Apparently, Shiv Chanderpaul walked out of a first class game to go to an awards ceremony and didn’t come back. The wonderfully named Lockhart Sebastien said: “this is not a curry goat match“.
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April 1, 2008
Quote of the day – Lockhart Sebastien
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November 8, 2007
What is your West Indian cricketer name?
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Major hat tip to the legendary Bob Light (aka Reagan Skegness), who has alerted me to the preferred method of discovering one’s West Indian cricketer name.
Apparently, one needs to take the surname of the sitting American president at the time of your birth as your first name, and the last English seaside resport you visited as as your surname.
That would make me Carter Torquay. Such a player would hit the ball miles and bowl at 100 mph, despite having had several rum and cokes and some Red Stripe on me boat (pronounced “boe-att”) the night before, and danced until dawn.
Speaking of West Indian cricketers, the great Floyd Lamonte Reifer (in tribute to whom the Keele Reefer Association flies its flag) believes he can regain selection for the West Indies team, especially for one-day internationals.
Between 1997 and 1999 he appeared in four Tests and two one-dayers with little success and has not been considered since.
According to Cricinfo, Reifer believes his next chance to impress the West Indies selectors will come in the Carib Beer Series when the Combined Campuses and College make their debut early next year.
“I will be looking to score heavily and make a statement,” he said. “In the KFC Cup I played one of my best innings and that told me how much I had left in me.”
August 3, 2007
Best cricket sledges ever
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Apparently, click here for them.
July 6, 2007
Is he insane?
Posted by thevillagecricketer under England cricket team, Entertainment, West Indies cricket[13] Comments
Mild-mannered Lancastrian Jimmy Anderson must have been brought up very tough on the mean streets of Burnley… either that or he is daft!
Why else would he choose to pick on Runako Morton, a man bigger than him that was reportedly arrested and charged with stabbing his cousin in the chest following a family dispute in 2004? Plus he was wearing a helmet and carrying a bat! Anderson wouldn’t have had a chance!
Cricinfo reports that Anderson has been fined 50% of his match fee for shoulder-barging Runako Morton during the second one-day international at Edgbaston.
Quite rightly the match referee has stepped in as the players are “are role models watched by people all over the world.”
More importantly however, and this is a very serious offence, Stuart Broad was found guilty of wearing a “visible white garment” under his playing shirt on Wednesday, something not permitted under clothing regulations. Hanging is the only appropriate sentence!
Speaking of James Anderson, this is his wife…
June 20, 2007
Worst Windies ever?
Posted by thevillagecricketer under England cricket team, West Indies cricket, West Indies test seriesLeave a Comment
So, a 3-0 victory over the Windies, would probably have been 4-0 but for bad weather at Lords. Were England fantastic, no, were the Windies poor, yes. Chanderpaul, Sammy and perhaps Bravo apart, the Windies were a pretty woeful bunch. Was this the worst Windies side to visit England ever? I reckon so. Cricinfo reviews the papers and scores the players here.
The ODI series should be more even, but I would be very much surprise if the Windies win more than just the one match.
June 7, 2007
It seems like only yesterday that a young DJ Sammy was tearing up the turf on Lonsdale Road. Today he becomes the first St Lucian to represent the West Indies. Congrats!
May 29, 2007
It shouldn’t be this easy
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Having taken the 5-0 ass-whooping from the Canary Yellows this winter, it was great to record a test victory, especially as it meant that Michael Vaughan equalled Peter May’s record of 20 Test wins as England captain. KP and Vaughan excelled with the bat, but who would have though that Sideshow Bob would have been so destructive?
Unfortunately, I for one am left a little cold by the innings and four-thousand run victory over the West Indies. Granted, we bowled and batted well, England are a decent test side, we had the better of the conditions, and the Windies were unlucky with injuries. However, having grown up watching the great West Indian sides of the 1980s, it is sad to see them looking so poor.
May 3, 2007
DJ boosts Windies squad, Sarwan risks madness
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The West Indies have announced a squad for the four-Test series against England, and it includes the magnificent Darren Julius Garvey Sammy, a 23 year-old all-rounder from St Lucia. DJ, who played a season at Barnes CC in London, has been included in the squad at the expense of Marlon Samuels. Following the retirement of Brian Lara, Ramnaresh Sarwan has taken on what Tony Cozier calls the “most hazardous job in West Indies cricket… its pressures have been so great that they forced Richie Richardson and Brian Lara to take a break from the game, the former to recover from the stress-induced condition ‘acute fatigue syndrome’ the latter to ‘seek the assistance of appropriate professionals’.”Being captain of the Windies is a maddening job!
Great news for the DJ, when he played at Barnes he was a skint teenager on the MCC ground staff. He has now started to make a decent living from the game and it is great to see him doing well. Here’s hoping he has a fantastic series for the Windies, but that England triumph!
West Indies squad for test-match series against England: Ramnaresh Sarwan (capt), Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Corey Collymore, Fidel Edwards, Daren Ganga, Chris Gayle, Sylvester Joseph, Runako Morton, Daren Powell, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Darren Sammy, Devon Smith, Jerome Taylor.
April 20, 2007
The Village Cricket tips his hat to Mr Brian Charles Lara, the retiring record-breaking West Indian genius who twice broke the world record for the most runs in a single test innings and scored 501 in a county innings. I have had the privelage to be present to watch him bat in both test and county cricket, and to be him in his very own computer game. Cricket will be the poorer without him – and the West Indies even more beatable.
April 2, 2007
Its a fine old time
Posted by thevillagecricketer under Keele Reefer Association, Sri Lanka cricket, Village cricket, West Indies cricket, World Cup 20071 Comment
The West Indies have been fined for a slow over-rate during their during their 113-run defeat against Sri Lanka. Match referee Jeff Crowe, who has previous in this tournament, imposed the fines after Brian Lara’s side was ruled two overs short of its target at the scheduled finish of the Sri Lanka innings. As such, Lara has been fined 20 percent of his match fee while his players have each received 10 percent fines.
Now, this got me thinking. On this summer’s Keele Reefer Association tour to Devon, players will be fined for certain misdemeanors (although a slow over rate will probably not be amongst them) and I think it wise to get some opinion on fineable offences and the going rate. For example:
- Dropped catch = £2
- Scoring less than 10 runs in an innings = £1
- A duck = £2
- Village behaviour (click here for possible offences) = £2
I am keen to get your thoughts on this. Please leave your comments in the usual place.
