West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite celebrates dismissing England’s Ben Stokes during the fi fth One-Day International
cricket match at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, Saturday, March 2, 2019. Associated Press /
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Matthews leading Bajan women cricket
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CWI President Dave Cameron.
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and the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket
Board, setting the stage for an
intriguing campaign in the coming
weeks in what is expected to be a
tense election.
Jamaican, Cameron, a highly
controversial figure in West Indies
cricket, is running for a fourth consecutive
term as CWI president after
being first elected back in 2013 when
he took over from St. Lucian diplomat
Julian Hunte.
He will be partnered again by Vice-
President Emmanuel Nathan.
Skerrit, who is also a CWI director
said one of the main aims once
elected was to significantly reduce
the sizeable budget allocated to the
president’s office and redirect those
funds into grassroots development.
The move is contained in a 10-point
“Cricket First” plan, which forms the
campaign of the duo for the top positions
in CWI.
The month-long nomination for
the March 24, 2019 election closed
last week.
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stone and was thankful for the
opportunity that was given to her
to represent the West Indies over
the years.
Lucia with a swashbuckling 77 off 26
balls to hurry his team to victory at
115 for three just after 2 pm.
Gayle, the “Man-of-the-Series”
struck sixes all over the ground,
hammering nine of them, which now
gives him the record for the most
in a bilateral series. Gayle’s 39 sixes
in the series, passes that previous
record of 23 set by India’s Rohit
Sharma. He finished the series with
scores of 135, 50, 162, and 77.
He struck England’s fast bowler
Mark Wood for 26 in one over, and
was bowled off the last ball.
Captain Jason Holder won the toss
and sent in England to bat on a pitch,
which had a tinge of grass on the
surface.
The English batsmen found batting
on the bouncy pitch difficult
with the pace of Thomas and folded
for 113.
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West Indies’ bowler Anisa Mohammed.
Associated Press / Aijaz Rahi, File
GAYLE SETS NEW BATTING RECORD
Windies record
By George Alleyne
At only 20 years of age she already
commands a major place in the West
Indies Women cricket team holding
the rank of vice-captain, so it is a natural
progression that Barbadian Hayley
Matthews takes up the helm of her
island’s team.
It was this week announced that
she takes over the Barbados women’s
captaincy from experienced fast bowler
Shakera Selman to take on the five
other regional jurisdictions in defence
of the Regional Women’s Super50 title
that begins next Thursday, March 14,
and runs until April 04 in Guyana.
Defending champions Barbados won
the 2018 competition under Selman’s
leadership but the older pacer relinquished
her leadership role in favour of
the young star.
Matthews, an allrounder who opens
the batting, first played for the West
Indies at age 16, and in 2016 blasted 66
runs from 45 balls to lead the regional
side to victory in the T20 World cup
final in India.
“Even though I am young I’ve been
around for a couple of years playing for
West Indies. Being under captains like
Merissa Aguilleira, Stafanie Taylor as
well as Shakera Selman here in Barbados,
I have learnt a lot from them,”
Matthews told Barbados TODAY newspaper
following her appointment.
“We have an excellent chance. We
have several West Indian players on our
team and a solid batting and bowling
line-up. So, to go out there in Guyana
and defend our title, I know it will be
challenging, but once we play the cricket
that we know we can, I think we can
do the double.”
In her quest to retain the Super
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