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Returned to the Fold
Sun, Jul 20th, 2008Author: Michelle McDonald
While some of his team mates were out enjoying their last night in St Kitts, Xavier Marshall was holed up in his room at the St Kitts Marriott. He had been part of a losing team which was drubbed 5-0 in the just concluded One Day series, and before that, 3-0...
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Steve Bucknor To Be Honored With Golden Bails
Tue, May 9th, 2006Author: Jamaica Cricket Association
Jamaica 's Steve Bucknor will be honoured by the ICC with the presentation of golden bails to acknowledge his 100 th Test match as an international umpire. The occasion will take place during the second Test between India and Pakistan in Kolkata , India from 16 - 20 March....
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Nikita Miller
Sat, Jan 21st, 2006Author: JCA
The West Indies are in dire need of a spinner or two, real spinners who can turn the ball. Not 'lollipop bowlers' as some like to refer to those we have seen recently. Is Nikita Miller the answer? The left arm orthodox spinner from St Elizabeth, in his debut...
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Q&A With Andre Creary
Sat, Jan 21st, 2006Author: JCA
In his first stint as Captain of Jamaica's Under-15 team, Andre Creary led the team to second place behind hosts Trinidad & Tobago. Creary, who was in his second year playing for the team, had a pretty good idea that he would have been named Captain...
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Samuels - I Am So Focused Right Now
Thu, Oct 20th, 2005Author: Michelle McDonald
It can be considered a homecoming of sorts when Marlon Samuels returns to Australia this month to take part in the West Indies ' tour against the top rated Test team. As a 19 year old inexperienced youth drafted into the squad as a replacement for the injured Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the talented right handed batsman got the attention of then Aussie captain Steve Waugh. Waugh's admiration...
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Beckford - I Want To Be Like Shane Warne
Thu, Sep 29th, 2005Author: Michelle McDonald
The ever smiling leg spinner from the parish of 'St Bess' in rural Jamaica, has an even broader grin these days. Alton Beckford got the surprise of his life when he was named in Jamaica's 14 man squad for next week's regional one day tournament in Barbados....
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Nikita Miller After English Leagues 2005
Mon, Sep 26th, 2005Author: Michelle McDonald
Left arm orthodox spinner Nikita Miller is just back from spending his first 'English summer' playing in Foster's Northumberland and Tyneside Senior League. Miller, playing in his first Carib Beer tournament earlier this year, chalked up the most wickets - 39 - and in doing so...
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Q&A With Zeniffe Fowler....
Tue, Sep 20th, 2005Author: Michelle McDonald
After a fairly successful Wilco/Headley Cup schoolboy season, Zeniffe Fowler would have been disappointed with what was to transpire in the 2005 TCL Group West Indies Under 19 Cricket Challenge competition. Fowler, a right handed opening batsman...
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Tony Becca To Retire After World Cup
Tue, Sep 20th, 2005Author: Michelle McDonald
Tony Becca’s fingers will cease typing match reports and articles when the curtain comes down on the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The soon-to-be 65 year old sports journalist, retired from his position as Sports Editor at the Gleaner in 2003. Although the World Cup will signal the end of Becca’s detailed Test match reports and possibly ‘From the Boundary’ commentary pieces which still appear in...
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Jamie Trenchfield - The Evolving of a Leader
Thu, Aug 11th, 2005Author: JCA
He has started out this year’s TCL Group West Indies U-19 Cricket Challenge on a winning note – a well fought victory against arch rivals Trinidad & Tobago. And in his short 17 years, Jamie Trenchfield has had a long record of successful leadership....
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