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By Azad Ali
West Indies Chief Selector, Roger
Harper has made it clear that veteran
opener Chris Gayle will be among
the 20 players considered to be chosen
for the West Indies side for the
upcoming World Cup in Australia
later this year.
He stated that position after a
suggestion by former West Indies
and Barbados opening batsman Philo
Wallace that 40-year-old Gayle is no
longer needed for the Twenty20s.
Wallace said there was enough
depth in the team for it to move forward
without Gayle.
Gayle, a Jamaican, still one of the
most successful batsmen in the format
with two centuries, an average
of 32.54 and a strike rate of 142,84
for the West Indies- has ambitions of
representing the regional side as they
defend their Twenty20 World Cup
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Cricket West Indies Vice President,
Dr. Kishore Shallow.
Cricket West Indies
CWI gets
passing grade
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) vice-president
Dr. Kishore Shallow has given the
organization’s administration a passing
grade for its first year in office, pointing
to improvements in just about all areas
of the 10-point plan which the Ricky
Skerritt led team had used as platform
for election.
Dr. Shallow said among the biggest
achievements, have been an improvement
in team selection which has boosted
confidence in getting a fair chance to
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Cricket events
postponed
By Azad Ali
The International Cricket Council
(ICC) said last week that all qualifying
events for the 2021 Twenty20 World
Cup and 50-overs version of the 2023
that were scheduled to be held before
June 30 this year have been postponed
due to the coronavirus pandemic.
West Indies is among the eight teams
in the qualifying events which will now
be postponed due to the ICC decision.
The flu-like virus has affected close
to 1.5 million around the world and
killed over 87,000 since appearing in
China last December.
The pandemic has also brought global
sport to a standstill and the ICC said
in a statement it has taken the decision
to postpone all events up until the end
of June subject to further review,
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Veteran opener under Twenty20
World Cup consideration
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