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West Indies player Dwayne Bravo seen here playing for Chennai Super Kings celebrates after taking Sunrisers’
Yusuf Pathan’s wicket during their VIVO IPL cricket T20 match in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 22, 2018.
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By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) President,
Ricky Skerritt has said that
the reputation and record of Dwayne
Bravo will make West Indies a stronger
team.
Bravo made a return to the West
Indies Twenty20 team recently in a
three-match series against Ireland in
Grenada and St. Kitts which ended
in a 1-1 draw after the second match
was abandoned because of rain.
Bravo, who last played for West
Indies four years ago, made an immediate
impact grabbing five wickets
in the series at a low economy rate
of 6.44.
He retired from international
cricket in October 2018, but last
December he said he was willing to
return to Twenty20 cricket because
of the changes in the Cricket West
Indies (CWI) administration which
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West Indies’s Stafanie Taylor.
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Stafanie at
the helm
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) selectors
have named a 15-member squad
for next month’s (February) Women’s
Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
Barbadian all-rounder Deandra Dottin
is poised to play her first international
in a year after being sidelined for
a shoulder injury.
Dottin, 28, the most experienced
Windies women’s player with 110 T20
caps, returned in a franchise tournament
in Trinidad in December before
resuming active training during the
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Guyanese
heads sports
commission
By Tangerine Clarke
Aliann Pompey, an exceptional 400m
sprinter, who won a Gold medal at 2002
Commonwealth Games, was recently
elected president of the Panam Sports
Athletes’ Commission. The Guyaneseborn
athlete who represented her country
four times at the games and competed
at the World Championships will be
the voice for more than 6,600 athletes
in 41 member nations that compete in
the Pan American Games.
Pompey, who has served on the athletes’
commission since 2015, and who
is the assistant coach for track & field
at St. John’s University, “said her job is
to make sure that the athlete’s voice is
heard on an executive level.
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Skerritt: Bravo’s return will make WI stronger
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