Tony Cozier

Veteran writer and commentator in the Caribbean

Lara is Back!

Adelaide-Brian Lara duly, and at last, delivered the performance here yesterday that a series rapidly deteriorating into boring inequality desperately needed

16-Dec-2000•Tony Cozier

Cozier down under: Lame of the game

Hobart-Brian Lara just can't seem to shake the hamstring strain he sustained during the One-Day Internationals in England last July-five months ago

10-Dec-2000•Tony Cozier

Culture of Champions

Perth-Australia's record-breaking 12th consecutive Test victory in the second Test against the West Indies has been duly hailed as the phenomenal achievement it is

06-Dec-2000•Tony Cozier

Critical test for West Indies

The West Indies start a Test match here tomorrow (tonight Caribbean time) critical to the continuing public interest in the present series against Australia and to their long-term viability as attractive opponents

30-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

WI team lacking self-confidence

Melbourne - Jimmy Adams and Roger Harper are both agreed on the main reason for the West Indies team's continuing descent towards the bottom rung of world cricket

21-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

Victoria slam WI bowlers

Melbourne - Kim Hughes has long since announced that he would put his house on Australia obliterating the West Indies 5-0 in the forthcoming series and nothing that has happened in the lead up to the first Test in Brisbane on Thursday suggests the

19-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

Walsh back into pace of game

Retirement isn't a word that yet figures in Courtney Walsh's vocabulary

09-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

First strike for WI newcomers

The West Indies have thrown their new players into the deep end for their first four-day match oftheir Australian tour against Western Australia, starting at the WACA ground in Perth today

09-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

Lara the target!

The West Indies cricketers opened their tour of Australia in Perth yesterday already written off, ridiculed and accused by the Australian media of weakness in dealing with match-fixing charges against star batsman Brian Lara

08-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

Innocent until proven guilty

Once Hansie Cronje phoned up Ali Bacher in the middle of the night back in April to admit to charges by the Indian police that he had taken bookmakers' money to fiddle matches, no cricketer, and no cricket match, would ever again be above suspicion

05-Nov-2000•Tony Cozier

Cozier on cricket: BCA moves for the better

For the better part of 100 years, the format for club cricket in Barbados has, by and large, remained unchanged

29-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

Windies shake-up

The West Indies fast bowling staff, heavily criticised for its lack of support of Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose during the summer series in England, has been drastically overhauled for the imminent Test tour of Australia

18-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

South Africa looking to recruit WI talent

Nairobi: South African provincial teams are eager to contract West Indians who played against the South Africa "A" team on their recent tour of the Caribbean for their 2000-2001 season

09-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

Adams: WI must stop overseas rut

Nairobi-Jimmy Adams believes the West Indies must look beyond the results on their forthcoming tour of Australia and first try to establish a level of consistency overseas

08-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

Windies trounced

Nairobi - First, the bad news from Nairobi, immediately adding the Kenyan capital to a long list that has encompassed most of the cricketing globe over the past few years

03-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

Dictatorship by whatever name

In all the heated preamble to last May's presidential election of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Chetram Singh, himself no less than president of the Guyana Board, used the word 'dictatorship' in reference to the way things were being run

01-Oct-2000•Tony Cozier

Brickbat for WICB

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have taken it as a done deal and already named their team

20-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

Brits after Busta

They have already lost the Wisden Trophy and West Indian teams might have to fight next season to keep the Busta Cup from falling into English hands

19-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

Follow heart, Courtney

To have heard Courtney Walsh speak on Tuesday night at the dinner in his honour at the Sherbourne Centre was to appreciate the uncertainty over his future that is troubling him

17-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

WI going with four new caps

For a variety of reasons, only five of the 17 players involved in the recent unsatisfactory tour of England have been included in the West Indies 14, named yesterday for the ICC knockout tournament in Nairobi, Kenya, next month

13-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

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