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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) Sir Andy Roberts has questioned the effectiveness of director of cricket, Jimmy Adams, claiming the former West Indies captain appeared to be on a "joyride" rather tha. ....
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Sir Andy Roberts has questioned the effectiveness of director of cricket, Jimmy Adams, claiming the former West Indies captain appeared to be on a “joyride” rather than ac. ....
Chief executive Johnny Grave is confident a “record year” of revenues can transform Cricket West Indies’ finances crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and return the organisation to sustainability.Pointing to major money-spinning home tours this year, along with disbursements from the International Cricket Council, Grave said CWI could find itself with a major surplus which would go towards wiping out deficits incurred due to the last two years of the global pandemic.And barring any hiccups, Grave stressed that 2022 could be the first of three straight years of robust revenues for the regional governing body. ....
Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, has admitted to being surprised by the timing of Kieron Pollard’s retirement from international cricket.The 34-year-old Trinidadian ended his 2-½ year tenure as West Indies white-ball captain when he called time on his career earlier this month, with the Caribbean side already preparing for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next October.“I thought he would continue at least until the T20 World Cup in Australia,” Grave said.“Obviously the 50-over game is that longer format and the older you get, the more difficult it gets to play, and that may not have surprised me if he had called it a day after the T20 World Cup later this year. ....
Harper knocks Kensington Oval pitch Article by July 30, 2021 Chief selector Roger Harper has also taken aim at the quality of the Kensington Oval pitch for the recent one-day series against Australia, but also conceded West Indies’ batsmen had also failed to make the adjustments required. The former West Indies off-spinner said the pitch had produced too much variation for a limited overs game, and it left the home side’s batsmen with an enormous challenge with which they never really came to grips. West Indies lost the three-match series 2-1. “Coming to Barbados in the ODIs – different format, longer format – I think the team generally found the pitches a little challenging and didn’t adapt as well as they should’ve from a batting perspective,” Harper explained. ....