, will face India in three…

The fortunes of the West Indies Test team in Asia have not been strong in recent times. In their last 11 matches in either Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh or the UAE, the Windies have come out victorious on just one occasion, when they beat Pakistan in Sharjah back in 2016. The traditional tropes of…

CricViz analyst Srinivas Vijaykumar looks how Rahkeem Cornwall’s career best performance gave Windies the upper hand at the end of Day 1 in this one-off Test match Jason Holder won the toss and elected to field first on a pitch that had a fair bit of grass, hoping for assistance for his seamers early on.…

Rahkeem Cornwall announced himself on the world stage with a memorable bowling performance as West Indies dominated Afghanistan in the opening day of the inaugural Test between the two sides. The off-spinner had the remarkable figures of 7-75 on his first outing outside the Caribbean and second Test. Cornwall’s heroics were helped by some stunning…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A crisp maiden List A hundred from Paul Palmer failed to ignite Combined Campuses & Colleges Marooners and Canada rode a strong all-round performance from Harsh Thaker to a 51-run victory in the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup on Monday. Palmer struck 12 boundaries in the top score of 105 from 123 balls…

Cricket West Indies today announced the fifteen man squad for the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup that takes place in South Africa in January 2020. Captained by Kimani Melius, this exciting young squad will firstly be facing the England U19s and Sri Lanka U19s in the West Indies Rising Stars U19 Tri-Series to be held…

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Statisticians are leafing through old scorecards and checking online sources to confirm, after Rovman Powell smashed what could possibly be the fifth fastest List A hundred in a losing cause for Jamaica Scorpions in the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup on Sunday. But Leeward Islands Hurricanes withstood a brutal 106 off…