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Trinidad defensive midfi elder, Kevon George (L), shields the ball from Panama’s midfi elder Armando Cooper.
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By George Alleyne
Jamaica beat Honduras and Haiti
Bested Bermuda to so far provide
the only bright sparks for Caribbean
countries in the Confederation of
North, Central American and Caribbean
Football Associations Gold Cup
2019.
Playing at home in the National
Stadium, Kingston Monday night
in the second of two fixtures that
marked the first time Gold Cup
games were held on a Caribbean territory,
the Reggae Boyz beat the Central
Americans 3-2, and Haiti got the
better of Bermuda 2-1 in the Costa
Rica National Stadium.
Up to Caribbean Life newspaper’s
press time all the other Caribbean
teams to have played so far had
fallen away since the 2019 top regional
competition kicked off Saturday,
June 15.
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West Indies Captain Stafanie Taylor.
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Windies
whitewash
By Azad Ali
West Indies Women suffered the embarrassment
of a whitewash with a heavy
defeat to England in the final three-match
series of the One-Day International (ODI)
last week, wrapping a miserable outing in
the ICC Women’s Championship.
Chasing a revised target of 267 off 39
overs in the rain-affected match at Essex
County Ground, West Indies were once
again let down by their batting and collapsed
to 131 all out, with eight deliveries
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WI cricket
campaign
By Azad Ali
The opening Test will be played at the
Vivian Richards Ground in Antigua from
Aug. 22-26, while Sabina Park, Jamaica
will be stage for the second Test from Aug.
30 to Sept. 3. The five-week tour will also
feature three One-Day Internationals and
three Twenty20s — the first two of which
will be played at the Central Broward
Regional Park, Fort Lauderdale.
The tour opens on US soil on Aug.
3 with the Twenty20 series, bringing
together two of the most exciting sides
in the game’s shortest format, in back-toback
encounters, according to CWI Commercial,
Marketing and Communications
Director, Dominic Warne.
He said this was an extension of the
thrust to build the US market adding
“we’re excited to bring two more Twenty20s
to Florida, giving the West Indies
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