Sunday, December 05, 2010
Sammy To Lead Windies In The Shorter Form Of The Game Also
by Dexter Theodore
Darren Sammy has been appointed captain of the West Indies cricket team for the 5 ODI's and the Twenty20 match as the Sri Lanka tour continues next week.
Darren's first test series ended in an honourable draw after persistent rains ruined all of the 3 test matches played during the first leg of the tour.
Sammy said to ESPNcricinfo.com: "... there were a lot of positives but there is still a lot of room for improvements. I am learning to do my job efficiently and I would like to see personal improvements."
The ODI squad is Darren Sammy (capt), Adrian Barath, Carlton Baugh (wk), Sulieman Benn, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kirk Edwards, Chris Gayle, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, and Devon Smith.
Darren Sammy has been appointed captain of the West Indies cricket team for the 5 ODI's and the Twenty20 match as the Sri Lanka tour continues next week.
Darren's first test series ended in an honourable draw after persistent rains ruined all of the 3 test matches played during the first leg of the tour.
Sammy said to ESPNcricinfo.com: "... there were a lot of positives but there is still a lot of room for improvements. I am learning to do my job efficiently and I would like to see personal improvements."
The ODI squad is Darren Sammy (capt), Adrian Barath, Carlton Baugh (wk), Sulieman Benn, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Kirk Edwards, Chris Gayle, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, and Devon Smith.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Ashes Series Under Way
by Dexter Theodore
England appears to be recovering from a nervous start in the 2010 Ashes series down under which saw them lose their captain Strauss for a duck to the third ball of the day.
Cooke, batting doggedly, made it through to lunch but Trott, who replaced Strauss, after playing some attacking legside shots was bowled by a beauty from Watson, that drew him forward and nipped through between bat and pad.
Pietersen is presently 29 not out and looking in ominous form.
England appears to be recovering from a nervous start in the 2010 Ashes series down under which saw them lose their captain Strauss for a duck to the third ball of the day.
Cooke, batting doggedly, made it through to lunch but Trott, who replaced Strauss, after playing some attacking legside shots was bowled by a beauty from Watson, that drew him forward and nipped through between bat and pad.
Pietersen is presently 29 not out and looking in ominous form.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
First Century in Stanford 20/20 Cricket
by Dexter Theodore
Saint Lucian-born John Eugene became the first man to score a hundred in the Stanford 20/20 cricket Tournament. Playing for St. Maarten against St. Vincent Eugene hammered seven fours and six glorious sixes in an impressive 46-ball knock which won him the man-of-the-match cheque of US$25,000.00.
However, it was not good enough to win the match for his team as St. Maarten eventually fell 10 runs short of the score of 168 posted by St. Vincent.
But Eugene was happy to have become only the second West Indian ever to have scored a century in 20/20 cricket. After the match he said to reporters, ""I am glad to join the company of Chris Gayle, the second West Indian to score a 20/20 hundred...I am proud of myself..."
Saint Lucian-born John Eugene became the first man to score a hundred in the Stanford 20/20 cricket Tournament. Playing for St. Maarten against St. Vincent Eugene hammered seven fours and six glorious sixes in an impressive 46-ball knock which won him the man-of-the-match cheque of US$25,000.00.
However, it was not good enough to win the match for his team as St. Maarten eventually fell 10 runs short of the score of 168 posted by St. Vincent.
But Eugene was happy to have become only the second West Indian ever to have scored a century in 20/20 cricket. After the match he said to reporters, ""I am glad to join the company of Chris Gayle, the second West Indian to score a 20/20 hundred...I am proud of myself..."
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Darren Sammy - Best Windies Cricket Debutant Since Valentine
by Dexter Theodore
Long-suffering West Indian cricket fans finally got something to cheer about today! Debutant Darren Sammy produced a memorable spell of bowling on the third afternoon at Old Trafford to finish with the remarkable figures of 21.3-2-66-7! He was the first West Indian cricketer to capture seven or more wickets on debut since Alf Valentine snatched 8 for 104 on the same ground fifty-seven years ago.
Sammy was the most economical West Indian bowler in England's first innings, but not even his most ardent supporter could have anticipated the masterly performance which was to come! It is true that he and Bravo had distinguished themselves in the field from the start of the cricket match while their colleagues struggled, but Old Trafford's rock-hard surface was not expected to offer much assistance to a medium-pacer and Windies pacer Fidel Edwards and England's Steve Harmison with their 90 mph missiles were expected to take the lime light. In fact West Indian great, Michael Holding had, on the first day of the Test match, bitterly criticized Sammy's inclusion ahead of Jamaican speedster Darren Powell and the mercurial Marlon Samuels. During the course of the match English television cricket commentator, Nasser Hussain had described Sammy as a "bits-and-pieces cricketer". Would Sammy ever smear egg on those gurus' faces!
Sammy began by taking a stupendous one-handed catch on his follow-through to dismiss England's bemused captain, Michael Vaughn for 40. But it was not until later in the afternoon that he was to really weave his magic around the mesmerised English cricketers. Sammy, whose stock delivery is an off-cutter in the corridor of uncertainty outside a right-hander's off-stump, suddenly bowled one to Bell which touched down on off stump and straightened. Bell groped uncertainly at the delivery and snicked the ball to a delighted Ramdin behind the stumps!
That brought in wicket-keeper Matthew Prior, whose batting has been a revelation for England in the cricket series. Sammy was in no mood to take any prisoners, however! He greeted the English glove-man with another beauty on off-stump which held its own as Prior felt for it and he could do no more than get a feather on it and Ramdin did the rest. Darren Sammy, the twenty-three year old from the rural community of Micoud in Saint Lucia was on a hat-trick!
In to the wicket walked Plunkett. Windies acting cricket captain Ganga crowded the new batsman who waited nervously as Sammy ran in and bowled yet another pearler which kissed the pitched just outside the off stump and again straightened. Plunkett had to offer the bat, but he was not good enough to touch the ball which flew past his outside edge into Ramdin's gloves once more.
Sammy had been denied the hat trick on debut, but he was to have the last laugh when moments later, in the same over, he got rid of Plunkett, caught by who else but the effervescent Bravo. And Sammy wasn't done yet!
He completed his virtually single-handed demolition of England by snapping up the wickets of Harmison, Cook and Panesar in quick time on an afternoon that saw England collapse from 265 for 3 to 313 all out, leaving the West Indies a victory target of 455.
Sammy's exploits in England today, the 9th of June 2007, have already resulted in calls in his homeland Saint Lucia for the Beausejour Cricket Ground there to be renamed after him.
Long-suffering West Indian cricket fans finally got something to cheer about today! Debutant Darren Sammy produced a memorable spell of bowling on the third afternoon at Old Trafford to finish with the remarkable figures of 21.3-2-66-7! He was the first West Indian cricketer to capture seven or more wickets on debut since Alf Valentine snatched 8 for 104 on the same ground fifty-seven years ago.
Sammy was the most economical West Indian bowler in England's first innings, but not even his most ardent supporter could have anticipated the masterly performance which was to come! It is true that he and Bravo had distinguished themselves in the field from the start of the cricket match while their colleagues struggled, but Old Trafford's rock-hard surface was not expected to offer much assistance to a medium-pacer and Windies pacer Fidel Edwards and England's Steve Harmison with their 90 mph missiles were expected to take the lime light. In fact West Indian great, Michael Holding had, on the first day of the Test match, bitterly criticized Sammy's inclusion ahead of Jamaican speedster Darren Powell and the mercurial Marlon Samuels. During the course of the match English television cricket commentator, Nasser Hussain had described Sammy as a "bits-and-pieces cricketer". Would Sammy ever smear egg on those gurus' faces!
Sammy began by taking a stupendous one-handed catch on his follow-through to dismiss England's bemused captain, Michael Vaughn for 40. But it was not until later in the afternoon that he was to really weave his magic around the mesmerised English cricketers. Sammy, whose stock delivery is an off-cutter in the corridor of uncertainty outside a right-hander's off-stump, suddenly bowled one to Bell which touched down on off stump and straightened. Bell groped uncertainly at the delivery and snicked the ball to a delighted Ramdin behind the stumps!
That brought in wicket-keeper Matthew Prior, whose batting has been a revelation for England in the cricket series. Sammy was in no mood to take any prisoners, however! He greeted the English glove-man with another beauty on off-stump which held its own as Prior felt for it and he could do no more than get a feather on it and Ramdin did the rest. Darren Sammy, the twenty-three year old from the rural community of Micoud in Saint Lucia was on a hat-trick!
In to the wicket walked Plunkett. Windies acting cricket captain Ganga crowded the new batsman who waited nervously as Sammy ran in and bowled yet another pearler which kissed the pitched just outside the off stump and again straightened. Plunkett had to offer the bat, but he was not good enough to touch the ball which flew past his outside edge into Ramdin's gloves once more.
Sammy had been denied the hat trick on debut, but he was to have the last laugh when moments later, in the same over, he got rid of Plunkett, caught by who else but the effervescent Bravo. And Sammy wasn't done yet!
He completed his virtually single-handed demolition of England by snapping up the wickets of Harmison, Cook and Panesar in quick time on an afternoon that saw England collapse from 265 for 3 to 313 all out, leaving the West Indies a victory target of 455.
Sammy's exploits in England today, the 9th of June 2007, have already resulted in calls in his homeland Saint Lucia for the Beausejour Cricket Ground there to be renamed after him.
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