Pride in Windies cricket regardless of wins, losses
If you are keen on finding out where all the highly skilled West Indies cricketers are, just look around the T20 circuit and you’ll find more than you could bargain for.
If you are keen on finding out where all the highly skilled West Indies cricketers are, just look around the T20 circuit and you’ll find more than you could bargain for.
Australia can’t afford to look too far ahead. This is not going to be as straightforward as you’d think.
If anything, the Scots would prefer having the honour of knocking out England for themselves by beating Australia.
USA lay down the law as to how they wanted the Indian and Pakistani cricket fans to make the most of this one-off opportunity on American soil.
The cliche of Barbados being so laid-back that it’s horizontal will be music to the ears of Australia’s T20 cricketers. Most of the players in the squad only arrived in Barbados in batches over the previous 30-odd hours, some enduring 38-hour journeys to get there.
With Indian-origin people estimated to represent 1.3 per cent of the overall US population, it’s no surprise teams from the subcontinent will be roared along at the T20 World Cup in the USA. Make no mistake, the grandstand crowds won’t be ignorant.
Overlooking Jake Fraser-McGurk has little to do with how talented he is and everything to do with selecting a national T20I World Cup squad as opposed to an XI for a T20 league franchise.
The looming retirement of one of cricket’s all-time greats could be the last of its kind.
Despite having broken more than a billion Indian hearts in the World Cup only five months ago, Pat Cummins has gone from villain to superhero.
After the rather unsavoury exit as Australia’s head coach two years ago, this is Justin Langer’s first opportunity at coaching at a high level, or any level for that matter.
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