West Indies’ Captain Jason Holder bowls against India during day one of their fi rst cricket Test match at the Sir
Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. Associated Press / Ricardo Mazalan, fi le
CPL’s tourney
CPL STARS IN WEST INDIES TEAM Women’s
Barbados Tridents crowned CPL champions
Caribbean L 54 ife, OCTOBER 25-31, 2019 BQ
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He is joined by fellow Amazon
Warriors, Brandon King and Imran
Tahir, who both played an integral
part in the Guyana franchise’s record
breaking tournament.
The sole representative from the
Jamaica Tallawahs’ Glen Phillips (374
runs) also received the nod as the
wicketkeeper for the team.
The Trinbago Knight Riders have
two players in the team Lendl Simmons
and Kieron Pollard.
Simmons was a last replacement
in the Knight Riders but he did a
superb job as an opener.
Pollard got the captaincy after
Dwayne Bravo pulled out of the tournament
through injury and led from
the front with the bat and ball.
The Barbados Tridents have three
players who made the team, Jason
Holder, Harry Gurney and Hayden
Walsh Jnr.
There were two other players in
the team representing St. Kitts &
Nevis Patriots-Fabien Allen and Sheldon
Cottrell.
The team was selected by Tom
Moody, Hero CPL’s director, along
with the commentary team of March
Butcher, Danny Morrison, Dirk
Nanes, and Ian Bishop.
head coach
With interim manager Ann
–Browne being promoted to the head
women’s selector, Lewis will assume
the manager’s role immediately
for the international Home Series
against India.
The Windies women will host the
Indians for three Colonial Medical
Insurance One-Day Internationals
and five T20 Internationals from Nov.
1-20, with matches to be played in
Antigua, St. Lucia and Guyana.
Chris Gayle (who said he is unavailable)
and bowlers Sunil Narine, Andre Russell
and Shannon Gabriel.
There was also no room for middleorder
batsman Darren Bravo, former
Twenty20 Captain, Carlos Brathwaite and
Oshane Thomas as the players have not
been in the best of form, the selectors
said.
Three players are all in the three squads
including former One-Day International
and current Test Captain, Jason Holder,
batsman Shimron Hetmyer and fast bowler
Alzarri Joseph. Wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin
has been recalled for the Twenty20.
King and Simmons led the run scoring
charts at the recently concluded 2019
Hero CPL.
Leg-spinner Walsh Jr., 27, who has
never played for West Indies, has played
one One-Day Internationals and eight
Twenty20s for USA. He took 22 wickets
in just nine matches at the economy rate
of 8.29 for the CPL champions Barbados
Tridents.
He is eligible to play for both the West
Indies and USA, as he was born in St.
Croix, US Virgin Islands to his Antiguan
father Hayden Walsh.
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West Indies Women’s interim
coach Gus Logie.
Associated Press / Lynne Sladky
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By Azad Ali
Guyana Amazon Warriors have lost
another Hero Caribbean Premier League
(CPL) final.
Playing in their fifth CPL final in
seven years, the Amazon Warriors lost
to Barbados Tridents by 27 runs at the
Brian Lara Stadium in South Trinidad
last Saturday night.
Chasing 172 for victory, the Amazon
Warriors lost wickets regularly and
could only reach 144 / 9 in 20 overs. It
was a heart-breaking loss for the Amazon
Warriors.
The Amazon Warriors went into the
finals on a high winning 11 consecutive
matches.
It was Tridents second title, after
winning the crown in 2014 in a rematch
with the Amazon Warriors under the
leadership of Kieron Pollard.
Pollard was made leader of the Trinbago
Kinght Riders (TKR) in place of
regular captain Dwayne Bravo for this
tournament, who suffered a hand injury
before the start of the preliminary
rounds.
Amazon Warriors captain Shaoib
Malick acknowledged his team’s difficulty
in getting over the line in previous
campaigns (2013, 2013, 2016 and 2018)
which was expected to be a tough battle
in the final against a team which he has
been a part of in the past.
The Tridents booked their place in
the final after whipping the three-time
champions TTKR by 12 runs in the
semi-final two days before at the same
venue.
The Tridents won the toss and decided
to take first strike and openers Alex
Hayles and Johnson Charles, flying out
of the boxes, hammered 43 runs by the
sixth over before Hales was out for 28. At
the innings break, Tridents were 73 for 3
after 9.3 overs.
It soon became 90 / 5 in the 13th over
as Shai Hope was caught at midwicket
for 8 and captain Jason Holder’s miserable
run with the bat continued as he
was run out for one.
A mix up between Jonathan Carter
and Shakib Al Hassan led to the run of
the latter for 15 as Tridents were now
desperate for a partnership on 108 / 6
in the 15 over.
Carter and semi-finnal hero Ashley
Nurse responded by putting on an
unbroken stand of 63 runs to guide Tridents
to a competitive 171 / 6.