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Ryan Hinds looking for Windies Test recall

Fri, Jan 27, '12

 

Barbados

 Barbados left-hander Ryan Hinds has not given up on playing Test cricket again.  According to a report in the Barbados Nation newspaper, Hinds said: "Of course, I’m looking to play Test cricket again. Every year, I go out there, I always try to put myself in a position to represent the West Indies."  Hinds averages 21.04 in his 15 previous Tests but has amassed 6 630 runs (ave: 39.00) in 116 first-class matches and has taken 222 wickets at 27.29 runs apiece. 

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WICB set to meet on Guyana fiasco

Thu, Jan 26, '12

 

Media Watch

THE WEST Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Executive will hold a teleconference on Saturday in an attempt to find a much-needed resolution to the controversy which continues to affect cricket in Guyana.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has been locked out of their premises since earlier this month with the government of Guyana appointing an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to manage the affairs of the sport in that country.

The decision has not gone down well with the GCB or WICB who have both expressed their dissatisfaction with the usurping of the GCB’s authority and have rejected all decisions made by the IMC.

read more at Trinidad &Tobago Newsday

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The end of Shiv Chanderpaul?

Wed, Jan 25, '12

 

Shiv Chanderpaul CaribbeanCricket.com news analysis

The West Indies Cricket Board brought an inglorious end to the One Day International and Twenty20 career of legendary batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Now politics and the quest for power form a lethal combination which threatens to bring to a closure the Test career of Guyana’s finest modern batsman.

Cricket in Guyana is hurtling down a fatal precipice and the madness threatens to claim Shiv as its first and most notable victim.

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Pink balls are back, regional 4-dayer under lights

Wed, Jan 25, '12

 

Media Watch

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced that some of the Regional Four Day Cricket Tournament matches will be played under lights and that pink balls will be used in these matches.

The pink balls were introduced in 2010 in the first four-day match under lights between Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana here at Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds (SVRCG).

read more at ANTIGUA OBSERVER

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Guyana cricket faces darkest hour

Tue, Jan 24, '12

 

Guyana
Cricket in Guyana, beleaguered as it already is, is almost certain to face its darkest hour in the next few weeks as the off field crisis continues to intensify. Today the Guyana Cricket Board announced a 31 member provisional squad for the WICB Regional 4 Day Tournament while the Government of Guyana’s Interim Management Committee headed by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd announced a 30 member squad of its own.

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