Tony Cozier

Veteran writer and commentator in the Caribbean

A 'head-thing' with Windies

Another tour, another captain, another manager, another coach, same outcome

10-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

Bowl them out'

He never lost a series in his seven years as captain, and four times raised the Wisden Trophy for further West Indian safe-keeping, so Monday afternoon's scenes at the Oval would have saddened Sir Viv Richards more than most

06-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

Skerritt looking beyond the vets

Others are beseeching them to soldier on for one last hurrah but Ricky Skerritt has pointed out that the continuing discussion over whether Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose continue or not is a distraction the West Indies could do without

06-Sep-2000•Tony Cozier

Harper: WI need break

Roger Harper yesterday identified the problem that now confronts his West Indies team as the one that every coach dreads

28-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Giles in, Tufnell out of England squad

Ashley Giles, rather that the perennial Philip Tufnell, was the leftarm spinner added yesterday to England's squad for the fifth and final Test against the West Indies, starting Thursday at the Oval

28-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Four days to rebound

London - It is not exactly Mission Impossible but Jimmy Adams, Roger Harper and Jeffrey Dujon have a job immediately ahead of them so tough it has proven beyond the capacity of all those who have previously been saddled with it

27-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

'Shiv' to test hand at No. 3

After more than seven weeks unable to bat, even in the nets, Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been assigned the No

23-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

`Shiv' gets thumbs up

Leeds - After a weekend spent licking their wounds from a humbling two-day, innings defeat in the fourth Test, the West Indies get back to serious business this morning with the boost of Shivnarine Chanderpaul's return to action

21-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Thrashing no surprise

Leeds - The most alarming aspect of the West Indies' two-day capitulation in the fourth Test at Headingley was not the result itself but that it was no aberration

20-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Press rubs it in

Leeds - The British press yesterday predictably and understandably revelled in England's two-day innings victory in the fourth Test - and had a few words of condemnation for the West Indies performance as well

20-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Headingly massacre

West Indies cricket has endured an overabundance of heartwrenching humiliation in recent times but nothing has been more degrading than the shocking events here yesterday

19-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Balanced on a see-saw

Leeds: The unpredictable has become the expected and the extraordinary commonplace in this series and the first day of the fourth Test yesterday was true to type

18-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Ambrose scare

Leeds-Already denied the services of one fast bowler through injury, the West Indies had another, even more profound shock on the eve of the fourth Test yesterday

17-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Fast-bowling slowing down

London: When Curtly Ambrose takes his leave of international cricket after the final Test at the Oval early next month, the towering Antiguan will carry into his retirement one particular disappointment

16-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Windies whip Derbyshire

Inspite of curious tactics that preceded their delayed second innings declaration at lunch and the enforced absence of Franklyn Rose, the West Indies completed an emphatic victory by 224 runs with 5.4 overs to spare over Derbyshire yesterday

12-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

All over again

The script was all too depressingly familiar

05-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Lord's revisited

Manchester-The spectre of Lord's hung as ominously over Old Trafford for much of the first day of the third Test yesterday as the dark, rain clouds that caused a delayed start, three interruptions and the loss of 45 of the 90 allocated overs

04-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Old warriors to face off

Being the man he is, and with respect to fellow professionals, Courtney Walsh will pass on quiet, but heartfelt, congratulations

03-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Windies spin shy

Manchester: Typically conservative, the West Indies have dismissed sound evidence, both first-hand and informed second-hand, and made only one enforced change to their team for the third Test against England starting here this morning

03-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

Windies outlook grim

Manchester - After five days of welcome warmth and sunshine, the weather for which this city is infamous ' grey and wet ' greeted the West Indies in Manchester yesterday

01-Aug-2000•Tony Cozier

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