West Indies’ Keemo Paul is bowled out by India’s Mohammed Shami during the second one day international
cricket match between India and West Indies in Visakhapatnam, India, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019.
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By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has
appointed Australian, Chris Brabazon
as it first-ever coach education
manager, a move aimed at “producing
world-class players” for the international
teams.
Brabazon, formerly the Western Australia’s
coach development manager,
has signed a three-year deal, which will
immediately oversee a Level 2 coaching
course which recently got underway in
Kingston, Jamaica.
Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams
said Brabazon appointment is a critical
feature of “our strategic plan to
produce world-class players and winning
teams through the development
of West Indies coaches.”
He added: “Chris brings a wealth of
experience having held a similar role of
coach development manager in Western
Australia for the past six years. He
has worked at every level of the Cricket
Australia coaching development pathway,
from grassroots to international
level and is well-placed to drive CWI’s
objective of developing our coach education
program.”
Brabazon holds a post graduate certificate
in Business Administration with
a focus in cricket and has also worked
with talent development and cricket
management in Australia.
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) President,
Ricky Skerritt has vowed to invest more
in West Indies young development after
the West Indies Emerging Players recently
won the Colonial Medical Insurance
Super50 with a 205-run victory over the
Leeward Islands Hurricanes.
“The investment will follow them (the
young players) wherever they are. Our
high performance system, as we get more
investment, will begin to produce more
interventions,” said Skerritt after congratulating
the squad on their achievement.
He said the performance was not
about keeping this core unit specifically
but creating a bigger system so individual
players could enter as part of a feeder system
and move on to greater success.
“What is important is the standards
they set for themselves with the support
and investment that they have received,
we can keep that happening over next
year,” he added.
Regarding the model of developmental
teams in the current regional set up,
Skerritt referenced the CCC team which
on the title last year, but lost key players
and were decimated this year.
The president said this style of raiding
augurs well as it means territories want
their players back for central contract,
which could be the case next season.
Skerritt wants to continue pushing
youngsters in the region to elevate themselves
so they too can replicate what has
been done in the last couple years in this
competition where the big guns such as
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana
and Barbados have been underperforming.
crushed Afghanistan by nine wickets
inside three days in Lucknow, India.
Cornwall’s effort in only his second
Test following his debut last August in
the Caribbean, saw him become the first
West Indies spinner to claim a 10-wicket
match haul on the subcontinent.
Meanwhile, batsman Sharmarh
Brooks also moved up the batting rankings
from 68 places to 62nd following his
excellent 111 in the first innings — his
maiden Test century, in his third outing.
he intends to appeal.
The fast bowler was fined 10 percent
by match referee Hayden Bruce
for striking a garbage bin near the
entrance of the enclosure at the
Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in South
Trinidad.
Arising out of the same incident,
Harding was also reported and fined
70 percent by Bruce for showing serious
dissent at an umpire’s decision by
action or verbal abuse.
Rahul (102) shared a massive opening
stand worth 227 runs in a total of 387-5.
Nicholas Pooran’s whirlwind 75 off 47
balls and Shai Hope’s 78 runs anchored
the West Indies innings. But the collapse
cost them momentum at a vital time, and
No. 8 Keemo Paul’s defiant 46 off 42 balls
came far too late.
Earlier, Sharma led the way with his
28th ODI century as he and Rahul put on
India’s fourth-highest opening partnership
in ODIs. It helped India tally its secondhighest
ODI total against West Indies, after
418-5 eight years ago.
The imposing total could have been
even more daunting if not for a rare golden
duck from the prolific Virat Kohli. The
owner of 70 hundreds for India, including
43 in ODIs at an average of 60, he at least
walked off amused after being caught off a
slower short delivery from captain Kieron
Pollard in the 38th over.
Put into bat by West Indies again, India
got off to a careful start on a good batting
surface and the first 50 runs took 58 balls.
Rahul was the more aggressive, striking
eight fours and three sixes in reaching 50
off 46 balls. Sharma was steadier, needing
67 to reach his 50 as India passed 100 in
the 21st over.
West Indies kept searching for wickets
as runs started to arrive quicker for India,
with 200 coming up in the 34th over.
Sharma was the first to reach three figures,
off 107 balls. It was his seventh ODI
hundred in 2019, moving him an equal
second with Sourav Ganguly (India) and
David Warner (Australia) for most centuries
in a calendar year. India great Sachin
Tendulkar scored nine in 1998.
His eighth score of 150 or more in
one-day cricket is the most for any batsman
and he hit 17 fours and five sixes in
another fine knock.
Rahul scored his third ODI hundred
and first on home soil from 102 balls. He
was out straight afterwards and then India
immediately lost Kohli.
Sharma and Shreyas Iyer (53) put on
60 runs for the third wicket as India’s
momentum resumed and then escalated.
Iyer and Rishabh Pant laid siege to the
West Indies bowling with 72 runs off 25
balls for the fourth wicket. Their partnership
included 31 runs off the 47th over
bowled by Roston Chase (0-48), setting a
new record for the most runs scored by an
Indian pair in a ODI over.
Pant smacked 39 off 16 balls, including
four sixes, and Iyer also smashed four sixes
as he raced to a fourth consecutive ODI 50
off 28 balls.
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