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CRICKET: WORLD RECORD: Highlights! | Sarwan & Chanderpaul Star as Windies Chase 418 v Australia 2003

01/04/2021 – 12:05 am

WORLD RECORD: Run Chase Highlights! | Sarwan & Chanderpaul Star as Windies Chase 418 v Australia 2003

Comment: Sajjo Lohar Alvarez – I remember this amazing victory. When Lara got out I thought we had no chance, but then the under rated heroes Sarwan and Chanderpaul battled back ( even though McGrath tried his best to shake up Sarwan in that famous fight) and another young talent Omari Banks finished it off. WI have a knack for amazing wins – this one in a test match, 2004 champions trophy final in ODI, and 2012 & 2016 T20 WC finals in T20.

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CRICKET: West Indies Legends say: Cricket is the Glue! – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine

12/30/2020 – 12:02 am

 The captain of the West Indies Test team is more powerful that many Presidents and Prime Ministers. The West Indies is the only place on the planet where eleven players are chosen from different countries to represent a nation. This creates its own problems and also has its advantages.

The nations became the nursery for future talents. In the old days, insularity and individualism were common themes in West Indies cricket. But a smart captain was able to bring out the best in the players and to instill in them the importance of playing for country.            Continue reading →

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CRICKET: Rohan Kanhai was 85 not out on December 26. 2020

12/27/2020 – 4:01 pm

Rohan Kanhai is 85 not out

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Rohan Kanhai was born on 26 December 1935 at Plantation Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice. He was 85 this year. To mark the occasion, we are publishing two pieces by Ian McDonald and Clem Seecharan, a tribute to the mastery of this gifted Guyana and West Indies batsman.

They are taken from ‘An Abounding Joy: Essays on Sport by Ian McDonald’ (compiled, edited and annotated by Clem Seecharan), published by Hansib in the UK in 2019. Seecharan’s essay is a revised version of his response to McDonald’s piece.          Continue reading →

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Commentary: Hooper and Chanderpaul — By Dave Martins + video

11/03/2020 – 12:10 am

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“What’s your favourite Tradewinds song, and which one you feel has had the strongest reaction?” I’ve been asked questions like that often; just this week it popped up again.  On the first question, my favourite, it depends on when you ask me; some days it’s Is We Own; some days it’s Angel Wings, a song about my mother and my own life; some days it’s Copycats. On the second question, I suspect Not A Blade O’ Grass would be the answer but Honeymooning Couple is close.

It’s interesting though that only one interviewer – a very astute Guyanese lady – has ever asked me the parallel question: “Which song do you feel had the weakest response?”  The answer to that one, hands down, is Hooper and Chanderpaul, and therewith, as they say, hangs a tale.        Continue reading →
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RACISM: West Indies cricket legend Michael Holding discussing racism in the UK – VIDEOS

08/22/2020 – 12:06 am

RACISM: West Indies legend Michael Holding breaks down discussing racism in the UK

Holding recently made headlines after making an impassioned plea over racism in the UK during a rain break in the test match between England and the West Indies.

CRICKET: See Michael Holding bowling in 1976 vs England in video below.  This is an example of his devastating fast-bowling :

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CRICKET: West Indies-England Test series misses chance to honour the great Learie Constantine

07/25/2020 – 9:34 am

West Indies-England Tests will now be known as the Richards-Botham series, but it would have been an opportunity to pay tribute to a man whose biggest influence came off the field – Learie Constantine

Learie Constantine was a West Indies international in the 1930s, and went on to become a barrister and member of the House of Lords.

Learie Constantine was a West Indies international in the 1930s. He went on to become a barrister and member of the House of Lords. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

at Old Trafford. Published onFri 24 Jul 2020 – The Guardian        
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UK: Caribbean Cricket Club, Leeds: How cricket helped Windrush migrants ‘integrate’

07/20/2020 – 12:12 am

By Marc Higginson  — BBC Sport – From the section  Cricket

The Caribbean Cricket Club team after a match in Yorkshire
The Caribbean Cricket Club team after a match in Yorkshire

When Alford Gardner stepped off the Empire Windrush – a ship bringing about 500 migrants to the UK from the Caribbean – he, like his fellow passengers, was about to embark on a storied journey: one that would see him build a life for himself in a land more than 4,000 miles from home.

Jamaica, where Alford was from, and Leeds, where Alford was to settle, couldn’t have been more different in 1948.  Yet there was one thing which was central to the life of people in both places – cricket.

Within months of arriving in the UK, the country’s first Caribbean Cricket Club had been formed.           Continue reading →

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CRICKET: West Indies win First Test versus England by 4 wickets – ESPNCricinfo.com

07/12/2020 – 5:23 pm

Jason Holder hails fourth-day bowling effort to set up ‘special’ West Indies win

Jason Holder and John Campbell celebrate victory

Jason Holder  has described the fourth day of the Ageas Bowl Test as “by far the best effort” he had seen from a West Indies team during his time as captain and “one of the best” in his tenure.

West Indies took five wickets at a cost of just 30 runs at the end of a long day in the field, with Holder making the vital breakthrough in dismissing his opposite number Ben Stokes for the second time in the Test before Alzarri Joseph and Man of the Match Shannon Gabriel shared four more.

Read more: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29452445/jason-holder-hails-fourth-day-bowling-effort-set-special-west-indies-win

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Vancouver’s Favourite Umpire – Abe Mortimer – by Donna Sacuta 

07/11/2020 – 12:28 am

BC Black pioneer was lumber-worker, athlete, soldier, storyteller and Hall of Famer

ABE NORTIMER  – Researched and written by Donna Sacuta 

Abe Mortimer was manager-coach of the IWA Local 1-217 baseball team in the 1940s. He may have thrown a few uncomplimentary remarks at the opposing pitcher.

On September 2, 1965,

75-year old Abe Mortimer bellowed “Pla-a-a-y B-a-a-w-w-l” before an audience of more than 2,500 at Capilano Stadium in Vancouver to kick off a two-inning Old-Timers’ baseball game. Abe had broken his leg in three places the previous December and was not working as many games as he used to. The Master of Ceremonies was none other than Nat Bailey whose name graces the stadium to this day. The crowd roared their approval as Abe’s famous voice echoed off the grandstands in Little Mountain Park.          Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW: CRICKET: Sonny Ramadhin: ‘In 1950 we had the three W’s – England had Len Hutton’

07/08/2020 – 4:11 am

Last survivor of West Indies’ first Test win in England 70 years ago recalls a heady day at Lord’s, a tough childhood in Trinidad and his love of English pitches

Sonny Ramadhin’s spin accounted for 11 England wickets in West Indies’ historic Test victory at Lord’s in 1950.
 Sonny Ramadhin’s spin accounted for 11 England wickets in West Indies’ historic Test victory at Lord’s in 1950. The tourists won by 326 runs. Photograph: Chris Bethell/the Guardian

As England’s last wicket fell at Lord’s in June 1950, a handful of West Indies fans spilled over the boundary rope, keen to celebrate their first Test victory at the home of their cricket-inventing colonisers.

At his home in Delph on the edge of Saddleworth Moor, Sonny Ramadhin, the last living player from that history-making West Indies side, remembers the scenes. “Quite a few of the West Indians came on to the ground and we had to run to the dressing room,” the 91-year-old says.      Continue reading →

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