England will make an announcement on Friday about whether injured all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will return home from the tour of the Caribbean. Flintoff is not playing in the fourth Test in Barbados after suffering a hip injury during the drawn third Test in Antigua last week.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle has been named captain of Stanford Superstars, which will face England in the 20-million-dollar Stanford Twenty20 match on November 1. The left-hand opening batsman will have Antigua and Barbuda captain Sylvester Joseph as his deputy.
The $20 million winner-takes-all Twenty20 Stanford match between England and a West Indies team will go ahead in Antigua on Nov. 1, the BBC reported on Thursday. The BBC quoted tournament organisers as saying a dispute between the organisers and the sponsors of West Indies' cricket had been resolved.
The 16-member Indian squad led by Virat Kohli left for the West Indies to engage the hosts in a four-Test rubber later this month and in August.
The Antigua Recreation Ground has been the scene of some magnificent batting performances and while Andrew Strauss's 169 on Sunday was not of the magnitude of some, the value of the innings to England was immeasurable. After the tourists were dismissed for a woeful 51 in their innings and 23 run defeat to West Indies in Kingston last week, the team and their captain badly needed a convincing performance in the rescheduled third Test of the series.
The second Test between West Indies and England was embarrassingly abandoned after 10 balls on Friday because of the state of the outfield at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. Match referee Alan Hurst told a news conference play would resume, officially as the third Test of what will now be a five-Test series, on Sunday at the Antigua Recreation Ground -- the island's old Test venue.
Test cricket on Sunday said farewell and thanks to Steve Bucknor, the most experienced umpire to date in the longest form of the game. The 62-year-old Jamaican umpired his final Test match at Newlands in Cape Town between South Africa and Australia, his 128th match in the middle. Bucknor has been umpiring at international level since 1989 when he took charge of the One-Day International (ODI) between the West Indies and India at the Antigua Recreation Ground on March 18.
England captain Eoin Morgan blazed a fluent 107 to help secure a 45-run victory over West Indies in the first one-day international at a windy Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting admitted his team's attack was "not good enough" to bowl out West Indies on the final day of the drawn second Test in Antigua on Tuesday. West Indies batted all day for the loss of five wickets to avoid defeat in a game Australia dominated with Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul sharing a particularly stubborn partnership.
A World Trade Organization (WTO) arbitrator on Friday pronounced that Antigua and Barbuda can slap trade retaliatory measures against the world's mightiest power - the United States - to the tune of $21 million because of the loss of benefits the two countries suffered due to the restrictions imposed by Washington on cross-border supply of gambling and betting services on the Internet.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will miss the fourth Test against West Indies in Barbados starting on Thursday because of a right hip injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Saturday. A scan on Friday revealed Flintoff, who was troubled by the injury in the drawn third Test in Antigua this week, has strained a muscle.
England captain Andrew Strauss, in charge of his first tour, is learning the lessons of captaincy the hard way after suffering two hard-to-take results against West Indies in his opening Tests.
England head into the final day of the third Test against West Indies seven wickets away from a victory that would tie the five-game series at 1-1. England captain Andrew Strauss set West Indies a mammoth target of 503 to win after declaring at 221 for eight at the Antigua Recreation Ground on Wednesday and then picked up three wickets as the hosts reached 143-3 at the close.
England's bowlers will have a clear target to aim at when they seek more bad behaviour from the pitch on day three of the third Test against West Indies.
England, stunned by their humiliating opening loss to West Indies, face a test of character when the series resumes on Friday, all-rounder Andrew Flintoff said.
West Indies have dropped batsman Xavier Marshall for Friday's second Test against England in Antigua and drafted in Lendl Simmons.
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Pacer Umesh Yadav says he has regained confidence after working on his erratic line and length in the time away from the Indian team and is confident of making the playing eleven in the two-Test series against West Indies.
Bravo, 29, has not played a Test for West Indies since 2016, when his contract was suspended for a social media post criticising board president Dave Cameron.
It's not everyday that an Indian bowling attack is touted as favourites going into an away series but Craig McDermott feels that Ishant Sharma's "workhorse" like ability will give Virat Kohli the edge against the West Indies in an away Test series.
Sachin Tendulkar described Anil Kumble as a great player who will be an inspiration for generations to come. "It's truly an honour and privilege to have played in the same era. He will remain an inspiration for the next generations. To become another Anil Kumble one will have to work really, really hard," he said.
The Stanford Superstars scooped the richest prize in cricket after crushing England by 10 wickets in a one-sided Twenty20 $20 million (12.4 million pound) challenge in Antigua on Saturday. The West Indian select team bowled England out for 99 in the last of their 20 overs and then raced to their target with seven overs to spare led by captain Chris Gayle, who ended unbeaten on 65 after finishing the match with a six.
England will play a Caribbean all-star team in a Twenty20 match for a record prize pot of $20 million on November 1.
Opening batsmen Chris Gayle and Sewnarine Chattergoon return to the West Indies squad for the third and final Test against Australia at the Kensington Oval next week.
West Indies have been fined for slow over rate for the second consecutive game after the drawn second Test against Australia.
Kevin Pietersen launched an impassioned defence of Test cricket on Monday, less than two weeks before he will lead England in the US $20 million Twenty20 Stanford match. England face a West Indies select team in Antigua on November 1 in the winner-takes-all game where each victorious player will walk away with $1 million.
Ricky Ponting [Images] passed the 10,000 Test runs mark and Simon Katich scored an unbeaten 113 as Australia scored 259 for three on the first day of the second Test on Friday.
Opening batsman Matthew Hayden will miss the rest of Australia's tour of the Caribbean due to injury.
West Indies have replaced wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin with Shane Dowrich for the four-Test series at home to India.
The $20 million Twenty20 Stanford match between England and an all-star West Indies team could be in doubt after the Caribbean islands' board lost a High Court case.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's late assault and some fine bowling by the spinners saw India crush West Indies by 93 runs in the third One-Day International at North Sound in Antigua, on Friday.
Wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi is to join the Australian side in the West Indies as cover for Brad Haddin, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Friday. Haddin broke a finger on his right hand during the first Test against West Indies in Jamaica and played with the injury during the drawn second Test in Antigua.
The match is being organised to raise funds for stadia in the Caribbean, which were damaged due to hurricanes last year.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Tuesday announced the details of England's tour to West Indies next year when they will play four tests, five one-dayers and a Twenty20 match.
Former England batsman Graham Thorpe believes Virender Sehwag's innings of 319 was more destructive than the two record-breaking knocks by Brian Lara.
Grenada smashed US Virgin Islands 10-0 while Suriname trounced Montserrat 7-1 in the CONCACAF preliminary round football World Cup qualifiers. Elsewhere, Antigua beat Aruba 1-0 despite having three players sent off and missing a penalty while Belize held out for a 1-1 draw away to St Kitts & Nevis to earn a prestigious tie against Mexico.
Twenty20 World champions India have been invited by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford to play a USD 5 million winner-take-all match against the Stanford Super Star team in June next year.
The winners of Monday's Twenty20 World Cup final between India and Pakistan will be invited to play in a $5 million match against the Stanford Super Team in the West Indies next year.
