Ryan Crouser of the United States competes in the men’s shot put during the Athletissima IAAF Diamond League
international athletics meeting at the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 26,
Caribbean Life, N 36 OVEMBER 12-18, 2021
Sponsorship
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has
announced the end of the arrangement
that Sandals Resorts International as
the principal partner of West Indies
cricket for the last four years.
Sandals became CWI’s principal
partner, enjoying branding across all
West Indies men’s, women’s and agegroup
teams in 2017, a partnership
extended by a further year during the
course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A CWI release said the partnership
with Sandals was “part of the incredible
legacy of the late Sandals’ Chairman,
Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who was a lifelong
supporter of West Indies cricket
and who made sure that the Sandals
brand stood proudly on the shirts of all
West Indian cricketers, continuously
over the past four years.”
By Azad Ali
West Indies will host the first-ever
ICC Men’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup
in early January 2022.
Trinidad and Tobago government
announced recently it has approved a
bid to host matches.
Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert
revealed that the government will bid
to host matches in the 2022 ICC Under-
19 Cricket World Cup.
He said the government also intends
to host matches during the England
tour of the West Indies next year.
The minister said the government
has recently approved the submission
of a bid to host matches in January
2022 of the Men’s Under-19 Cricket
World Cup.
The West Indies will host the 2022
World Cup in early 2022, when England
is set to tour the West Indies from Jan.
28 – March 12.
Caribbean countries started bidding
to host matches earlier this year. The
tournament will feature 16 teams competing
in 64 matches over a one month
in the 50-Over format.
Cricket West Indies (CWI) said over
75 million people will watch the tournament
and will inject an estimated
US$75 million into the country of each
host nation.
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and elected to field, lost their power
hitters cheaply before being restricted
to 169 for eight. Shimron Hetmyer narrowed
the defeat with a fighting 81 off
54 balls.
The 42-year-old Chris Gayle could
only score one, Andre Russell made only
nine while the world’s new No. 1 T20
bowler, leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga
(2-19), cleaned bowled Dwayne Bravo
(one) and Captain Kieron Pollard for a
duck as West Indies lost wickets at regular
intervals in a steep chase.
Two-time champions West Indies,
managed a solitary win over Bangladesh
— winning one and losing four.
In their last group game on Saturday
they lost to Australia.
David Warner smashed 89 not out to
lead the Aussies to an eight-wicket victory
over West Indies — with Dwayne
Bravo and Chris Gayle — possibly playing
their last games for West Indies.
Put in to bat, the already eliminated
West Indies did well to reach 157-7
while Australia replied with 161-2 in
16.2 overs.
The new trophy honors Sir Vivian
Richards and Lord Ian Botham whose
friendship on-field heroics became synonymous
with some of their respective
teams’ greatest Test moments.
The first Test will be played from
March 8-12 at the Sir Vivian Richards
Stadium in Antigua and the second
from March 16-20 at Kensington Oval,
Barbados.
The final Test will be at the National
Stadium in Grenada from March 24
– 28.
“But it was the 29-year-old Jamaican,
Thompson-Herah, who truly captured
the public imagination,” NACAC said.
“The double women’s sprint champion
from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, she turned in performances
the likes of which have not been
seen since at least four years before her
birth.
“Thompson-Herah’s 2021 season will
go down in history, as she produced
one of the greatest runs of excellence of
all time,” it added. “Within the span of
just over three weeks, between the end
of July and late August, she won two
individual gold medals at the Olympic
Games in Tokyo, Japan.
“Her 100m win came in an Olympic
record time of 10.61, while her
200m victory four days thence yielded a
national record time of 21.53 seconds,”
NACAC continued.
It said that, shortly after her double
Olympic triumph, which she topped off
by winning the sprint relay with Jamaica,
Thompson-Herah lined up at the
Prefontaine Classic, in Hayward Field,
Eugene, Oregon.
“She stamped her class with a run of
10.54 seconds, a new national record,
and–like her 200m Olympic win–the
fastest time in the world since Florence
Griffith-Joyner’s World record in 1988,”
NACAC said.
It said Thompson-Herah would go
on to take her third Diamond League
title, winning the women’s 100m final in
Zürich with a time of 10.65 seconds. It
was the seventh Diamond League title for
Jamaica in the women’s 100m, NACAC
said.
It said only five women this century
have ended a season with the fastest
times in both the 100m and 200m.
Coming into the season, four of those
five were Jamaican, NACAC said, adding
that “this season, Thompson-Herah
became the first woman ever to repeat
that feat following her 2016 success.”
In the process, NACAC said Thompson
Herah went under the 10.80-second
barrier 15 times.
“Only her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser
Pryce, has more such runs,” it said.
“But Thompson-Herah is the queen of
sub-10.70 runs, with four such, more
even than Flo Jo.
Thompson-Herah, Fraser-Pryce, and
Shericka Jackson completed the Tokyo
women’s 100m medal podium, and the
three Jamaicans have combined for 34
runs under 11 seconds this year, NACAC
said.
“The athletics fraternity will be eager
to see what Thompson-Herah can produce
in 2022,” it said. “The World Championships
beckon. She is defending champion.
The event will be held at the venue
where she ran closer to the World record
than anyone has done in over 30 years.
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