Windies on the Way to Victory?
With South Africa 138/4 chasing 389 (at tea on the fourth day's play), could we possibly be looking at history? If so, you'll want to look back at these highlights of the first two days of the Test match. I'll add any clips of victory celebrations I find later. (Thanks to World Cup on ULynkx)
Day 1 - Part 1
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Windies Let South Africa Back In the Game
The West Indies took firm control of the first Test match against South Africa today, but gave South Africa a fighting chance with the familiar 'calypso collapso' in the third session of the day's play.
With South Africa resuming on 122/5, the Windies got the early breakthrough that they needed when Jerome Taylor removed Mark Boucher at 129/6. AB deVilliers (59) and Paul Harris (9) staged a mini fightback and took the score to 172 before Dwayne Bravo bowled deVilliers. Bravo then cleaned up the tail to finish with figures of 4-24 from 13 tight overs.Read more
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Subscribing to www.windiescricket.com
Finally!! The WICB site now has RSS. They still need to redirect http://windiescricket.com to http://www.windiescricket.com though. Now only if the websites of our Caribbean newspapers will get RSS...
Subscribe away! And subscribe to Rain, No Play while you're at it! :)
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Windies On Top!
Shivnarine Chanderpaul(104) did today what Marlon Samuels and Chris Gayle failed to do yesterday...convert his half-century into a ton. In notching up his 17th Test century, Chanderpaul guided the Windies to a very respectable first innings score of 408. After losing overnight partner Dwayne Bravo (12) and wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin (1) early on, Chanderpaul received good support from Darren Sammy(38) as the Windies put Dale Steyn (2 - 121) and Makhaya Ntini to the sword, in compiling their challenging total. When Chanderpaul passed 50, he tied the world record for most successive fifties, this being his seventh in consecutive innings dating back to his virtuoso performance in England of this year.Read more
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Windies Fight
Marlon Samuels got the West Indies off to a good start on day 1 of their first Test in South Africa. The Windies' first day score of 281/4 was built around Samuels' 94, but it was captain Chris Gayle's blazing 66 off 49 deliveries that got the Windies off to a flier. Gayle, who was doubtful to play in this match due to his hamstring injury, and Daren Ganga(33) put on 98 for the first wicket against the likes of Makhaya Ntini, the much-hyped Dale Steyn and Andre Nel. Lending strong support to Samuels were Shiv Chanderpaul(43n.o.) and Runako Morton (33).Read more
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John Dyson is the New Windies Coach
Cricinfo today reported that John Dyson, the former Australian opening batsman and former Sri Lanka coach has been picked to be the next Windies coach.
Popular sentiment in the Caribbean was that Dav Whatmore, the former Bangladesh and Sri Lanka coach, was the fan favorite owing to his experience and if not him then a West Indian such as Ottis Gibson, or one of the assistant coaches David Williams or Hendy Springer. Instead we watched as Whatmore was allowed to take up the head coaching role at the Indian Cricket Academy and Gibson, despite publicly expressing his desire to coach in the Windies, was allowed to be appointed full time England bowling coach. What we all thought was dilly-dallying on the part of the WICB may have been because Dyson was the preferred candidate. According to Cricinfo, Dyson "edged out another Australian, Dav Whatmore" for the post. (Or maybe this is what the WICB would have us believe).Read more
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Whatmore for Windies Coach?
Caribbean Cricket today reported that former Sri Lankan and Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore is among the candidates to replace former coach Bennett King. John Dyson, another former coach of Sri Lanka is a candidate as well. The list of West Indians includes Phil Simmons, Eldine Baptiste, current assistants David Williams and Hendy Springer as well as allrounder and newly appointed English bowling coach Ottis Gibson and Roger Harper's brother Mark.
As a World Cup winning coach with Sri Lanka in 1996, Whatmore headlines the list of possible coaches. He last coached Bangladesh to unprecedented wins over India and South Africa in the last world Cup and was heavily rumored to be a strong candidate in the coaching searches in Pakistan, England and India. With the well documented failure of Australian Bennett King's tenure, the West Indian cricketing public might be unwilling to welcome another Australian in Whatmore. However, Whatmore would come to the job with a proven record of taking teams like Sri Lanka in the mid nineties and Bangladesh of 2007 to unprecedented heights. King on the other hand, had no international experience as the coach of the Australian cricket academy when he took over the Windies job. John Dyson experienced mixed success in two years at the helm in Sri Lanka, but he doesn't enjoy the international stature of Whatmore and almost definitely would be unpalatable to the West Indies public.Read more
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The Last Time these Two Teams Met...
It's all set now. India will meet Pakistan in the first ever Twenty20 World Cup final. Today, Pakistan dumped New Zealand while India crashed Australia's party, sending them to their third loss of the tournament and back home. There are subplots to these two results namely New Zealand's failure again, following their semi final loss in the ODI World Cup, to make the big game, as well as Australia's stunning failures in a championship. The real story however is the big matchup between these two subcontinent foes, who earlier in the tournament played to a stunning tie that was decided in a bowl off which India won.
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Yuvraj Singh - 12 ball fifty
This video of Yuvraj Singh's six sixes off England's Stuart Broad says it all. Yuvraj blasted his way to the fastest ever fifty in international cricket off only 12 balls, including the aforementioned 36 off Broad's 4th over. Yuvraj joined South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs as the only players to hit 6 sixes in an over in international cricket. Yuvraj's late innings heroics led to India's 18 run victory over England and set up a must win match Thursday against South Africa. A win by India would leave a three way tie atop Group E along with New Zealand and the net run rate will determine which two of the tree qualify for the semi finals. In Group F, Pakistan seem a lock for the semis with the other qualifier being the winner of Thursday's Sri Lanka-Australia World Cup finals rematch.
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Gayle Blasts First Twenty20 Century
Chris Gayle launched a massive onslaught against South Africa's bowlers today, making the first ever century in Twenty20 Internationals. His hundred came off 51 balls with 9 massive sixes and 5 fours. At 168/2 off 15 overs, the West Indies are threatening the highest ever score for a Twenty20 International (221/5). A word of caution though, the ground that this match is being played on is the same in which South Africa chased down 434 in a 50 over match in 2006.
UPDATE: Gayle was out for 117 off only 57 balls as the Windies made 205/6.
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