Gold medalist Nicholas Paul, right, and silver medalist Njisane Phillip, both of Trinidad and Tobago, pose for photos
after the cycling track sprint men fi nals during the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019.
Associated Press / Silvia Izquierdo
Caribbean L 38 ife, Aug. 16-23, 2019 BQ
ries from wicket / keeper / batsman
Rishabh Pant (65 not out) and captain
Virat Kholi (59) as India reached
their target with five balls to spare.
Veteran Kieron Pollard scoring his
first half Twenty20 century in seven
years when he top scored 58 off 45
balls as West Indies scored 146 for
six off their 20 overs, after being put
in to bat.
Rovman Powell struck an unbeaten
32 off 20 balls but no other West
Indian batsman managed to pass
20 in yet another disappointing performance.’
Fast bowler, Deepak Chakar, in
only his second Twenty20 International,
blew away the West Indies top
order with three wickets for four runs
from a three-over spell to earn the
Man-of-the-Match title.
India won the first two Twenty20
played in Florida a few days before.
ing game against Pakistan because they
fired everybody,” the Nation newspaper
reported Riley saying Friday.
Riley, who is also a CWI director, is
the first high-profile regional cricket
official to hit out at management since
the World Cup.
“I am an angry man. I do not like
what they have done.”
Following the resignation of coach
Stuart Law, CWI had appointed a temporary
coach in Richard Pybus, who along
with two assistant coaches inspired the
West Indies to a 2-1 upset over England
during a Caribbean tour from January
to March.
In beating England the West Indies
took back the Wisden Trophy, which the
English held for the past 10 years.
The lowly-rated West Indies also
managed to tie 2-all an ODI series
against the English, the world number
one team at the time.
Elections shortly after the English
tour of the West Indies saw a change in
CWI management with Ricky Skerritt
taking over the presidency.
Among the immediate changes
implemented by the Skerritt team was
dismissal of Pybus and his coaching
team.
“Jason Holder, the captain, begged
him not to do it, I begged him not to do
it. I am hurt,” Said Riley.
Since the abrupt change in the
coaching team the only significant official
match the West Indies players have
won was their World Cup triumph over
Pakistan.
Ironically the England side that the
West Indies held to a 2-all draw in the
Caribbean went on to win the World
Cup while the regional team barely
managed to keep itself from the bottom
by being above Afghanistan.
“It hurts,” Riley told the Nation newspaper.
“We should have done better. We
finished second last. … I know we could
have done better.”
event on the San Miguel circuit.
The 2018 Central American and Caribbean
(CAC) Games Women’s road race
champion also became the first female
cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago from
Team TTO to ever win a medal at a Pan
Am Games.
T&T’s medal haul were 13 (two
gold in cycling), eight silver -four in
athletics, two in road cycling, one in
track cycling, one in rowing, and three
bronze- in boxing, swimming and athletics
which is a Pan Am record haul.
T&T previous best was eight in 2015.
Conde Riley, with the Barbados
Cricket Association. Associated Press /
Lynne Sladky
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TRINIS SCORE WITH WINNING RIDE
Barbados cricket boss slams Cricket West Indies
Whitewash
Barbados cops
Pan Am gold
Barbadian athlete, Shane Brathwaite.
Photo by George Alleyne
By George Alleyne
Shane Brathwaite edged United
States’ Freddie Crittenden III to
breast the tape in 13:31 seconds in
the 110 hurdles and cop Barbados’
sole gold medal and become star of
the island’s show at the 2019 Pan Am
games.
In fact, Brathwaite’s win on the
penultimate day of the three-week
event proved to be the only saving
grace for Barbados as the total of 31
athletes had no other medal to show
for their efforts in Lima, Peru.
The Barbados Nation newspaper
reported the hurdler admitting to a
sleepless night before the event and
nervousness at the beginning of the
race.
“I had to forget my lack of sleep
when I got to the line and remind
myself how good these guys were,
knowing that they would bring it. …
I remained focused on my lane, as
that is what I had been working so
hard to achieve,” he told the Nation
newspaper.
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