Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, left, wins the 100 meters, as American track and fi eld sprinter Sha’carri Richardson,
center, also competes, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, at the Prefontaine Classic track and fi eld meet in Eugene,
Ore. Richardson fi nished in last place. Associated Press/Thomas Boyd
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West Indies in second edition of WTC
By Azad Ali
West Indies will face trips to Australia,
South Africa and Sri Lanka when
the second edition of the ICC World Test
Championship (WTC) for the 2021-23
cycle begins later this month.
The Caribbean side finished eighth
in the first edition of the WTC, which
New Zealand won.
In the schedule announced recently
by the governing International Cricket
Council, West Indies will also play home
series against Pakistan, Bangladesh and
England.
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Each match in the Championship
will now be contested for the same
number of points — 12 for a win, four
for a draw and six for a tie, moving away
from the previous system where the
same number of points were allocated
to each series, divided by the number of
matches played.
The cut-off date for the WTC fixtures
to be completed is March 31, 2023.
West Indies has begun its Championship
campaign against Pakistan in
a two-match series, which started on
Aug. 12.
By Azad Ali
Fast bowler Jayden Seales, wrote
his name in the history books after
he smashed a 71-year-old record to
become the first teenager with a
five-wicket Test cricket haul for West
Indies in the first Test against Pakistan
at Sabina Park, Jamaica three
weeks ago.
Legendary off-spinner Jamaican
Alf Valentine held the record for the
youngest ever West Indian with a
five-wicket haul as a 20-year-old in
1950 but Seales, made his Test debut
in June. Valentine who was born in
Jamaica died in 2004 in Florida.
Seales, who made his Test debut
in June, eclipsed the record when he
knocked over tail-enders Yasir Shah
(4), Shaheen Afridi, (0) and Hassan
Ali (28) to leave the visitors 203 all
out.
team, which included West Indies legend,
Brian Lara.
Bravo first played for the West Indies
in April 2004 in an One-Day International
contest against England in Guyana,
before making his Test debut at the home
of cricket three months later against
England at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
His Test career ended in 2010 after
playing 40 matches and his 164-match
ODI career which spanned 10 years until
2014.
Bravo began playing Twenty20 matches
for the West Indies in 2006 and it is
the format that made the Trinidadian
a global star especially in West Indies
cricket and India.
He helped West Indies win World
titles in 2012 and 2016.
The cricketer has made a name for
himself in Twenty20 cricket by playing
in every popular franchise cricket
tournament in the world including the
Indian Premier League and the Big Bash
in Australia.
The West Indies-Pakistan Twenty20
series, which ended earlier this month,
was Bravo’s last match for West Indies on
Caribbean soil.
On that day of the final Twenty20
match, West Indies Twenty20 Captain,
Kieron Pollard confirmed this in a video
posted by Cricket West Indies media.
Qualifiers
The qualifiers in December will
determine the last three spots for
next year’s World Cup in New Zealand
from March 4 to April 3.
in 1988.
Thompson-Herah was confident she
could beat that time – and break the
200m record as well.
“I have so much more in me, so yes, it’s
possible,” she said.
Sha’Carri Richardson’s highly anticipated
return to the track ended in frustration
as the American finished last.
She missed the Olympics because of a
one-month suspension after testing positive
for cannabis at the U.S. team trials
in June.
“Count me out if you want to,” said
Richardson, 21, insisting that she had
more left to accomplish. “I’m here to
stay.”
In the men’s 100m event, Tokyo bronze
medallist Andre de Grasse won in a windaided
9.74, with Americans Fred Kerley
and Ronnie Baker finishing in 9.78 and
9.82, respectively.
“I didn’t feel like I really executed that
day in the Olympic finals, I didn’t get off
the blocks,” said de Grasse. “Today I feel
like I did a good job of coming off the
blocks and my transition was good so I
knew it was going to be a good race after
that.”
The meet saw speedy performances
across the board, as American Noah Lyles
surged out of the turn to win the men’s
200 metres in a world-leading 19.52 seconds
after finishing a disappointing third
in Tokyo.
“It’s a tight little bow on the end of the
season,” said Lyles. “I feel like (after) five
sessions of therapy I was able to let go of
what happened in Tokyo.”
Olympic champion Athing Mu won the
women’s 800 metres in 1:55.04, her last
race of the season in which she also won
gold in the 4×400 relay.
“I feel like I’m just running on a high,
and just going back to back to back with
things, I haven’t really had time to sit
down and actually embrace it,” said the
19-year-old American. “So hopefully with
the next couple of weeks I’ll get to do
that.”
With her key rival and world record
holder Sydney McLaughlin absent, Tokyo
silver medallist Dalilah Muhammad
made light work of the 400 metres hurdles,
winning by more than one second
in 52.77.
In the women’s 3,000-metre steeplechase,
Kenya’s Norah Jeruto put up a
world-leading 8:53.65 to win, as American
Courtney Frerichs took second in
8:57.77 after winning silver in Tokyo.
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