The West Indies team’s 2-0 victory in its recently concluded Test Series at home against Bangladesh has provided some very encouraging signs for its fans and followers. The West Indies comfortably won both matches of the series.The West Indies victory margin for the Antigua-hosted First Test was seven wickets. For the second, played at St Lucia’s Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, it was by an even wider margin of ten wickets. Both matches were concluded on the fourth of the respectively scheduled five days.Three of the West Indies’ top-order batsmen, Kyle Mayers, Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell, were among the top five in the standings for the highest run-scorers after the two Tests. Undoubtedly a most welcomed and very pleasing development for the team’s coaching staff, as well as the West Indies Selection Panel.Of the three, Kyle Mayers’ return to form to head the standings, with both the most runs (153) and best average (76.50), would have been the most welcomed. Mayers’
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The West Indies Four-Day Regional Championship resumes on May 18 and will continue uninterrupted through to the conclusion of its June 1-4, fifth and final round. The tournament’s third and fourth rounds will be played from May 18-21 and 25 – 28 respectively.The final rounds will allow three sets of matches to be played by each of the six participating regional franchise teams: Barbados Pride, Guyana Harpy Eagles, Jamaica Scorpions. Leeward Islands Hurricanes, Trinidad & Tobago Red Pride and the Windward Islands Volcanoes. Concluding as it will be less than two weeks before the June 16 – 19 commencement of the West Indies – Bangladesh Test Series, the resumed Regional Championship will also offer ample opportunities for those wishing to advance their claims for red-ball team selection to do so.The West Indies-Bangladesh 2022 Test Series will consist of two matches. The first Test is scheduled to be played at Antigua’s Sir Vivian Richards National Stadium from June 15-19.
The first two completed rounds of the 2022 Caribbean Regional Four Day Championships would have presented the Desmond Haynes led Selection Panel with much food for thought to chew on in terms of their choices for the West Indies thirteen-member squad to face England in the forthcoming three-Test Series. The Series gets underway with the first Test being played in Antigua from March 8-12. The second and third Tests will subsequently be played respectively in Barbados (March 16-20) and Grenada (March 24 – 29).With head coach Phil Simmons still currently away in India, it was left to his fellow selectors, Chairman Desmond Haynes and his sidekick Ramnaresh Sarwan, to observe player performances during the Four-Day Championships first two rounds as they pertained to eventual choices for the forthcoming Tests against England. In some instances, they would have been very pleased by what they saw, in others overly disappointed.