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Brandon King’s unbeaten 81 helped Guyana Amazon Warriors make it a magnificent seven wins out of seven to start their 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign with a comfortable eight-wicket victory over St Lucia Zouks at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground. The Warriors are assured of a top-two finish and with it a place…

The West Indies Emerging Players, as selected by Cricket West Indies (CWI), taking part in the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) have been putting impressive performances. All teams at this year’s tournament had to select two of the best up and coming Caribbean cricketers for this year’s event and there have been a number of standout…

St Lucia Zouks jumped from last place in the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table to a playoff spot with a fine 20-run victory over St Kitts & Nevis Patriots at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground. The win lifts the Zouks to five points and above both Jamaica Tallawahs and Barbados Tridents into fourth…

Jamaica Tallawahs picked up just their second win of the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) after successfully defending 127 all out to stun Barbados Tridents by five runs in a thriller at the Kensington Oval. There appeared little hope for the Tallawahs after a largely disappointing effort with the bat, but the Tridents found…

RUNAWAY LEADERS After 20 matches of the 2019 CPL the Guyana Amazon Warriors and Trinbago Knight Riders have emerged as clear frontrunners. The Amazon Warriors are yet to lose a match while the Knight Riders only defeat came in a Super Over against St Kitts and Nevis Patriots. RECORD RUN RATES The CPL so far…

The West Indies Under-19 training camp came to an end on Sunday, September 22 with a final practice match at the Coolidge Cricket Ground. The young men had ten days of grueling training, which introduced some of them to the professionalism and level of cricket expected at the international level. For three of those young…

Guyana Amazon Warriors opened a three-point lead at the top of the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table as they extended their perfect start to the season to six matches and guaranteed a playoff spot with a rain-affected victory over Barbados Tridents at the Kensington Oval. The Warriors dismissed the Tridents for just 138,…

Rain was the winner after only 12.2 overs were possible in Saturday’s Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) clash between St Lucia Zouks and Trinbago Knight Riders at Daren Sammy Stadium. Colin Ingram was the star of what play was possible, getting off the mark with two sixes within the first four balls he faced and…

It was a tale of two Powerplays as Barbados Tridents gave their 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) playoff hopes a major boost ahead of their home fixtures with a thumping 71-run victory over St Lucia Zouks at Daren Sammy Stadium. While Tridents openers Johnson Charles and Hero CPL debutant Justin Greaves blazed their way…

The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) has been working with their very supportive sponsors and commercial partners to raise funds to support the relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. At the end of the match between Jamaica Tallawahs and Guyana Amazon Warriors on Wednesday 18thSeptember the total raised has passed US$40,000.  The sponsors…

An unbroken 94-run partnership for the seventh wicket between Fabian Allen and Keron Cottoy set St Kitts & Nevis Patriots on their way to a 20-run Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) victory over Jamaica Tallawahs despite Glenn Phillips smashing 87 from 49 in reply. The Patriots looked sure to finish below par when skipper Carlos…

Guyana Amazon Warriors took advantage of Trinbago Knight Riders’ dramatic Super Over defeat to St Kitts & Nevis Patriots to move two points clear at the top of the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table with an 81-run victory at Jamaica Tallawahs. Contributions throughout the order – led by skipper Shoaib Malik’s unbeaten 67…

Carlos Brathwaite was the all-round hero in a stunning St Kitts & Nevis Patriots Super Over victory as Trinbago Knight Riders’ winning start to the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) came to an end in the most dramatic possible way. Brathwaite first made 64 from 30 balls to get the Patriots’ pursuit of the…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Australia took a clean sweep of the three-match T20 series versus the West Indies Women after they won the third match by 9 wickets at the Kensington Oval. Stafanie Taylor playing in her 100th T20 International becoming only the third West Indies Woman to accomplish that feat, won the toss and elected to bat first.…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Australia took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match T20 International series, when they defeated the West Indies Women by 9 wickets at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. The start of the match was delayed by an hour due consistently light rain. Australia won the toss and sent the West Indies Women in to…

Akeem Jordan took 4/33 on his Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) debut to set St Kitts & Nevis Patriots on their way to a six-wicket victory over St Lucia Zouks. Jordan’s are the second-best figures ever for a Hero CPL debutant, and the best since the very first year of the tournament. He took a…

Jamaica Tallawahs recorded their first 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) victory at the fifth attempt after restricting Barbados Tridents to 140/9 and surviving a mid-innings wobble to get home with four wickets in hand thanks to Chadwick Walton’s unbeaten 51. In conditions very different to those that saw almost 500 runs in the record…

Guyana Amazon Warriors continued to match Trinbago Knight Riders win for win at the top of the 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) table after subjecting St Kitts & Nevis Patriots to a trial by spin at Warner Park. The Warriors and Knight Riders have both now won four from four after this all-too-easy seven-wicket…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Australia took a 1-0 lead in the three match T20 International series versus the West Indies, after they won the first match by 6 wickets at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. Stafanie Taylor won the toss for the West Indies Women and elected to bat first. Britney Cooperand Kyshona Knight opened the batting, but Australia made early in…

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Cricket West Indies (CWI) Interim Selection Panel named an unchanged 13-member West Indies Women squad to face Australia Women in three Twenty 20 Internationals at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, on September 14, 16 and 18. The team consists of the same thirteen players who were selected for the third Colonial Medical Insurance One…

Trinbago Knight Riders blasted the highest ever Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) total – the third time that record has been broken already this season – as they thrashed Jamaica Tallawahs by 41 runs at Sabina Park to return to the top of the table. Colin Munro, one of the heroes of TKR’s success last…

St Lucia Zouks secured an impressive first victory of their 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign on a night marred by a nasty-looking injury for Jamaica Tallawahs’ star all-rounder Andre Russell. Rahkeem Cornwall continued his fine start to the season as he and Andre Fletcher did the bulk of the work to send the…

Having chased a Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) record of 242 on Tuesday night, St Kitts & Nevis Patriots were brought back down to earth by Barbados Tridents on Wednesday. While Jamaica Tallawahs had been unable to defend 241/4 here 24 hours earlier, 186/2 proved enough for the Tridents to run out 18-run winners. After…

For the first time in 16 years the West Indies Women lost an ODI series at home, when they lost the Colonial Medical Insurance One Day International series 3-0 to Australia Women by eight wickets at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Winning the toss and electing to bat first for the first time…