Hope returns to Barbados Pride Grenada PM
By Azad Ali
Discarded West Indies batsman, Kyle
Hope, will attempt to rekindle a career in
shambles by returning to newly crowned
Barbados Pride for the upcoming professional
season.
Hope, 31, who has spent the last several
seasons at Trinidad and Tobago Red
Force, rejoins his native franchise are
being picked up in the first round of the
recent players draft staged by Cricket
West Indies via Zoom.
Hope had emerged as one of the
region’s most promising batsman when
he scored 553 runs for the Red Force in
the 2015-16 season and them followed up
with 649 runs the next season, to force
his way into the West Indies side.
But he failed miserably with 41 runs
from six innings in three Tests on the
2017 tour of England and following low
scores in the two-Test tour of Zimbabwe,
was axed from the team.
Hope, the older brother of Test and
one-day star Shai Hope, has struggled
since then and last season featured in
just three matches for Red Force, scoring
170 runs. Overall, Hope averages 29 from
50 first class matches.
By Azad Ali
West Indies team will be sporting
new eye-catching training and playing
kits during the Sandals Tour of
England 2020 as part of a new threeyear
partnership with Castore, the
official team kit and merchandise
partner of Cricket West Indies (CWI).
The new training outfits were
unveiled during the West Indies
training camp at Emirates Old Trafford
recently.
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The training kits feature lightweight
performance enhancing fabric
and ultra-modern maroon dark blue
and pink designs that the players love
and that fans around the world will be
excited to wear.
The new Test “whites” will be
revealed ahead at the three-Test
series against England when the
West Indies will be defending the
Wisden Trophy at the Ageas Bowl in
Southampton (July 8-12) and then at
Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester
(July 16-20) and July 24-28. Castore
the fast-growing premium performance
brand will supply team kits for
Test, Twenty20 Internationals and
One-day Internationals (ODI) games
and covering the men’s, women’s and
age group teams from Under-15 level
upwards.
It is the Liverpool, England, company’s
first deal in team sports and its
first move into cricket apparel.
West Indies’ Kyle Hope leaves the
pitch after being caught by England’s
Jonny Bairstow off the bowling
of England’s James Anderson on
the fi rst day of the third test match
between England and the West Indies
at Lord’s cricket ground in London,
Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Associated
Press / Kirsty Wigglesworth, File
which have been good. Generally
speaking so far, I must say they have
been trying. It’s not a finished product
yet but I don’t expect you can
dismantle everything overnight,” he
said on the Mason & Guest cricket
radio show in Barbados recently.
The Grenadian leader said a meeting
with CWI leadership and Caribbean
leaders is in the works, to discuss
the way forward as the structure
of the regional game is concerned.
And given CWI’s financial situation
which has worsened as a result of
the instability to host revenue-generating
matches during the COVID-19
pandemic, Mitchell said “the whole
question of the finances of the board
will clearly have to be looked at.”
“I am confident that regional governments,
despite the fact they are all
going through enough pressure, they
know the value of West Indies cricket
and the enormous potential it holds
for economic activity,” he said.
However, Mitchell believes CWI
already has a foundation on which to
build the required improved structure.
He alluded to previous recommendations
which he said to be acted
on. Mitchell, an avid cricket fan, also
pointed to the need for changes in
the sport at the community level in
the regional cricket territories.
He said some serious structures
have to be done at the level of various
boards such as the Windward Islands,
Grenada, St. Lucia and Dominica.”
“They have to restructure the
board at different levels and make it
more acceptable to the people of the
region,” Mitchell said.
America. We are convinced that the
‘Market for Cricket’ in the USA could
experience an income of over half a
billion dollars US dollars per year,
with the right person,” according to
the letter.
It added, “Dave Cameron was inducted
into the Cricket Hall of Fame in
2018 for the work he did in transforming
West Indies cricket, in particular,
his introduction if professional cricket
to the area.”
Manohar is to step down when his
term ends this year. The ICC is set to
discuss the process to elect its new
chief soon. England and Wales Cricket
Board Chief, Colin Graves is favorite to
fill the post.
The new chairman is set to formally
take over when the ICC’s annual
general meeting is held at the end of
St. Lucia Zouks Captain, Darren
Sammy. Associated
Press / Rob Griffi th, File
Despite the disappointment of
not having the Twenty20 star in the
squad, Sammy said he understood
the reason for his decision.
Former Cricket West Indies President,
Dave Cameron. Associated Press
/ Ricardo Mazalan, File
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