Trinidad and Tobago observes its 59th Independence Day on 31st August. To mark the occasion in a cricketing context, here’s presenting an all-time Trinidadian Test XI, formed from among Trinidadian players who have represented the West Indies in men’s Test cricket. Jeffrey Stollmeyer (32 Tests from 1939 to 1954-55) Stollmeyer was a key part of […]
Read More Specials – An all-time Trinidadian Test XIInternational cricket in Guyana has been synonymous with Bourda in Georgetown for the best part of its cricketing history, and with the Providence Stadium in recent times. However, the first ground in Guyana – and in fact anywhere in the West Indies – to host an ODI match was the Albion Sports Complex in the […]
Read More Specials – Rewind to ODI cricket in BerbiceIn the third part of this series, we embark upon the period during which the West Indies firmly established themselves as the undisputed champions of Test cricket. Openers star in series-clincher – Fourth Test, Headingley, 1976 The in-form Gordon Greenidge (115) and the swashbuckling southpaw Roy Fredericks put the English bowling attack to […]
Read More Specials – West Indian Test wins in England, Part 3
The Cricket Cauldron 