1st Test: West Indies v England at North Sound

Same year as Test debut :

During a 1988 tour match against Gloucester on his debut tour of England, he was struck on the head by a ball from :

from David Lawrence in bad light at  Bristol .

His heart stopped and he required emergency surgery at Frenchay Hospital from which he recovered fully.

He remains in close contact with the surgeon who saved his life, Nigel Rawlinson.

Good Luck to Phil  8)

What ever happen to his nephew, Lendl Simmons ?

http://www.windiescricket.com/news/sir-c...ch-simmons

St John's, Antigua - Former fast bowler and bowling consultant for the West Indies cricket team, Sir Curtly Ambrose,

believes that former teammate and new coach of the regional squad, Phil Simmons,

is presently the best man for the job.

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The problem that I have found over the years with the English commentators is that they are NOT close to WI cricket so they really do not know the players.

Botham mentions Sammy who was never a great test match performer for the WI. Gayle has also been in and out the side in the last few years.

They keep focusing on the ones they know in the IPL and those folks have by and large NOT played test cricket regularly
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Exactly,second that.!!
This guy puts up his limelight on a fe from the IPl and other shorter format players.
Lets not do the word talk like this crazy fella,let us show him the real mettle of windies cricket.

Who is this shai fella.?
Haven't heard of him before.Google just says he is uncapped and nothing more on him.
His stats too ain't great..how did he get a look in.?

Shai Hope has been pretty impressive in his last 7 First Class matches - 604 runs in 12 innings at an average of 54.90. Four fifties, two centuries and a high score of 211.

Quote:This is turning out to be true romance.....

Sometimes he private messages me and tells me I look pretty.

Quote:I realize people consider Darren Bravo the very best WI batsman however with him opting out of NZ and SA and no red ball cricket behind him coming in in front of Leon Johnson who applied himself well in SA

I think the selectors are punishing him for his bad domestic season. He captained the winning team, but rarely made more than 30 an innings.

Antigua, April 12: Ahead of their first Test against the West Indies on Monday, England's pacer Stuart Broad said he is backing skipper Alastair Cook to make as many runs as possible as he is looking refreshed and confident.

"I'd back him to score big runs in this series, he looks refreshed and ready to go," Broad was quoted as saying by dailymail.co.uk.

"He seems in a really happy place and excited to be back around the group. He'd be the last person to make too much of a fuss about a hundred in a warm-up game," he said.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua -- The government of Antigua and Barbuda has declared a half-day public holiday on Monday, when the West Indies will battle England in the first of the four Test matches to be played in the Caribbean.

The venue will be the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, and it will be the first Test match to be played in Antigua in seven years. Everyone is encouraged to attend and to participate in the fun and excitement. Both public and private employees have been granted the half-day off in order to attend.

Attorney General Steadroy ‘Cutie’ Benjamin, who chaired the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, indicated that he had been in touch with Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who is in Jamaica to attend a summit with the US president. The prime minister asked that Cabinet give favourable consideration to the half-day-off request. Unanimously, the Cabinet agreed to make Monday, April 13, 2015, a half-holiday in order to enable attendance by government and private-sector employees on Monday afternoon.

Minister of sports, culture and festivals, Chet Greene, reminded the Cabinet that after the cricket is ended on each night, there will be music and entertainment that will cause the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium to remain throbbing late into the night. He invited everyone to come join in the fun and excitement of cricket, and the after-cricket party at the Stadium.

Food vendors will be out in abundance, the Cabinet was told. Buses will also transport vacationing students from the various communities around Antigua to the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Prices to enter will be nominal because of the monetary and other support by the government to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). All senior citizens who are 65 years and older will enter the Stadium without charge.

All the support required, in order to make certain that Antigua continues to be regarded as the most exciting and wonderful place in the world to view Test Cricket, has been put in place, Greene assured the Cabinet.

“It will be exciting, engaging and electrifying,” Greene said of the coming test match and venue.

The West Indies Team is usually buoyed by the supporting audience, despite the fact that thousands of Britons will be flying into Antigua, staying at many hotels and other properties, beginning this week, in order to watch the England team battle the West Indies.

WHO THE FUCK SCHEDULES A TEST MATCH FROM MONDAY TO FRIDAY. LITERALLY THE WORST POSSIBLE COMBINATION OF DAYS OUT OF ALL POSSIBILITIES. OMFG HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID. THE INCOMPETENCE OF THE WICB DRIVES ME INSANE.