Cricket News

With the scourge of the dreaded HIV/AIDS epidemic ever present, the Barbados cricket team has again embarked on an awareness campaign for the upcoming regional first-class season

COME February 9 - Cape Town, South Africa - the West Indies will be ready

Former Guyana and West Indies spin bowling legend Lance Gibbs has been contracted by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to be the technical advisor at a five-day camp for orthodox spin bowlers (sometimes called finger spinners) in Antigua, starting

A pair of day/night matches at the new, floodlit Airport Cricket Ground on January 23 and 26 will be a feature of the two-week preparatory camp for the West Indies World Cup cricket squad

Home advantage could work in Barbados' favour during this year's regional first-class cricket competition and coach Hendy Springer is hoping to make the most of it

Cricket legend Sir Everton Weekes believes the West Indies have the players to go all the way in the upcoming World Cup in South Africa

DARREN POWELL is the "missing" man

Former Guyana and West Indies spin bowling legend, Lance Gibbs, has been contracted by the West Indies Cricket Board to be the technical advisor at a five-day camp for orthodox spin bowlers (sometimes called finger spinners) in the Caribbean,

PORT-OF-SPAIN - Star batsman Brian Lara returns to competitive cricket tomorrow when he turns out for North team against the South in the annual Pizza Hut Gerry Gomez Memorial North/South Classic at Queen's Park Oval

FLOODLIGHTS, to facilitate the playing of One-Day Internationals and the hosting of other events at night, will be a part of proposals in the expansion and redevelopment of Kensington Oval ahead of the 2007 World Cup

THE SELECTORS WERE heavily criticised for retaining a couple of established players in Barbados' squad for this year's regional first-class cricket championship, but chairman Richard "Prof" Edwards says the best combination was selected

West Indies senior selectors want Brian Lara and Mervyn Dillon to play in the annual Gerry Gomez North-South Cricket Classic, scheduled for the Queen's Park from January 9 to 12, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday

The islands of St Croix and St Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands will host matches in the West Indies first-class cricket championship for the first time

Signs of progress were tempered by the same old inconsistencies for the West Indies in 2002

A report that fast bowler Nixon McLean has declined his selection for the forthcoming World Cup was yesterday dismissed by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Reverend Wes Hall as "an erroneous rumour"

West Indies selectors have preferred the promise of the future rather than the experience of the past in the five players they named yesterday as back-ups for their already chosen World Cup squad of 15

The uncapped pair of opening batsman Devon Smith and wicketkeeper Keith Hibbert have been named among a group of five players who will train with the West Indies team at their 2003 World Cup preparatory camp in Antigua, starting January 12.

Brian Lara was included in the West Indies' World Cup 15 only after he was given the medical all-clear by a London specialist last week following three months' recuperation from the illness that struck him down during the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri

Talented Barbadian all-rounder Ryan Hurley has the ability to play cricket for the West Indies, says former Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies off-spinner Rangy Nanan

West Indies all-rounder Vasbert Drakes isn't about to jump the gun