Rain, No Play

Dav Whatmore

Ottis Gibson

David Williams

Hendy Springer

John Dyson

Phil Simmons

Eldine Baptiste

Mark Harper

Ian Allen

Someone Else

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 »

India

Pakistan

   

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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Pakistan

New Zealand

Australia

India

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.

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.

*from the Jamaica Observer.

"West Indies would like to get hold of that trophy first." - Chris Gayle

"in Twenty20, you have to be attacking and flamboyant, and that's the way we like to play our cricket." - Ramnaresh Sarwan

With the opening match of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup just days away in South Africa, the West Indies' captain and vice captain have been talking up the team's chances. But should we really believe them? Didn't we hear this kind of talk before the 50 over World Cup this year in March, only to see the team flop when it mattered most at the Super 8s stage? Let's examine the possibility of a West Indies win.  read more »

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Zimbabwe

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Kenya

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