Cricket News

The Busta Cup cricket match between Jamaica and Barbados enters its fourth and final day at Sabina Park today and after three days of firing away at each other in a contest billed as a showdown, the home team is in sight of victory

Karachi, Jan 22: Pakistan qualified for the semi-finals of the Youth World Cup being played in Colombo when on Saturday they defeated the West Indies by three wickets to finish unbeaten in Super League Group 1

Pakistan defeated the West Indies by three wickets after a closely fought game in the U-19 World Cup Super League match at the Colombo Cricket Club on Saturday

West Indies scored a comfortable 56-run victory over New Zealand in the Super League of the Under-19 World Cup at the Nondescripts Cricket Club ground in Colombo on Thursday

The West Indies beat New Zealand by 56 runs at the NCC ground in Colombo

A six off the fifth ball of the penultimate over by T Welsford off M Samuels gave Australia a four wicket victory over West Indies at the SSC ground in Colombo

The West Indies beat The Americas by 142 runs at the Police ground in Colombo on Saturday

In Colombo today we caught a glimpse of the West Indies future - it was fast and hostile

Colombo - The youth team brought a welcome shaft of light into the general gloom presently enveloping West Indies cricket with an emphatic victory in their opening match of the third Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka yesterday

Christchurch - The West Indian cricketers made a gallant attempt to win the last match of their tour of New Zealand before 15 000 spectators at Jade Stadium on Tuesday (Monday night Caribbean time)

The West Indian fast bowler, Jermaine Lawson, claimed the first hat trick in the history of the U19 World Cup in his teams win over Zimbabwe

Wellington - The West Indian cricketers must feel rather like some heavyweight boxing champion's punch-bag

Sometimes, it is very difficult to write about cricket in general and especially a particular cricket game

There are at least three things that were so very obvious, if one really looked, after the New Zealanders took a 2-0 lead over the West Indies in this five match series

Maybe Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain, is right

The West Indies looked like a team intent on revenge for their test series savaging in the opening match of the one-day series against New Zealand

As they seemed fated to do, West Indies lost the second Test to New Zealand by an innings and 105 runs with a day to spare at the Basin Reserve yesterday, but the West Indians had fought tenaciously, and deserved better than what appeared to be

Not even a small classic of an innings by Brian Lara and a fantastic defensive effort by Adrian Griffith could stop the West Indies sliding closer to defeat by the end of the third day of the second Test against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve

'Christmas Day in the Workhouse' could be the theme of the West Indies preparations for the second and final test beginning at the Basin Reserve, Wellington on Boxing Day

The West Indian cricketers may have sang as the rain foiled a strong New Zealand bid for victory on the fourth day of the first cricket Test at WestpacTrust Park yesterday