West Indies Cricket Fans Forum

  OPINION: Money and self-interest are the guiding principles of those who run our wonderful game, not what is best for cricket. Many English counties are on the breadline or in serious debt like Yorkshire. They are trying to survive hand to mouth every year, so whenever the 18 county chairmen meet to discuss English cricket and its

The West Indies have fielded an understrength team in all formats of the game, except T20 Internationals in the past few years. The situation is progressively getting worse, and in their most recent series against New Zealand, they were even unable to field a full strength, T20 team. This dire situation is the result of several factors including th

Guyana Government must act to end local impasse THE West Indies have just completed yet another disappointing overseas tour—this time the team failed to win a single game across the three formats they played in New Zealand. This must surely go down as one of the most depressing campaigns by a West Indies team, even in an era of sub-standard perform

As the West Indies cricketers slip out of New Zealand from their Australasian nightmare, not only Cricket West Indies (CWI) but mainly the players themselves have to do much soul-searching. Coach of the beleaguered side Stuart Law has already made that call for great introspection. For CWI it might also be time to take a number of serious remedial

Dr. Rudi Webster TOO often we in the Caribbean believe that we are not good enough; something is not working and needs to be fixed; something is missing; and something special needs to be added to make us worthwhile. The key to our success already lies inside us but these limiting beliefs hide it and conceal the wealth within. The following story i

THE West Indies cricket team has just wrapped up another test series and predictably was badly beaten by a New Zealand team that could hardly be described as top flight. In the first test our boys were bounced out in the first innings by Neil Wagner; and although there was some resistance in the second innings, we invariably collapsed to hand the K

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the unity of Caricom countries is under threat from the issue of the state of West Indies cricket.Rowley believes that the issue of the administration of West Indies cricket under the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), which was incorporated as Cricket West Indies (CWI) last year, is fracturing support among Caric

It could be argued that with the West Indies ranked eighth in the ICC Test match rankings, and hosts New Zealand fourth, their recent two-Test series was always going to be a no-contest. In fact, though, West Indies arrived in New Zealand last month with high hopes of continuing the improvements shown over the last year against higher-ranked teams

Since the first test of the Ashes has been well and truly put to bed, and the second test from Adelaide commences later this evening (an awkward 9:30 pm start time for me), it’s probably time to organize my thoughts and discuss Australia’s victory at the Gabba a week or so ago. As you know, if you’ve read the blog before, I’ve been looking forward

"I wouldn’t go with the same team. I’d make a change, I wouldn’t play Ball in the next Test match, absolutely no chance. "Mason Crane I’d play. I know it is under lights but it gives that variation of a legspin bowler, one spinning away, one spinning in. Moeen Ali has an issue with his finger, do you want Joe Root bowling all your overs? You’ve got