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Women’s T10 games
By Azad Ali
The Hero Caribbean Premier
League (CPL), Cricket West Indies
(CWI) and the government of Trinidad
and Tobago are partnering to
host two women’s T10 matches
ahead of the men’s T20 semi-final
and final.
CPL said in a media release that
the best woman cricketers from
across the Caribbean will be playing
in the NLCB Challenge on Oct. 10,
bowling off at 3 pm and the Courts
Invitational on Oct. 12, from 12.30
pm to be played at the Brian Lara
Stadium, Trinidad.
Pete Russell, CEO of CPL said:
“Hero CPL is always looking for way
to innovate and give more chances
for fans and enjoy world class cricket.
These T10 matches with the best
women’s cricketers from across the
Caribbean are just the latest example
or our tournament pushing to be
more inclusive and forward thinking.”
CWI CEO Johnny Grave said
“improving the opportunities for
women and girls to get involved in
cricket is one of our top priorities.”
By Azad Ali
West Indies Women will host India
Women for three Colonial Medical
Insurance One-Day Internationals and
five Twenty20s Internationals from Nov.
1-20, with matches to be played in Antigua,
St. Lucia and Guyana.
This was announced by Cricket West
Indies (CWI) who said India Women will
arrive in the Caribbean on Oct. 28 ahead
of the first ODI on Nov. 1 to be played at
the Sir Vivian Richards Ground on Antigua’s
38th Independence Day.
All three matches of the ODI series
will be played in Antigua on Nov. 1, 3
and 6 and points accrued in this series
all count towards the ICC Women’s
Championship 2017-2021.
The fifth-match T20 series will be
played across two countries with the
first two matches taking place at the
Daren Sammy Cricket Stadium in St.
Lucia on Nov. 9 and l0 and the next
three games being contested at the
Providence Stadium in Guyana on Nov.
14, 17, and 20.
CWI Director of Cricket, Jimmy
Adams said the long tour against the
Indians will give the hosts “a better
opportunity to fine tune their skills
ahead of the T20 World Cup in Australia
next year.”
Brathwaite underwent a bowling
assessment on Sept. 14 in the English
city of Loughborough, it was revealed
that the amount of elbows extension
for all his deliveries was within the
15-degree level of tolerance permitted
. Braithwaite has taken 18 wickets
in 58 Tests with is part-time off-spin,
including a remarkable spell of 6 for
29 against Sri Lanka in Colombo in
2015.
Two years later, his action was
reported after the first Test against
England at Edgbaston, but another
less than two weeks found his action
to be legitimate.
advantage in the head-to-head
matchups, having won seven of the
nine ODIs and two of the four T20s
against the Irish.
They also beat Ireland in their last
three One-Day Internationals meetings
during the Tri-Nations Series in
Dublin earlier this year.
Ireland secured Test status along
with Afghanistan in 2017. West Indies
are ranked ninth in the ICC One-Day
International rankings, while Ireland
is two places lower.
silver and bronze.
The Bahamas at 15th overall had
one gold and one silver.
Grenada at 17th overall had one
gold.
The indomitable Shelly-Ann Fraser
Pryce ran 10.71 seconds in the 100
metres dash to claim the first of her
country’s golds. This is the fourth time
that Fraser-Pryce beat the field for a
World championships gold.
The 32-year-old said after the race,
“my secret is just staying humble and
just know who you are as a person
and athlete and just continue to work
hard”.
The diminutive sprinting powerhouse
then joined colleagues Natalliah
Whyte, Jonielle Smith and Shericka
Jackson to destroy a star-studded field
to win the Women’s 4X100 gold.
Competing in his first World Championships,
Tajay Gayle broke Jamaica’s
national record with a leap of 8.69
metres in the long jump, the longest
leap with a legal wind in the world for
10 years to round off the island’s three
golds.
Cuba’s Yaime Perez emerged as a
model in persistence as despite winning
nothing in her three previous
championship appearances in the discus
throw. She threw for 69.17 metres
to best the field for the island’s lone
gold.
The Bahamas’ Steven Gardiner
managed to put out of mind his country’s
recent destruction by Hurricane
Dorian for at least 43.48 seconds to
win the men’s 400 metres. That goldwinning
time set a new Bahamas
national record.
Grenada’s Anderson Peters shocked
observers with an 86.89 javelin throw
to best a field of world stars and earn
the island’s lone gold.
The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper
reported Championships head coach,
Maurice Wilson, saying that the Caribbean
athletics lead country has, “proven
to the world that we are not only a
global power in track, but in track and
field. We are a global power because
we have garnered final positions in
different disciplines, the 800m, the
short sprints, the throws, the jumps,
we could not ask for more in terms
of all-round performance from our
athletes.”
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