West Indies’ batsman Rovman Powell plays a shot as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella watches during
their second Twenty20 cricket match in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, Friday, March 6, 2020. Associated Press/Eranga
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Sri Lanka to tour West Indies after
home series against England
By Azad Ali
Legendary former West Indies Captain,
Sir Vivian Richards and batting
genius has labeled the regional team
fielding as “amateurship,” saying it
could ill afford to be so poor in the field
especially since their batting was not
yet up to scratch.
Speaking against the backdrop of
the recent 2-0 whitewash on the Test
tour of New Zealand, Sir Viv said lapses
in the field were clear signs the concentration
of West Indies players was
also lacking.
“When you hear that you’re playing
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at a particular level, the catches
that were dropping are amateurship
stuff because you cannot have a team
that maybe cannot put bat to ball on a
regular basis and continue to be dropping
all those catches,” said Sir Viv, the
only West Indies captain never to lose
a Test series during a radio interview
in Antigua.
West Indies suffered a humiliating
defeat against New Zealand, losing the
three-match Twenty 20 International
series, 2-0, before losing going down by
the same margin in the Test series.
Sir Viv was critical of the way fast
bowler Alzarri Joseph was being utilized
in the attack, contending he needed
to be introduced earlier.
“I don’t believe he’s being handled
particularly right at this time,” he
said.
Joseph is the youngest member of
the regular attack. He was one of the
heroes of the West Indies Under-19s
side that won the 2016 ICC Youth
World Cup in Bangladesh.
He made his international debut
later that year and has so far taken 32
wickets from 13 Tests and 48 from 28
One-Day Internationals.
By Nelson A. King
Sri Lanka are set to tour the Caribbean
following their home series
against England in January, according
to cricketaddictor.com.
The cricket news outlet said on
Dec. 24 that the islanders will play
two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is
against the West Indies in February-
March 2021.
The Test series will be part of the
ICC World Test Championship, and
the series will be played for the Sobers-
Tissera Trophy, the addictor said.
It said Sri Lanka are currently in
South Africa for a two-match Test
series, which started on Dec. 26.
It will be followed by two more Tests
against England at home.
The second Test of the series is
scheduled to be played from Jan. 22,
the addictor said.
It said the home series against Sri
Lanka will be the first international
match in the Caribbean since the outbreak
of COVID-19 in March.
India was the last international
team to tour the Caribbean in September
2019.
Since then, the addictor said West
Indies has been involved in three Test
series away from home.
“We have asked Cricket West Indies
to send us their health guidelines, and
we are awaiting a response,” said Sri
Lanka Cricket Chief Executive Officer,
Ashley de Silva. “Once we receive the
guidelines, we will definitely evaluate
it and then take a call.
“We will have further discussions
with them on the health part of it,” he
added.
With regard to the situation of the
COVID-19 pandemic in the Caribbean,
De Silva said: “We haven’t got any
feedback from them regarding the
pandemic and we haven’t heard very
much about it.”
Red Force
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recent appointment of David Furlonge
as head coach and Sebastien
Edwards as manager.
Pollard successfully captained the
Trinidad and Tobago Knight Riders
to victory in the 2020 Caribbean
Premier League (CPL) T20 tournament
and was an integral member
of Mumbai Indians in the Indian
Premier League (IPL), which won the
tournament.
Under his inspirational leadership,
the Red Force which is likely to comprise
its top players, many are back
home after representing the West
Indies overseas, will be highly favored
to win the regional championship.
Windies salaries
Cricket West Indies CEO Johnny
Grave. https://twitter.com/johnnygrave
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CWI, like many other international
sporting organizations around the
world, is facing significant loss of
income with no international cricket
being played until recently.
CWI had stated then that these
temporary measures will only be in
place for not more than three to six
months.
However, West Indies was the first
team to resume international cricket
with their tour of England in June
followed by the Hero Caribbean Premier
League (CPL) and then the
recently concluded tour of New Zealand.
The team will have its third international
tour during the pandemic
in early January when players travel
to Bangladesh.
‘Gayle’ storm
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due to the ongoing global COVID-19
pandemic.
Eight teams will do battle in the
tournament, which is in its fourth
year.
Sir Viv blames Windies poor fielding for whitewash
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