These two teams have been apart for barely a month but lock horns again as England’s international season makes its earliest ever start. Some players, most notably Chris Gayle, have only just made it back from the IPL as Test cricket struggles to show it still remains a top priority. This short series certainly feels [...]
Would they play they play or wouldn’t they? Until the eve of the fifth and final ODI in St Lucia, no-one could say for sure. The West Indies Cricket Board had been locked in crisis talks with the Players’ Association, with the threat looming, not only of a boycott of Friday’s fixture, but – going [...]
England are ending their Caribbean tour as they began it, beset by off-field rifts and dripping with unadulterated humiliation. Their walloping in the third ODI was quite possibly their most pathetic effort of a success-starved winter, involving as it did a total brain-freeze from batsmen and bowlers alike. Had it not been for John Dyson’s [...]
Anyone can win the One Day Cricket series between England vs West Indies. Both England and West Indies have own a match each and 3 more matches to go. Both teams will play their best to win the match and keep themselves in a comfortable situation. However, for some players, this will be a change [...]
A lot has changed for England in the five-and-a-half months since they were rolled and humiliated for 99 and deprived the riches of then-saviour, now pariah, Allen Stanford. Back in November England were playing for an unprecedented US$20 million. Now they’re seeking just pride and respect, neither of which will pay for a new car [...]
In a week when off-field events have wrenched cricket into the headlines for all the wrong reasons, England’s struggles in the Caribbean have been put into stark context. Nevertheless, they have a series to salvage and one last chance to do so, as the teams move to Trinidad for the fifth and final Test. England [...]
4th Test match cricket between England vs West Indies (Eng vs WI) is scheduled at Barbados from 26th February to 2nd March. England arrived in the Caribbean with a new captain, no coach, rumours about divisions within the squad, and no victories in any form of international cricket since September, and yet they somehow retained [...]
