West Indies’ captain Jason Holder, right, greets bowler Roston Chase after day four of their fi rst cricket Test match
against England at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. West Indies won by 381
runs and Chase took eight wickets. Associated Press / Ricardo Mazalan
Haynes
NEW RECORDS SET IN TEST CCC crowned
Jason Holder only West Indies
player in ICC Test XI team
Caribbean L 48 ife, Feb. 1–7, 2019
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replace the departing Australian Stuart
Law.
But CWI earlier this month controversially
appointed Richard Pybus as
interim head coach even though the
Englishman was not part of the short
list.C
WI announced before the start of
the first Test between West Indies and
England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
last week, former West Indies fast
bowler, Vasbert Drakes, Usuan Crandon
and another Englishmen Toby Radford
as the coaching support staff.
Haynes, who in the past served as a
batting consultant had publicly stated
his desire to return to the West Indies
coaching staff and had received the
backing of iconic former West Indies
captain, Clive Lloyd.
Former West Indies batsman Floyd
Reifer, who oversaw the regional team’s
only series success on the recent Bangladesh
tour when he took charge for the
Twenty20 phase, was also overlooked
along with former Windies senor team
bowling coach, Roddy Estwick.
champs
CCC skipper Yannick Ottley then
held the lower order together with 31
off 30 balls with one four. His effort
took the CCC over the 100-run mark
and eventually ended on 135 for 9
after 20 overs.
When Oxford took to the crease,
the Englishmen found the going
tough, as opening bowlers Michael
Powell and Jaelamie Seales had them
on the run very early.
In the end, they made 115 for 8,
going under by 20 runs.
Powell ended with 3 for 17, while
Seales took 2 for 28.
equaling one, the England paceman
(5-46) to match Sir Ian Botham’s tally
of 27 ‘five-fors’ for his country, 16 years
ago after he bagged his first on debut.
West Indies did not allow the followon
and close the second day’s play on
127 for 6 wickets, but West Indies skipper
Jason Holder and wicket-keeper
Shane Dowrich recorded the highest
seventh wicket unbeaten partnership in
Test history as the hosts put England on
the back foot in an extraordinary first
Test in Barbados.
England had an outside chance at
victory when they had the hosts reeling
at 61 for five late on the second day
until Holder and Dowrich came to the
wicket.
Holder and Dowrich took the match
out of England’s reach as the Windies
captain scored 202 not out, which was
the highest by a number eight batsman
in Test history, behind only Pakistan
duo of Wasim Akram (257 not out) and
Imtiaz Ahmed (209).
Dowrich made a patient 116 to put on
an unbeaten seventh-wicket partnership
of 295 at Kensington Oval.
Their stand was the third-highest for
a seventh wicket in Test history and also
surpassed the previous records for an
unbeaten partnership, 259 set by VVS
Laxman and Mahendra Singh Dohni of
India against South Africa in 2010.
West Indies had two full days in
which to take England’s 10 wickets and
take the lead in the three-Test series
against the ICC’s third ranked.
Scores were England 77 and 246:
West Indies 289 and 415 for 6 declared.
England’s target 628
The second Test moves to Antigua
this week.
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Kjorn Ottley pulls one away, Combined
Campuses and Colleges v
Windward Islands, Group A, Regional
Super50, Cave Hill, Jan. 30,
2018.
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West Indies’ player 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
By Azad Ali
All-rounder Jason Holder is the
only West Indies player selected to the
ICC teams-of-the-year.
The ICC announced last week that
the West Indies Test captain found a
place in the Test team led by India
skipper Virat Kholi, following an outstanding
year which saw him dominate
the longest format of the game.
Holder picked 33 wickets from six
Tests at an average of 11.87 — the
best by any bowler in a calendar year
for the last century.
His performance pushed him up
the ICC rankings where he lies tenth
in the bowling rankings and second
in the all-rounders chart.
Overall, the Barbadian has taken
86 wickets from 35 Tests at an average
of 28.50.
Holder is currently leading the
West Indies team in a three-Test
series against England which began
last week at Kensington Oval, Barbados.
He missed the recent tour of Bangladesh
with an injury but is reportedly
fit again.
The 27-year-old is one of four fast
bowlers in the ICC Test team with
South Africa Kagiso Rabada, Pakistan’s
Mohammed Abbas and India’s
Jasprit Bumrah all included.
WICB Media / Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography