West Indies’ batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan is trapped LBW by India’s bowler Ishant Sharma during the second day
of their fi rst cricket Test match in Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday June 21, 2011. Associated Press / Andres Leighton, File
Caribbean L 32 ife, May 8-14, 2020
on the Mason and Guest show in
Barbados.
“They are not spinning the ball,”
was the observation made on the
current bunch of West Indies offspinners.
Antiguan Rahkeem Cornwall is
the newest off-spinner to play international
cricket for the West Indies.
“How could you take two steps
and bowl? Where is your rhythm?,”
he asked.
“As a spin bowler, you’ve got to
use the crease. You’ve got the return
crease and the stumps, and you bowl
between those two,” he said, adding,
Cornwall must need a run-up and
variation of pace. You can’t take two
steps and bowl.”
Gibbs, who claimed 1,024 wickets
in 330 first class matches for Guyana,
Warwickshire (England) and South
Australia expressed his displeasure
in the current state of West Indies
cricket.
“I am very disappointed in West
Indies cricket,” said Gibbs, who now
lives in Florida.
He said the Twenty20 cricket is a
slog, and the young players are not
putting their heads down and batting
for a period of time.
“We need more 50-overs cricket,”
he added.
members of the West Indies family”
Skerritt called on fans to lend their
support to “our essential services and
first responders” and urged the cricketers
to stay fit and be ready for action
when the world returns to some level
of normalcy.
“As lovers of this remarkable sport
called great, there is nothing we all
enjoy more than getting outdoors and
watching a great game”
“Today there is a new reality that we
are now facing. There is no longer live
cricket available, because all around
the world we are in a new battle. To prevent
the spread of the deadly COVID-19
virus. As such, we all now need to join
the same team as we unit in this global
battle with each other, for each. We
must now couple our passion for cricket
with our love for the health and safety
or four family, friends, community and
ourselves,” he added.
Zouks — the start of which is still in
the air because of the COVID-19 pandemic
— on the heels of him being
released by the Tallawahs before the end
of his three-year contract.
Gayle 40, played his first season of
the T20 tournament with the Tallawahs,
which he led titles in 2013, and
2016, before turning out for St. Kitts
and Nevis Patriots in the 2017 and 2018
season. He returned to his home franchise
in 2019 when the team finished at
the bottom of the table.
Gayle said when he returned to the
Tawllawhs, Sarwan was assistant coach
who wanted to be head coach, taking
over from Donovan Miller.
“I told Sarwan directly, you have no
experience being a head coach, it is not
an easy job,” Gayle said,
The hard-hitting all-rounder said
Sarwan told him it is Ok, “you’re the
captain, I have no problem, we will leave
it at that.”
Gayle said Sarwan was upset by his
assessment and the fact that Miller
was selected head coach and held that
against him.
The Jamaican also said he had issues
with the Guyanese cricketer from as
far back as 1996 when they were youth
cricketers.
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President of Cricket West Indies,
Ricky Skerritt. Cricket West Indies
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GAYLE HITS BACK AT FORMER TEAMATE
Skerritt: Unite and fight Covid
Off-spinners
Windies tour
postponed
By Azad Ali
The West Indies tour of England,
which was scheduled for June has
been postponed and will now take
place between July and September.
The announcement was made by
the England and Wales Cricket Board
(ECB) last week after a decision of its
freeze of professional cricket until
July 1.
West Indies were scheduled to tour
England for three Tests from June
4-29 but the outbreak of the novel
coronavirus pandemic, also known as
Covid-19, ruled out any chance of the
series going ahead as planned.
The ECB, which had initially
delayed the start of its domestic professional
season until May 28 said all
fixtures affected by the extension,
would be rescheduled to their new
window.
However, with the United Kingdom
one of the worst-hit regions by
the virus, ECB Executive Officer, Tom
Harrison said there was still huge
uncertainty over staging any cricket,
especially with the major issues of
public health taking priority.
In fact, Harrison said the ECB
would only go ahead of planned fixtures
once it was safe to do so.