Kirani James of Grenada reacts after winning the bronze medal in the men’s 400-meter fi nal at the 2020 Summer
Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo. Matthias Hangst/Pool Photo via Associated Press
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has
announced a new broadcast partnership
for the region with ESPN and it’s Caribbean
Networks to become the exclusive
broadcast partner for all West Indies live
home international and regional cricket
for the 2022 season.
The new exclusive live broadcast
partnership means that CWI and ESPN
will ensure more Caribbean fans than
ever will have the chance to access live
coverage of the West Indies home international
matches.
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The first live broadcast started on
Jan. 8 with the first game of the threematch
ODI series against Ireland at
Sabina Park, Jamaica to be followed by
the one-off CG Insurance T20 International
between West Indies and Ireland.
ESPN will air the England Betway
T20 series at Kensington Oval, Barbados
from Jan. 22-30. This will be followed by
the eagerly-anticipated three Test series
in Antigua, Barbados and Grenada in
March, which will be contested for the
recently-minted Richards-Botham Trophy.
West Indies’ Roston Chase celebrates
after the fi rst test against
England at the Kensington Oval,
Bridgetown, Barbados on Jan. 26,
2019. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
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son with the English club, will be
available for all group games and
the knockout stages, should the
Bears qualify for the quarter finals
and subsequently Finals Day at
their home ground of Edgbaston.
Brathwaite was the leading
wicket-taker for the Bears in 2021
Vitality Blast, taking 18 scalps at
an average of 17.61. He scored 183
runs with the bat with a sixthwicket
partnership of 104 with
Sam Hain to secure a home win
over local rivals Worcestershire
Rapids and smashed 44 off 18
balls in the 18-run win over Kitts
Outlaws at Trent Bridge. He will
captain the Bears for the first time
this year.
Brathwaite has captained West
Indies and the SKN Patriots in the
Caribbean Premier League Twenty20.
wide cross section of expertise from
knowledgeable persons in the West
Indies as well as in the global game.
When Skerrit took over presidency
from Dave Cameron in 2019, Skerrit,
who was returned for a second
term last year, stated his intention to
champion the report’s recommendations
in an attempt to achieve much
needed comprehensive and sustainable
change for the growth and development
of the organization.
He said various reforms have
already been implemented including
most of what was presented by
financial consultants Parnell Kerr
Foster (PKF) in their 2019 Business
Situation Assessment and Financial
Review of the organization.
cializes in the 200 and 400 metres.
He won the 400 m at the World
Championships in 2011 and the 2012
London Olympics, according to Wikipedia,
the online encyclopedia.
In the 400 metres, it said James
also won the silver medal at the 2016
Rio Olympics and bronze medal at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics, “giving him an
Olympic medal at every level.”
“Prodigious from a young age, he
ran the fastest 400 m times ever by a
14-year-old and a 15-year-old,” Wikipedia
said.
“He won a series of gold medals at
the CARIFTA Games and the Commonwealth
Youth Games and rose on the
international stage with 400 m silver
medals at the 2007 World Youth and
2008 World Junior Championships,” it
added, stating that James became the
first athlete to run a 200/400 double
at the 2009 World Youth Championships
and was the 2010 World Junior
Champion.
James received an athletic scholarship
at the University of Alabama
and won back-to-back NCAA Outdoor
Championship titles in his first two
years, Wikipedia said.
It said he is the third fastest of alltime
indoors (44.80 seconds) and ran
a personal best of 43.74 at a 2014 Diamond
League event in Lausanne.
James is one of only nine athletes,
along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt,
Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jacques
Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Jana Pittman,
Dani Samuels and David Storl, to
win world championships at the youth,
junior and senior level of an athletic
event, Wikipedia said.
James was diagnosed with the
autoimmune disorder Graves’ disease
in 2017 and used his recovery time to
complete his business degree at the
University of Alabama, Olympics.com
said.
“Like women’s 100m champion Gail
Devers, he will need to take medication
for the condition for the rest of his
life,” it said.
“He took time out in 2019 following
the death of his mother, and needed the
final day of the qualification window to
make the Doha World Championships
after some niggling injuries. Given
that build-up, his fifth place behind
Gardiner was more than respectable,”
Olympics.com added.
“And he’s shown that he’s right back
to his best in Tokyo, winning his semifinal
in a very fast 43.88,” it continued.
“While that performance was not as
effortless as Gardiner’s, the 28-yearold
is sure to be right in the mix for a
third Olympic medal.”
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Cricket West Indies President,
Ricky Skerritt. Cricket West Indies
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KIRANI JAMES HONORED WITH CBE
CWI commits to
governance reform
ESPN to air 2022 West Indies home series
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