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Post by vb on Feb 4, 2019 1:12:28 GMT
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Post by vb on Feb 4, 2019 1:15:06 GMT
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Post by vb on Feb 4, 2019 1:17:00 GMT
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Post by vb on Feb 4, 2019 1:20:03 GMT
Holder banned for Third TestEngland in West Indies: Jason Holder banned for third Test www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/47110267 Jason Holder celebrates West Indies' series win in Antigua Jason Holder is ranked the best all-rounder in Test cricket by the International Cricket Council West Indies captain Jason Holder will miss the final Test against England after being banned by the International Cricket Council. The all-rounder, 27, will serve a one-match suspension for his side's slow over-rate in the 10-wicket win in the second Test in Antigua. The third Test in St Lucia starts on Saturday, with West Indies 2-0 up in the series. Holder is the leading run-scorer with 229 at an average of 114.50. Holder dedicates West Indies win to Joseph after mother's death England desperately frustrated - Root England batsmen must learn to adapt - Cook He has been a central figure in West Indies securing a first series win over England since 2009, and their first over any side other than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe since 2012. Holder was named man of the match after making an unbeaten 202 and taking two wickets in the 381-run win in the first Test, a performance which took him to the top of the ICC rankings for Test all-rounders. Holder claimed 4-32 to help bowl England out for 132 in Antigua on Saturday before West Indies sealed victory with two days to spare. He missed the second Test in New Zealand in December 2017 after being banned for a slow over-rate offence. Dismal England fall to series defeat in West Indies West Indies v England - fixtures & results Analysis BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew There will be people who look at this and say it's petty, that it's a great shame that Jason Holder can't arrive in St Lucia with his team 2-0 up and try and beat England again. But the fact is the West Indies over-rate in the Antigua Test match was very slow indeed. If they let Holder off this time and set some sort of precedent, what happens the next time the ICC tries to punish a captain?
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Post by vb on Feb 4, 2019 1:52:06 GMT
Alzarri Joseph stands tall for West Indies despite death of his mother
The young fast bowler put in a remarkable show against England on a day of the darkest personal news imaginable
Alzarri Joseph opted to play despite news of his mother’s death, and his wickets helped West Indies to another thumping victory over England. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images via ReutersFour golf buggies buzzed around the boundary rope during lunch on a memorable third day in Antigua, their passengers waving to all in the ground and beaming with well-earned smiles. Last week in Barbados a similar motorcade celebrated a host of cricket legends from the island, including Sir Garfield Sobers, but here it was the relatively lesser-known quartet of Elvira Bell, Christal Clashing, Kevinia Francis and Samara Emmanuel that was being presented to the spectators. West Indies thrash hapless England by 10 wickets to seal series victory Read more These four Antiguan women – known as The Island Girls – arrived in English Harbour on Monday just before the West Indies and England teams. They had not come by air, however, but sea, having rowed for 47 days, eight hours and 25 minutes across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands as part of the Talisker Challenge. They are reportedly the first all-black female team to cross any ocean in this manner and have raised thousands of dollars for The Cottage of Hope, a charity that offers refuge for abandoned or abused girls on the island. After their arduous 3,000-mile journey they were met at Nelson’s Dockyard by a large crowd that included Viv Richards himself. Five days later, at the ground that bears his name, they were a source of local pride swelled further by the efforts of the solitary Antiguan in this victorious West Indies side. Advertisement Alzarri Joseph is just 22 years old and his first Test match at his home ground had begun like a fairytale. This wiry fast bowler’s opening delivery on day one had brought the wicket of Joe Denly, toe-ending a wide one in maddening fashion, before returning the prized scalp of Joe Root to a brutish delivery that took off from this capricious surface. But before play on day three news filtered through that Joseph’s mother, Sharon, had passed away that morning following a long battle with illness. A young man who had been riding the crest of a wave as part of an impressive four-pronged West Indies pace attack was now dealing with a life-changing event in the harsh glare of Test cricket. Few would be expected to report to work on such a day. And yet as the West Indies players rallied round their tearful teammate in the pre-match huddle, it soon became clear that he intended to carry on. Both sides donned black armbands and as Joseph emerged at No 10, before battling it out for seven precious runs as the home side set up their lead of 119, a warm standing ovation greeted him. What later followed with the ball had an increased local presence positively in raptures. Amid a hostile seven-over spell from second change that saw him pass 90mph on the speed gun, Joseph repeated his victims from the first innings, teasing an inside edge behind from Root and detonating the stumps of Denly when the debutant offered no shot. Sign up to the Spin – our weekly cricket round-up Read more Neither wicket was celebrated exuberantly – indeed Joseph didn’t appeal for that of Root, which required a review – but he was swarmed by his colleagues. Team spirit is not always an illusion only glimpsed in victory; this West Indies side had it before their incredible series. Taking the field in such trying circumstances is not unprecedented. Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan recently played for Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League 24 hours after losing his father on New Year’s Eve. In 2002 the England team were midway through a Test at New Zealand’s Basin Reserve when they learned the much-loved Ben Hollioake had been killed in a car crash in Perth. An 18-year-old Virat Kohli made an unbeaten 90 in a Ranji Trophy match for Delhi in 2006, having lost his father to a stroke the night before. In 1953 New Zealand’s Bob Blair surprised all at the Wanderers when emerging at No 11 to try and save a Test against South Africa still fresh from the news that his fiancee was among the 151 dead in the Tangiwai rail disaster days earlier. It never ceases to amaze how sportspeople can still perform at times of such grief. Judging from a photograph of the pair embracing at the VC Bird Airport in 2016, Joseph’s bond with his mother was strong. He had just returned home as part of the West Indies side that had won the Under-19s World Cup and Sharon’s delight with her son, who shot to prominence in the tournament with 13 wickets, could scarcely be contained. Her heart would doubtless have swelled at her boy taking the field on Saturday too, never mind the feats that followed. Needless to say, they make them tough in these parts. As 2019 begins… … we’re asking readers to make a new year contribution in support of The Guardian’s independent journalism. More people are reading and supporting our independent, investigative reporting than ever before. And unlike many news organisations, we have chosen an approach that allows us to keep our journalism accessible to all, regardless of where they live or what they can afford. But this is only possible thanks to voluntary support from our readers – something we have to maintain and build on for every year to come. At the Guardian, we believe that access to trusted information is a right that should be available to all, without restriction – independent reporting, distributed fairly, accessible to everyone. 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Post by Guest on Feb 4, 2019 14:37:47 GMT
The West Indies are plotting their way back to the top – and Jason Holder knows how to get there
The West Indies haven’t been ranked in the world’s top six since 2000, when Holder was eight years old, and possibly even under 6ft tall. Nonetheless, Holder has refused to fetter the ambitions of his side
Jonathan Liew Antigua @jonathanliew Jason Holder believes his side can return to the summit of Test cricket ( Getty )
The bottle of champagne was almost empty. There were, perhaps, a couple of inches left in it. It hung absentmindedly from one of Jason Holder’s enormous arms, the liquid legacy of a triumph that has shaken the world of cricket. But once the lap of honour had been completed, once the festivities had been dispensed with, it was down to business. The West Indies are plotting their way back to the top table of world cricket. And Holder, their captain, thinks he knows how they can get there. Beating England with a game to spare, in less than seven days’ cricket, is a monumental achievement. It’s their first win in a series of three or more Tests since 2009. If they can complete an astonishing whitewash in St Lucia next week, it’ll be the first time they’ve won more than two Tests in a series since 1998. But it won’t move them any higher than No 8 in the world rankings. It will take more than one outstanding series to undo a generation of neglect. The West Indies haven’t been ranked in the world’s top six since 2000, when Holder was eight years old, and possibly even under 6ft tall. Nonetheless, he refused to fetter the ambitions of his side. “All teams aspire to be No 1,” he insisted. “You don’t play Test cricket to be No 2 or No 3. I think we’ve got what it takes to be No 1. We’re still a long way off. But as the guys continue to mature and develop, we’ll definitely be a No 1 side in years to come.” For a captain more given to the measured understatement than the grandiose declaration, this was some claim. And though you could be forgiven for wondering if it was the fizz talking, during this series we have already seen enough to harbour genuine optimism over a group of players who, after a number of early foibles, are finally beginning to come of age. “We’re building something quite nicely here,” Holder said. Antigua’s Rec remains a dusty time capsule of cricketing history This series triumph was built on the back of their four-man pace attack, and though Kemar Roach and Shannon Gabriel are both the wrong side of 30, the core of this side could be around for a good while yet. Kraigg Brathwaite is 26. John Campbell and Shai Hope are 25. Shimron Hetmyer and Alzarri Joseph are 22. Holder himself is 27, and after a turbulent three years as captain – a period that has seen numerous injuries, fluctuations in form, defections to Twenty20, political strife, failure to qualify for the Champions Trophy and a 2-0 defeat to Bangladesh – is beginning to mature into one of the great leaders of the modern game. Beneath them, you have the exciting fast bowler Oshane Thomas, all-rounder Keemo Paul, left-arm spinner Khary Pierre, batsmen Keacy Carty and Shamarh Brooks. For many of the next generation, the main challenge will be not only getting them up to Test class but keeping them out of the clutches of T20. “The love for Test cricket is there among the young players,” Holder insisted. “We’ve got a lot of young players who are aspiring to play Test cricket. It is my favourite format of the game, and if you ask a few of the other guys in the dressing-room they would say the same thing.” Big questions remain in the medium to long term. Can the West Indies win on different surfaces, in different conditions, playing different kinds of cricket? (Can anyone, come to that?) Can they maintain their trajectory and talent development without disintegrating into political in-fighting, boardroom mismanagement or financial instability as with many West Indies sides of the past? Can they raise their game to this level against teams who are not England (a series which, Holder admitted was “arguably our biggest”)? Jason Holder makes the most of West Indies’ celebrations (Getty) These are the questions that will determine whether the West Indies can truly thrive in the longest format, and whether Holder’s aspiration to be No 1 in the world is anything more than a fanciful chimera. India visit next in July, followed by one-off Tests against Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. Win those three assignments, and we really will be talking about serious contenders. But for now, there’s a victory to be toasted. After all, there’s no point in toiling in the name of triumph unless you can enjoy it properly. “Definitely the high point for me as captain of the West Indies,” said Holder, the pride oozing out of him. “Hopefully this is the start of new things.”
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Post by vb on Feb 8, 2019 2:52:42 GMT
West Indies roll back years to make England look like Calypso Cricketers
Andy Bull Andy Bull The hosts have schooled England in the disciplines of Test cricket and made the tourists look like the slapdash outfit West Indies were once so wrongly caricatured as
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Darren Bravo batted in Antigua with a resilience and application that a sloppy England could not match. Photograph: Ricardo Mazalán/AP Long before he won the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, John Agard used to dream he would be a cricket commentator. On Desert Island Discs he told Kirsty Young that when he was growing up in Georgetown he would practise John Arlott’s best lines “the way a present day teenager might stand in front of the mirror and pretend to be a rapper, say”. Agard had no plan to grow up a poet then but realised later that this was when “it all came together”. In 1993, not long after Arlott died, Agard published Prospero Caliban Cricket, which he dedicated to CLR James. Prospero batting
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and is cricket is cricket in yuh rickaticks
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In the poem Agard has the West Indian quick as Caliban, “arcing de ball like an unpredictable whip” and the English batsman as Prospero “invoking the name of WG Grace to preserve him from a bouncer to the face”. And always that refrain “and is cricket is cricket in yuh rickaticks / but from afar it look like politics”. The story of West Indian cricket is such a large part of the story of the West Indian people the two cannot be split apart. So the politics are always there, just beneath the surface, especially when they play England. ‘I think cricket still means something to the global Caribbean community’ Read more Clive Lloyd grew up in Georgetown too, five years ahead of Agard. “We did not want to put on black leather gloves and give clenched-fist salutes but we did want people to know that we weren’t ‘Calypso Cricketers’,” Lloyd says in his biography, Supercat. “I detest that phrase. It suggests we were slap-happy, unthinking players who simply hoped for the best. That all we were good for was a quick 40. I always found the phrase so patronising. There was a lazy way of looking at West Indies cricket in those days, and ‘Calypso Cricket’ was a big part of it.” Lloyd remembers one interview. “‘Well, Clive your team seems to win some games and lose others and that’s the way you play,’ the journalist said, and I remember thinking,” Lloyd writes, “‘Here is one man we have to educate so he is able to think again.’” It took Lloyd, Viv Richards, Malcolm Marshall and the rest of that generation years to do it. “To show the world, that we were strong, intelligent professional people,” Lloyd writes, “to show the world that we were thinkers, that we had standards, that we could stay the distance, that in adversity we would not capitulate. That we could fight.” Reputations are hard won and easily lost. Three of the best cricketers West Indies have are not playing in this series. Andre Russell is in Dhaka playing for the Dynamites in the Bangladesh Premier League. So is Kieron Pollard, and so is Sunil Narine. Russell, Pollard and Narine are all in their early 30s. Between the three of them they have played 1,037 Twenty20 games but only seven Tests. Narine was once ranked the world’s best one-day international bowler, Russell the seventh best ODI all-rounder, Pollard the 11th. They may have made it in Test cricket, or they may not, there are no guarantees their skills would cross over. The point is we, and they, will never know. Russell, Pollard and Narine were part of a generation who came through just as some of the senior players above them were turning away from Test cricket towards the T20 leagues. Dwayne Bravo played the last of his 40 Tests in 2010 when he was 27. The year before that Chris Gayle gave his infamous interview to Anna Kessel when he said he “wouldn’t be so sad” if Test cricket died out, although, unlike Bravo, he stuck at it, off and on, for three more years. Everyone talks about how Test cricket is the pinnacle of the sport, but it wasn’t for the West Indians. Not any more. Andre Russell in action for Sydney Thunder in 2016 during his busy career in the T20 leagues. He has played only one Test. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP There were a lot of good reasons why that happened. There was the money, of course. “My household needs wouldn’t be fulfilled just by playing in the West Indies team,” Russell said in 2015. But also the fact that they were so badly treated by the West Indian board, and that the set-up there felt so unprofessional compared to what they had grown used to abroad. But the upshot of it all was that West Indies, who won the World T20 in 2012 and 2016, became Test match easy-beats, derided and patronised. Colin Graves called them “mediocre”, Mark Nicholas said that they “lacked brains”, Geoffrey Boycott that they were “ordinary” and “average”. Advertisement How did Lloyd put it? “It suggests we were slap-happy, unthinking players who simply hoped for the best. That all we were good for was a quick forty.” Why my grandfather would have delighted in this Windies side Read more Now here they are, a generation on again, schooling England in the forgotten disciplines of Test cricket: restraint, resilience and self-denial, steadfast batting and straight, fast bowling. John Campbell, written off as another T20 wannabe when he got out twice in one day during the warm-up match at Cave Hill, has been grinding out opening stands with Kraigg Brathwaite. Darren Bravo, back in the team after a two-year exile, is batting the best part of six hours for 50 crucial runs and talking about wanting to play 100 Tests. It is England who look ordinary and average, slap-happy and unthinking, who, as their own coach said, lack the “guts” and “determination” they need to succeed in this format. Prospero invoking de God of snow wishing a shower of flakes would stop all play but de sky so bright with carib glow you can’t even appeal for light much less ask for snow Is cricket is cricket in yuh rickaticks but from far it look like politics
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Post by vb on Feb 17, 2019 17:06:59 GMT
England salvage some pridewww.espncricinfo.com/series/18913/report/1158064/west-indies-vs-england-3rd-test-england-tour-of-wi-2018-19England 277 and 361 for 5 dec (Root 122, Stokes 48*) beat West Indies 154 and 252 (Chase 102*, Anderson 3-27) by 232 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details England and West Indies have plenty of food for thought after a third Test won emphatically by the former and a series clinched almost equally as convincingly by the latter. Joe Root's return to form, Mark Wood's revival as a strike bowling option, and lingering uncertainty at the top of the order were England's takeaways from St Lucia, where the tourists claimed a 232-run victory inside four days for a face-saving 1-2 series scoreline. They switch their focus to the five ODIs starting next Wednesday but, in the context of a landmark year of cricket including a home World Cup and Ashes series, they will also be thinking ahead to the English summer. West Indies, meanwhile, will be boosted by their 2-1 triumph as underdogs, with some outstanding performances, including Player of the Series Kemar Roach, who took 18 wickets at 13.88 and Roston Chase, who claimed eight wickets in the first Test and scored an unbeaten century in his side's second innings in St Lucia. However, they missed suspended captain Jason Holder in the dead rubber and will welcome him back in the limited-overs series opener in Bridgetown, the scene of his unbeaten double-century that helped lead his side to victory in the first Test. They also felt the absence of impressive allrounder Keemo Paul, Holder's replacement in St Lucia who broke down while fielding early on day three with a torn thigh muscle. What England had lacked in the first two Tests - in sharp contrast to West Indies - was someone to stand up with bat or ball. In the third Test they had both with Man of the Match Wood's five-wicket haul in the first innings and Root's century in the second, but they also enjoyed a stronger all-round team performance with Joe Denly, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler scoring runs and James Anderson's three wickets early in West Indies' second innings snuffing out any hopes of chasing down a hefty target of 485. Root gave his side plenty of time to bowl West Indies out, declaring their second innings at 361 for 5 on the fall of his own wicket. He was out for 122 within the first half-hour of play to an excellent diving catch by Shimron Hetmyer off the bowling of Shannon Gabriel, with whom Root had exchanged words the previous evening over comments that led Gabriel to be charged under the ICC Code of Conduct. The declaration left Stokes stranded two runs shy of his second half-century for the match and he had looked set to build an impressive knock with some typical shot-making flair after play resumed. Anderson claimed 3 for 5 in the space of 3.1 overs, while Wood chimed in with one to send West Indies to lunch at 35 for 4 in their second innings. Moeen Ali contributed well with the ball and in the field, claiming three wickets and taking a spectacular catch. Anderson had Moeen to thank for his first wicket, claimed with the third ball of the innings when John Campbell drove and Moeen pulled the ball down with a sensational one-handed grab over his shoulder at gully. Anderson, who went wicketless in the first innings, struck again in his next over when he forced Kraigg Brathwaite to play and had him caught by Stokes at second slip. Darren Bravo, missing from the field for the entire third day as he sought treatment on a finger injury suffered earlier in the match, survived an lbw review off Anderson, and then Stuart Broad saw Shai Hope dropped by Buttler in the slips. But Anderson had Bravo out a short time later, edging to Root at first slip and Hope went cheaply when Wood was brought into the attack, caught by a back-pedalling Broad at point. Potential danger man Hetmyer was run out shortly after lunch, attempting a third run with Chase when Denly fired the ball in from near the boundary and Jonny Bairstow dislodged the bails with the batsman well out of his ground. Chase went on to post some resistance, with a gutsy 102 not out but he ran out of batting partners. Dropped catches were rife, but Rory Burns' contribution to the blooper reel was a sitter, simple, head-height and with plenty of time, Roach's chip off Moeen slipped through Burns' hands at at mid-off. Roach's cameo to an end on 29 when he drove Moeen to cover, where Wood took the catch. Alzarri Joseph swung the bat for some late entertainment value, smacking three sixes on his way to a quick-fire 34 off 30 balls before he pushed too far and spooned Moeen to Anderson at mid-on. With Chase not out 78, that brought Gabriel to the crease but his dismissal to a simple caught behind off Stokes when Chase was on 98 meant a lame Paul returned to action for the first time in the best part of two days. Unable to run, Paul saw Chase bring up his century with a four and then smacked three of his own before he was caught and bowled by Stokes to end the match.
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