West Indies women cricket team’s skipper Stafanie Taylor, right and her Pakistani counterpart Javeria Khan pose
for photograph with the trophy, at the National Stadium, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. Associated Press/
Fareed Khan
WI selectors get short-term contract extensions
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) Chief
Executive Officer, Johnny Grave, has
confirmed short-term contract extensions
for under-fire chief selector,
Roger Harper and his panel until the
end of the year.
He said the move was simply to
minimize disruption amid a heavy
volume of international commitments
and the ongoing review of the
selection process.
Speaking in the wake of the West
Indies Twenty20 World Cup travesty,
Grave said the two-year contracts of
selectors, along with those of team
management, had been extended only
the end of the year and that an
announcement on any new appointments
or renewals would be made by
CWI following that period.
Grave said the team management
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as well as selectors were coming up to
the end of their contracts signed two
years ago and “we have extended most
of them just until the end of the year,
adding that they are going through a
review period at the moment.”
Harper and the panel have found
themselves at the center of heavy
public criticism and calls for their
firing following West Indies’ abysmal
showing at the recent T20 World
Cup which saw the Kieron Pollard-led
team losing four of their five group
games to finish at the bottom of
Group 1.
Harper and the panel comprising
Miles Bascombe and Head Coach,
Phil Simmons, were appointed in
October 2019 following an overhaul
of the selection process carried out by
the then newly elected Ricky Skerrit
administration.
UWI degrees
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in Barbados.
Sir Gordon was one of the most successful
opening batsmen of the game,
averaging 44.72 in Tests, largely in
partnership with Haynes, who averaged
42.29 in the same format. No
other opening pair has scored as many
runs together in international cricket.
The West Indies Players’ Association
(WIPA) President, Wavell Hinds
in extending commendations to both
former West Indies top cricketers said:
“We salute Sir Gordon Greenidge and
Desmond Haynes for their contribution
to West Indies and international
cricket and the award of honorary doctorates
in recognition in that contribution.
It is a well-deserved honor that all
West Indies can be proud of.”
to take place among stakeholders
on establishing another competition
aimed at unveiling new talent.
“When we had the Caribbean T20,
that was an opportunity for people to
bring in new talents from different
parts of the Caribbean and we are
able to have a sort of nucleus for this
last generation also,” he added
West Indies arrived at the World
Cup tournament as reigning champions
but saw their title defense fall
flat, losing four of their five matches
to finish fifth of six teams in Group 1
with two points.
breezy 51 not out off 67 balls with seven
fours to record her maiden ODI half
century while Haley Matthews struck
a fluent 49 off 58 deliveries with eight
fours, to sustain her form and clinch
Player-of- the-Match series honors.
Muneeba Ali had earlier top scored
with 58 off 88 deliveries while Aliya
Riaz hit an unbeaten 44 off 57 balls
as Pakistan Women gathered 225 for
seven off their 50 overs after being sent
in to bat.
New ball medium pace bowlers Shakera
Selman (2-40) and Aaliyah Alleyne
(2-41) finished with two wickets each.
West Indies Women endured a nightmare
start, after losing the in-form
Deandra Dottin for four to the first
ball of the run chase by the LBW route
before partner Rashada Williams followed
in the fourth over for six.
However, the right-handed Taylor
took command of the run chase, posting
88 for the fourth wicket with Matthews
before putting on a further 129
in an unbroken fifth wicket stand with
Nation.
West Indies Women will now travel
to Zimbabwe to compete in the ICC
World Cup qualifiers from Nov. 21 to
Dec. 5.
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West Indies’ Captain, Kieron Pollard.
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WI WOMEN MAKE CLEAN SWEEP
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Cricket West Indies CEO, Johnny
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West Indies batting legend, Desmond
Haynes.
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