This guy can thwack the ball real hard. Being really really short and stubborn, this guy charges a full speed Brett Lee delivery and makes contact on a regular basis. It still is early days for him, but what I see is good, as he read the slower ball too.
Some hope for West Indies Cricket, apart from Chrab of course.
Talking about chrab, his leadership skills have been praised by many, and his batting, well, he has averaged about 75 over the past two seasons in test cricket, the entire dough is more cleverly pointed out by my friend here.

When I feel that a test match could become interesting, I normally keep a tab on all the factors affecting the match. Weather is one of the most important factors affecting a match. 
I Bring to you : Georgetown Weather. Everyone stand up and clap
A tropical wave is affecting the island.

Generally cloudy to overcast with showers and isolated thunderstorms at first, becoming mostly fair by late afternoon. Tonight: Mainly fair.In-depth weather discussion

Waiting for Day 2

I am so feeling I told you so right now. But not quite. 300 is still gettable. The Aussies reached 226/7 at the end of day 1. It could have been more, but it rained, and then it rained again. Symonds played his restrained-affluent best ad scored 67.
Beau Casson is in! This has been the happiest day in my blogging career. I finally got to see Beau on TV. After all the hype and the like, he appeared to be calm and collected. He batted much better then Stuey for sure. The bowling remains to be seen. I so hope …read more

There is something about the cricket in the Caribbean, you don’t know whether its happening or not. Some people say that the World Cup is still on there with fat dudes playing and talking diving catches at first slip.
Here are a few stories coming from the land where the world cup is always on:

Brett Lee is tired: He doesn’t say it, but Punter does
Kamran Dropmal has a mate : Brad Haddin is feeling the heat, though I dunno how you do that against the current West Indies team.
Gayle is Back : Being a Knight Rider was never so cool; after …read more

West Indies v Australia, 1st Test, Jamaica, 5th day
It was a fighting match. Just that the West Indies were fighting as soon as Ponting made 150 on the first day. In the end, needing 240 odd to win on the last day, they succumbed to the accuracy of Stuart Clark, Brett Lee and Stuart McGill and ended the innings at 191, 96 runs short.
Clark returned with a five-for. Mc Grath II seems to be learning fast. From the West Indies, Ramdin the little keeper showed sparks of guts with his 36 of 61 balls, but when he was out, …read more

Eat Cricket, Drink Cricket, Sleep Cricket
After India’s T20 championship victory, Andrew Symonds said something along the lines of T20 being a format where “the lesser sides can beat you easily”. Of course, Australia lost to Zimbabwe and then India, the two lesser sides he was referring to.

India has since kept Australia on toes in T20, and they seem to be innately made for this version.
Further, SA just lost to Windies in a T20 tie, and it wasn’t a close match by any means.
Could there be any truth to what Roy said?

Brian Lara has announced that he is to come out of retirement to join the Indian Cricket League, the league that has “broken away” from International cricket, and is not recognised by the ICC. Lara, who announced his retirement from all forms of the game after the dismal World Cup, will certainly be one of the ICL’s biggest scalps, but questions must be raised over his motivation. Is it that he misses the game – or is he in it for the money?
Either way, it feels like the final nail in the coffin for a man whose career sadly slipped …read more

Two Twenty20’s and two one day Internationals down and… scores are level. England and the West Indies are so evenly matched that there’s very little to separate them. And that’s not saying we’ve had four tense and exciting games – quite the opposite, in fact. Rather, we’ve been treated to four very one sided affairs, where one side showed the type of talent of which you would expect of a top side, whilst the other under-performed hideously. In fact, it is this ‘talent’ that ties to the sides so closely together, that is, the talent of inconsistency.
It’s all a bit …read more

After Vaughan quit as captain of the one day side, all eyes were on who would be named as captain. Speculation was spot on as it was eventually given to Paul Collingwood. Irony abounds, considering that Collingwood was the most-oft picked player for the chop during England’s recent “down-time”. Fortunately, the crazy men have seen sense and realised that Vaughan can’t play one day cricket and it was time for a change. In fact, Vaughan wasn’t the only one for the chop, as Strauss similarly got the arse.
Whether or not the twin-captain set up will be effective is still up …read more

I didn’t know if it needed saying again – Kevin Pietersen is not yet the finished article. Sure, he might be rated the best batsmen in the world, sure, he might be feared, and sure, he did have a pretty good test series against the West Indies, but he is still not yet the type of player of which he is capable of becoming. Graham Gooch gave KP a verbal blowjob in naming him at the top of England’s series rankings, saying:
He is learning to add composure and innings management to his undoubted stroke-making skills and his double century was …read more