Tony Cozier

Veteran writer and commentator in the Caribbean

WIPA v weaklings

The impasse between the Guyana Cricket Board and the West Indies Players' Association days before the Champions League served as a repeat of the crisis involving Trinidad and Tobago last year

15-Aug-2010•Tony Cozier

Guyana have a tough act to follow

Fitness, fielding and simple cricket sense will be key if Guyana are to match T&T's fairytale performance from last year in the Champions League

08-Aug-2010•Tony Cozier

Farewell to a cricket icon

We had hoped and prayed for the best but we feared the worst

18-Jul-2010•Tony Cozier

The forgotten series

The ongoing Test series between West Indies and South Africa has been overshadowed by the football World Cup and blighted by uncompetitive cricket

27-Jun-2010•Tony Cozier

End of the line for Chris Gayle

The time has come for the selectors to seek someone else to try to lift players out of their insecurity

20-Jun-2010•Tony Cozier

West Indies gave up too easily

It is now impossible to see the West Indies recovering the spirit and confidence needed to challenge these South Africans in the remaining two ODIs and three Tests

30-May-2010•Tony Cozier

The pitch is the problem

The slow pitches in the Caribbean is high on the list of reasons for the gradual demise of West Indian fast bowling and of batting standards

14-Mar-2010•Tony Cozier

Can't buy me sense

While Twenty20 riches can buy diamond earrings, gold chains, designer watches and lifelong financial security for West Indies' players, they can't guarantee basic cricketing sense

07-Mar-2010•Tony Cozier

A blessing that it's all over

It was plain from the start of the ODI series that, for some reason, West Indies' spirit of the Tests had evaporated in the interim. It reflected a general problem of attitude - the one common factor in their desperate decline of the past 15 years or so

21-Feb-2010•Tony Cozier

West Indies cricket must nurture its children

While all the other ICC Full Members have long since established national and other academies, the WICB and its affiliates are yet to get the promised regional academy and its allied feeders going

31-Jan-2010•Tony Cozier

Test cricket strikes again

For all the pulsating, crowd-pleasing action they generate, fluctations in Test matches are beyond one-innings matches that remain limited in more than just the number of overs available

10-Jan-2010•Tony Cozier

Rays of hope in a decade of decline

Tony Cozier recounts the memorable moments and phases in West Indies cricket during a decade of struggles

03-Jan-2010•Tony Cozier

Mixed reactions to first-class changes

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is seemingly intent on extending the festive season well into the new year in its annual first-class tournament. Some don't share the vibes

28-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

West Indies encourage optimism

Doubters certainly remain, but West Indies' spirited transformation has encouraged optimism everywhere for the resurgence of their cricket

23-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

West Indies' positive energy

The difference between the West Indies' performance in Brisbane and those in Adelaide and Perth was surely not by coincidence

20-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

Unfair treatment for Benn

Chris Broad needs to explain why he chose to hand Benn a more stringent penalty under the code of conduct, than Australians Haddin and Johnson

20-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

From despair to euphoria

From the beginning in Adelaide, the energy was all positive, everyone in the West Indies camp was up for the fight

13-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

Umpire review system not working

There have been too many contradictions between what the UDRS was implemented for and what it often achieves;more will inevitably follow

06-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

Undeserved abuse for West Indies

The abuse and scorn heaped in the Australian press following the Brisbane Test was uncalled for; much of it was simply beyond the pale

02-Dec-2009•Tony Cozier

A delightful debut

To those in his native Trinidad, who always regarded Adrian Barath's advance into the West Indies Test team as a matter of when, rather than if, the opener's delightful debut hundred would not have been surprising

29-Nov-2009•Tony Cozier

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