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Caribbean Life, April 7-13, 2022
Guyana, CPL
sign cricket deal
By Azad Ali
The Hero Caribbean Premier League
(CPL) will host the finals from this year
until 2024 at the Providence Stadium in
Guyana.
A media release states: “This season,
Guyana will host seven group games, three
knockout matches and the Hero CPL final,
which will take place on Friday, 30 September
at the Guyana National Stadium in
Providence.”
It noted that the Hero CPL final “will be
the climax of festivities surrounding the
games taking place in Guyana. The government
of Guyana, in collaboration with the
local private sector, will reportedly stage two
weeks of events to form a “Cricket Carnival.”
The release indicated that this would “celebrate
the best Guyana has to offer, showcasing
the music, food and culture of this
vibrant and fascinating country.”
Over the previous nine seasons of Hero
CPL, it said, there had been “massive” support
for the tournament from Guyanese
fans.
The media release continued,” Guyana’s
economy is growing rapidly and the country
has a fantastic reputation for tourists looking
for unspoiled nature.”
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followed by Lasith Malinga on 170, and a
trio of retired Indian spinners — Amit
Mishra (166), Piyush Chawala (157) and
Harbhajan Singh (150).
The PCB said West Indies has agreed
to play three T20s in Pakistan early next
year, but that schedule will be announced
later.
Kycia Knight of the West Indies, left, is bowled in front of Australia’s Alyssa Healy during their semifinal match of the Women’s
Cricket World Cup between Australia and West Indies in Wellington, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. John
Cowpland/Photosport via AP
while Deandra Dottin and Haley Matthews
both struck 34, but no other batter
reached double figures.
Both Chinelle Henry and Anisa
Mohammed were unable to bat because
of injury.
Meanwhile, Australia defeated England
by 71 runs in the final to win a
record-extending 7th ODI World Cup
title at the Hayley Ground in Christchurch.
New Zealand on Sunday.
England were bundled out for 285 in
43.4 overs.
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Ramiz Raja, chairman of the Pakistan
Cricket Board. Associated Press /K.M.
Chaudary/File
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W.I WOMEN’S DREAMS SHATTERED
W.I. tour
Former Brooklyn Cricket League prez dies at 80
By Nelson A. King
Vincentian Ronald “Charles” S. Ottley, a
former president of the Brooklyn Cricket
League and one of the founders of the Brooklyn
based, Vincentian cricket club, Imperial,
died on Monday, March 28, according to his
nephew, Roland Ottley, a Brooklyn lawyer.
Ronald Ottley was 80.
Roland Ottley said his uncle, who worked
for many years as an executive at Hoffman
La Roche Laboratories in Brooklyn, was the
patriarch of the Ottley Family in Brooklyn.
Ronald Ottley, who was born on April 3,
1941, in Calder in South Windward in St. Vincent
and the Grenadines, was the first of seven
children for Lanzil and Almeda Ottley.
Roland Ottley said his uncle lived in Chateaubelair,
a town in North Leeward, also in
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, before first
migrating to Trinidad and Tobago, when he
was 14, where he completed his elementary
education and met “the love of his life”, Germaine
Browne.
“On Dec. 5, 1970, the two were married and
began their union,” Roland Ottley told Caribbean
Life. “They bought a house in Cambria
Heights, Queens in New York in the early ‘70s
and settled into the loving home.”
When he migrated to New York, Roland
Ottley said his uncle also played cricket in
Brooklyn, leading “the way in Brooklyn cricket
in the early ‘70s.”
“With his four brothers, the McKenzie
brothers and few Vincentian cricketers, they
founded the Vincentian cricket team, Imperial
Cricket Club,” he said. “There were only
two Vincentian cricket teams in the Brooklyn
Cricket League at the time.”
Roland Ottley said Ronald Ottley was
elected as the founding president of Imperial
Cricket Club and remained in that role for
about 20 years. He also served as president of
the Brooklyn Cricket League in 1971, Roland
Ottley said,. The funeral takes place on Friday
evening, April 8, at J. Foster Phillips Funeral
Home, Inc., 179-24 Linden Blvd., Jamaica,
Queens, NY 11434. Please visit this link for
more information on the funeral: https://www.
jfosterphillips.com/obituary/ronald-ottley
Interment will be conducted the next day at
the Cypress Hills Cemetery at the Brooklyn-
Queens corridor.
Ronald ‘Charles’ Ottley. Ottley Family/
Roland Ottley, Esq.
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/ronald-ottley