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Sports Magazine
‘It’s nothing we can control’
– Grenadian Olympic gold medalist James
taking Tokyo postponement in stride
Story on pg. 2
MARCH 2021
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Prime Ministers of Grenada
Dr. The Right Hon. Keith Mitchell
(1995–2008 and 2013)
The Hon. George Brizan, CMG, MP
(February 1995–June 1995)
The Hon. Ben Jones, MP., JP
(1989–1990)
Cde Maurice Bishop
Revolutionary Leader
(1979–1983)
Grenada Governors-General
Dame Cécile La Grenade
2013 to Present
Sir Daniel Williams
1996–2008
The Hon. Tillman Thomas
(2008–2013)
The Right Hon. Sir Nicholas
Brathwaite KT., OBE, MP
(1983–1984 and 1990–1995)
The Right Hon. Herbert
Blaize, MP, JP (1984–1989)
The Right Hon.
Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, KT., MP
(1974–1979)
Sir Carlyle Glean
2008–2013
Sir Reginald Palmer
1992–1996
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Contents
30 years
Contents
2 ‘It’s nothing we can control’
– Grenadian Olympic gold
medalist James taking Tokyo
postponement in stride
4 Wayde van Niekerk moves
from famed coach, heads to
U.S.
6 India vs England 4th Test
7 42 nd Anniversary of the
Revolution
13 West Indies beat Sri Lanka
by 3 wickets, take T20 series
2–1
14 ICC Rankings
15 Men’s T20WC 2021 in India,
2022 in Australia; Women’s
CWC postponed
16 West Indies squad named
for first Test against Sri
Lanka
3 Sri Lanka Test Squad for Tour
of West Indies 2021
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‘It’s nothing we can control’
‘It’s nothing we can control’
– Grenadian Olympic gold medalist James
taking Tokyo postponement in stride
Grenadian Olympic gold
medallist Kirani James admits
to being uneasy over
the uncertainly surrounding the
rest of the track and field season
but does not believe he will be
severely impacted by the cancellation
of the Olympic Games this
year.
After months of deliberation and
some amount of hesitance, the
International Olympic Committee
(IOC) announced that the Games
would be pushed forward by a
year, as the world struggles to
come to grips with the effects of
the coronavirus pandemic.
For thousands of athletes around
the world, the news would come
as a hammer blow with months of
preparation upended and a year
added to a chance to shine at athletics
signature events. For some,
already struggling to make a final
appearance due to aging, aching
limbs it was even a tougher pill to
swallow. The 27-year-old James,
who is already a World and Olympic
champions, does not fall into
that category.
“I don’t think so (Impacts chance
of medaling at next Olympics), at
least not right now. It is what it is,”
the former University of Alabama
sprinter told TideSports.
“It’s not the fault of anything we
can control. We just take it as what
it is and try our best to prepare.
That’s the decision they came to
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Grenada sprinter Kirani James
and we have to accept it. We have
to prepare as best as we can.”
Like the majority, he believes it
was a necessary evil.
“The way I see it is, for them to
postpone it, they’re taking this
pandemic very seriously and I’m
sure if there was a way where they
could keep it for this year, they
would have. Obviously, they exhausted
all their options. It is what
it is. At the end of the day, safety
and health trumps the Olympics
every time,” he added.
James won the 400m gold medal
at the 2012 Olympics in London,
after claiming gold at the World
Championships one year prior.
The sprinter then went on to claim
silver behind world-record breaker
Wayde van Niekerk at the 2016
Rio Olympic Games. James saw
his career severely hampered after
being diagnosed with Graves’
disease. He has since recovered
and was confident things were
progressing well for Tokyo before
the delays.
“Training was good. It was very
consistent, the workouts and
everything. Really it was just gearing
up for the start of the season in
April. Everything was on track.”
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Wayde van Niekerk moves from
famed coach, heads to U.S.
Wayde van Niekerk, who
won the 2016 Olympic
400m in world-record
time, is leaving South Africa and
his longtime coach, 79-year-old
Ans Botha, to join Noah Lyles‘
training group in Florida.
“As much as I have enjoyed my
experience with Tannie Ans and
her group, I am hoping to break
my world record (43.03 seconds)
and to do that I need to ensure I
am training alongside the world’s
best sprinters,” van Niekerk said
in a press release. “So I feel a temporary
move to the United States
will be in my best interests for the
immediate future.”
Coach Lance Brauman leads
Lyles’ group, which also includes
Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo,
also a Rio Olympic 400m champion.
Van Niekerk and Lyles are not expected
to be in direct individual
competition in Tokyo. Lyles runs
the 100m and 200m. Van Niekerk,
though he won the 2017 World
200m silver medal in Lyles’ injury-forced
absence, is expected to
stick to the 400m this summer.
Van Niekerk, 28, will reassess his
future plans after the Tokyo Olympics.
The move is reminiscent of 2016,
when van Niekerk spent part of
the build-up to the Rio Games by
training with Usain Bolt‘s group
in Jamaica. Then he stunned the
world in the Olympic 400m final,
breaking Michael Johnson‘s
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17-year-old world record out of
lane eight.
Breaking the world record again
would be an even greater feat given
van Niekerk’s obstacles the last
three and a half years.
On Oct. 7, 2017, he tore the ACL
and meniscus in his right knee
playing in a celebrity tag rugby
match in Cape Town. It was a
non-contact injury, and he walked
off the Newlands Stadium field,
albeit in pain. Van Niekerk discussed
that day and its effects on
his career last year.
Van Niekerk didn’t race again until
February 2019 and, after recovery
setbacks, still hasn’t competed
outside of small meets in South
Africa and Europe.
His best 400m time since the injury
and operation is 45.58, ranking
outside the top 70 in the world
since the start of 2019.
The Tokyo Olympic favorites are
Michael Norman, the fastest man
in this Olympic cycle at 43.45, and
Bahamian Steven Gardiner, who
won the 2019 World title in 43.48.
Van Niekerk’s world record in Rio
became even more magnetic with
the sight of Botha in the stands.
The grandmother coached him
since 2012, when he enrolled as a
marketing student at the University
of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
“I have such a big responsibility to
get this athlete to develop to his
full potential,” Botha said in 2015,
when van Niekerk clocked 43.48
to win the world title and ran himself
into such exhaustion that he
was taken in an ambulance to a
hospital.
“I can’t express the gratitude I
have for everything she has done
to help me get to this point in my
career,” was posted on van Niekerk’s
Twitter on Friday. “I’m really
going to miss Tannie but she will
always be my mentor!”

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India vs England
4th Test:
India Crush England to Win Series 3–1,
Qualify for World Test Championship Final
India defeated England by an innings
and 25 runs in the fourth
and final Test to win the fourmatch
series 3-1 and seal a place
in the final of the inaugural edition
of the World Test Championship
on Saturday. Rishabh Pant (101)
and Washington Sundar (96 not
out) set up the huge win for India
after the hosts had bowled the
visitors out for 205 in their first innings.
Ravichandran Ashwin and
Axar Patel picked up five-wicket
hauls in the second innings to help
India bundle England out for 135.
India started Day 3 at 294 for seven,
and Axar Patel along with Sundar
continued to score freely in the
first hour on Saturday.
The duo put on 106 runs for the
eighth wicket before a mix-up in
the middle ended Axar’s stay. He
was run out on 43.
Ben Stokes then cleaned up Ishant
Sharma and Mohammed Siraj inside
four deliveries to leave Sundar
stranded on 96 as England took
the last three wickets in five deliveries
to bowl India out for 365.
Stokes was the pick of the bowlers
for England as he returned
with figures of four for 89.
He was ably supported by James
Anderson who took three for 44
but their spinners disappointed on
a surface that offered some turn
and bounce.
In the second essay, the hosts
came out to bowl with a healthy
lead of 160.
England negotiated the last few
minutes before Lunch without losing
any wickets but Ravichandran
Ashwin picked up two wickets in
two balls to rock the visitors in the
post-lunch session.
Axar Patel soon joined in the action
and removed Dom Sibley and
Ben Stokes in quick succession.
Joe Root was looking good during
his short stay in the middle but he
misjudged a length delivery from
Ashwin and was trapped in front
of the stumps.
Both teams will now shift their focus
to the shortest format of the
game as they will play five Twenty20
Internationals at the same
venue, starting March 12.

42 nd Anniversary
of the Revolution
Focusing on Health, Education and the Economy
March 13th 2021 marks the
42nd Anniversary of the
first ever revolution in the
English speaking Caribbean – and
arguably the world! - and its positive
memories continue to be kept
alive by the Grenada Revolution
Celebrations Committee (GRCC).
GRCC comprises a wide grouping
of individuals and organizations, including
the locally based Grenada
Revolution Memorial Foundation
(GREMFO), seeking to preserve
the many positives of the revolution
and promoting healthy debate
on issues arising in that era. Representatives
on the committee for
the 2021 celebrations extend to as
far as Germany. Major centres like
New York, London and Toronto are
all represented.
Global Virtual Forum
A global virtual forum forms the
centerpiece of this year’s celebrations,
under the theme “Celebrating
the Grenada Revolution in the times
NJM supporters and NLA fighters gathered at Radio Free Grenada on the morning of 13 March 1979.
Photo courtesy of the Grenada National Museum
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Brian Francis, former Permanent
Secretary/Director-General in the
Ministry of Finance in Grenada; Educator
Anne Hickling-Hudson, a
Jamaican and current Professor
of Education in the School of Cultural
and Professional Learning at
Queensland University of Technology
(QUT) in Australia; and Public
Health Specialist Dr. Sonia Nixon,
the current Chair of the Grenada
Cancer Society.
Grenada Marketing and National Importing Board (GMNIB) – Grenville Retail Outlet
of Covid: Focusing on the Economy,
Education, Health and People’s
Participation”. This article is being
written on the verge of the virtual
forum which attracts an immensely
impressive line up: Economist Dr
A formidable line-up addresses a
most pertinent topic. The areas featured
hold many lessons for today’s
Grenada but the Caribbean as a
whole, especially in these Covid
times.
Tough Covid Times…
It is now approximately one year
since Grenada and the rest of the
National Insurance Scheme (NIS)
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Caribbean – and indeed the entire
world! – has been feeling the impact
of Covid. While Grenada has
fared well compared to many of its
Caribbean neighbours, we will continue
to feel the impact, directly and
indirectly, in the months and years
ahead. Significantly decreased revenue,
job losses, rotation of workers,
reduction of salaries, decline
in tourism, and closure of businesses
are all common features
of this Covid period. Both children
and parents, especially working
parents, feel the impact of home
schooling, constant virtual learning,
and the drastic reduction in face to
face schooling at traditional school
compounds.
As a people we have faced adversity
in the past and overcome it on
every single occasion: from slavery,
through colonialism, statehood, independence,
revolution, invasion…
not to mention natural disasters
like Hurricanes Janet (1955), Ivan
(2004) and Emily.
So to shall we overcome the challenges
of Covid. In fact, the objective
must be to turn the challenges
into opportunities.
People’s Participation
– A Hallmark of the
Revolution
One of the hallmarks of the revolution
was peoples participation – in
zonal and parish councils, in mass
organizations of pioneers, youth
and women, in the National Students
Council, in the Trade Union
Movement, in community work.
People engaged, people volun-
The period calls for unity, creativity,
organization, mobilization, visionary
leadership, strategic planning, and
peoples participation. It requires
the rekindling of the patriotic spirit
and the injection of a collective
approach to problem solving. Our
leaders, political and otherwise,
must inspire and motivate our people
to work towards the common
good of humanity.
Converting Challenges
to Opportunities
As of March 11th, 2021 the covid
cases continued to rise around the
world, though at a reduced rate. Total
cases worldwide numbered 119
million, with 2.64 million deaths,
and 94.71 million cases recovered.
In the United States alone, the number
of cases exceeded 29.9 million,
with over 543 million deaths.
In the Caribbean, while Grenada
was able to maintain the very impressive
figure of zero (0) for several
weeks, St Vincent, St Lucia
and Jamaica raged in the opposite
direction, with figures spiraling, at
times seemingly out of control.
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teered, people came out on weekends
to do community work, people
were directly involved in building
their communities and ultimately
the country.
Participatory democracy flourished,
daily, weekly, monthly – not for five
seconds every 5 years. People felt
a sense of ownership of problems.
Never before or after was there such
an explosion of peoples power.
Several of the critical programme of
the revolution centered on peoples
involvement.and were designed to
protect the poor and vulnerable in
society.
Training Teachers
Through NISTEP
The NISTEP programme involved
the part-time training of teachers
over a three (3) year period to enable
them to achieve basic professional
qualifications. Hundreds of
untrained teachers journeyed to
the Teachers College in Tanteen,
St. George’s, one day a week for
all day lectures. To accommodate
everybody, half received their instruction
on Thursdays and the
other half on Fridays. On the other
days the teachers in training taught
their classes under the watchful
eyes of highly professional and
experienced tutors. These tutors
monitored the implementation of
lessons.
The benefits were double fold: the
untrained teachers received, over
the period, the same number of
hours of theoretical instructions as
teachers doing the fulltime training
course; and they (the untrained
teachers) would have significantly
more supervised practical training
experience. In that way all
untrained teachers had the opportunity
to be fully trained without
significant disruption instructions of
the classroom.
What happened though to the thousands
of school children affected
by the absence of the teachers on
Thursdays and Fridays? The PRG
created an ingenious solution in another
programme – the Community
School Day Programme (CSDP).
Community and School
Connecting Through
CSDP
The CSDP complemented NISTEP.
It became yet another example of
the PRG’s creativity in solving problems
. through people’s involvement.
Under the CSDP, parents
and skilled persons from the communities
surrounding each school
were brought into the classroom to
engage the students in a wide range
of work and life skills, in addition to
sporting and cultural activities. The
community and the school became
more connected.
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The CSDP was one of the ingenious
programmes of the PRG, possibly
without precedent at the time.
When community meets school,
and all teachers receive training,
wonders result..
Protecting the Poor and
Vulnerable Through the
National House Repair
Programme
Under the National House Repair
(NHR) programme, very low income
workers were able to access a loan
from the Government to effect repairs
to their homes. It was another
unique programme in the Caribbean
at that time, and further demonstrated
the PRG’s concern for the
poor and vulnerable.
Loan repayment terms were unbelievable:
10 years to repay, no interest,
monthly payments of $2.00
to $5.00; and only 2/3 of the loan
required to be repaid.
Where else in the world, during that
period, could one get a loan on
those terms? The programme was
based on voluntary labour, a revolving
fund, and the bulk purchase of
materials to obtain the best possible
price.
It is estimated that between 15 and
20 percent of all Grenadian households
benefited from the PRG’s
house repair programme. In three
(3) years, a total of 2,686 households
received loans. That figure
represented the bottom 12.2 percent
of all households at the time,
or 13,430 Grenadians.
Protecting Pregnant
Women with Maternity
Leave Law
Before the Revolution, pregnant
women were constantly exposed to
the risk of dismissal. Returning to
work after proceeding on maternity
leave depended entirely on the attitude
of the employer. No protection
existed for the employee. Get pregnant
and risk dismissal.
In 1980 the PRG proclaimed Peoples
Law No 53, the Maternity Leave
Law, which brought significant benefits
to pregnant working women.
It provided Maternity Leave for all
working women, whether single or
married, and protected them from
dismissal due to pregnancy. It guaranteed
at least twelve (12) weeks
maternity leave for all women, with
eight (8) weeks full pay.
A pregnant woman became entitled
to Maternity Leave upon completion
of eighteen (18) months
continuous service to the same
employer. In the case of daily paid
workers, the woman ought to have
worked with the same employer
for 105 days within that period of
eighteen months.
The Maternity Leave Law represented
a significant step forward for
women in Grenada.
Strengthening
Productive Capacity
In just four short years, the PRG
was able to reduce employment
from 49% to 14%; ; establish 44
state enterprises, embracing Agriculture,
Agro-Industries, Tourism,
Manufacturing and Financial Services;
grow the econ0my from 2%
in 1980 to 5.5% in 1982; build an
International Airport to provide the
gateway to Grenada’s economic
future; established two local banks,
the Grenada Bank of Commerce
(GBC) and the National Commercial
Bank (NCB);
1981, declared the Year of Agriculture
& Agro-Industries, saw the
establishment of the Coffee Processing
Plant in Telescope (St.
Andrew’s) and the Agro-Industrial
Plant, producing juices and condiments,
in True Blue.
School fees were gradually reduced
from $50.00 a term in March 1979
($150.00 a year) to, in September
1981, free secondary Education.
The education policy was further
enhanced with the pursuit of Universal
Secondary Education – every
child of school age being given an
opportunity to further his education.
The School Feeding Programme
and the School Books & Uniform
Programme greatly enhanced the
situation with students.
March 13th is Our
History
No doubt the Revolution has
brought lasting benefits to Grenada
and has laid the foundation for its
economic takeoff. The International
Airport, the National Insurance
Scheme (NIS), and the Marketing
National and Importing Board
(MNIB) remain as lasting legacies of
an historic period.
Debates on the Revolution, both its
positive and negative aspects, will
continue for a long time. Whatever
the view, it’s an important period
in our history. It marked a critical
turning point in Grenada’s development.
Should it be declared a public
holiday? Should the Month of
March be our local history month?
Should the revolutionary period
form part of our school’s curriculum?
These are all issues of debate.
In the meantime, let’s celebrate the
good of the revolution!
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Kieron Pollard

West Indies beat Sri Lanka by
3 wickets, take T20 series 2–1
Chasing Sri Lanka’s modest 131-4, the
West Indies were again constrained by
Sri Lanka’s spin attack and came to
the 18th over at 105-7, needing 27 runs from
18 balls.
Chasing Sri Lanka’s modest 131-4, the West
Indies were again constrained by Sri Lanka’s
spin attack and came to the 18th over at 105-
7, needing 27 runs from 18 balls.
Fabian Allen hit three mighty sixes in the 19th
over to help the West Indies to a series-clinching,
three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the
third Twenty20 international on Sunday.
Chasing Sri Lanka’s modest 131-4, the West
Indies were again constrained by Sri Lanka’s
spin attack and came to the 18th over at 105-
7, needing 27 runs from 18 balls.
Captain Jason Holder, cool and with a plan in
mind, blocked out the 18th over, the last from
dangerous spinner Wanindudu Hasaranga,
save for a six from a free hit which helped
break the mounting tension.
With 20 runs needed from the last two overs,
Allen hit sixes from the first, third and last
balls of the 19th over from Akila Dananjaya
to get the West Indies home with an over to
spare to clinch the series 2-1.
Allen hit 21 runs from six balls and also took
1-13 from four overs to earn player-of-thematch
honors. He said there was no panic in
the West Indies dressing room, even when it’s
biggest hitters failed to fire.
“We have a lot of batting power,” Allen said.
“I told Jason Holder that I’m not comfortable
batting against Hasaranga. So I told him to
bat him out and I’ll be finishing.
“I just backed myself in the end. It was a good
performance overall.”
The match was another low-scoring chapter
in a low-scoring series in which all three
matches were played on spin-friendly pitches
at Coolidge. In the first match, the West
Indies scored 134-6 to overtake Sri Lanka’s
131-9. In the second, Sri Lanka’s 160-6 was
too good for the home side who were all out
for 117.
For the third time in a row, Sri Lanka chose
to bat on winning the toss on Sunday. The
top-order faltered and Sri Lanka found itself
with a constant need to reset or rebuild. After
10 overs, the tourists were only 46-4 and were
under pressure to set a challenging total.
Dinesh Chandimal and Ashen Bandera
stepped up to produce an unbroken partnership
of 85 from 63 balls to lift Sri Lanka to 131
without further loss. Chandimal finished 54
not out from 46 balls and Bandera 44 from 35.
The West Indies made a solid start with Lendl
Simmons (26) and Evin Lewis (21) putting on
38 for the first wicket. Both fell to Hasaranga,
who set in motion a slump in the West Indies
middle order.
Captain Kieron Pollard promoted himself to
No. 4 in the hope of hitting the home team
close to victory but was out for a third-ball
duck. Chris Gayle followed after an unusually
watchful 13 from 20 balls.
Nicholas Pooran made a promising 23 from
18 balls but followed Pollard in falling to paceman
Dushmantha Chameera, who finished
with 2-23 in unhelpful conditions.
Wrist spinner Lackshan Sandakan removed
Rovman Powell (7) and Dwayne Bravo (0)
with consecutive deliveries in the 17th over
and the momentum of the match seemed to
be moving in Sri Lanka’s favor until Powell hit
his team home.
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Men’s Test Team Rankings
Rankings
Pos Team Matches Points Rating
1 India 37 4,455 120
2 New Zealand 27 3,198 118
3 Australia 31 3,498 113
4 England 49 5,174 106
5 Pakistan 26 2,328 90
6 South Africa 29 2,595 89
7 Sri Lanka 33 2,742 83
8 West Indies 28 2,252 80
9 Bangladesh 20 1,020 51
Men’s T20I Team Rankings
Pos Team Matches Points Rating
1 England 28 7,730 276
2 India 41 10,963 267
3 Australia 30 8,005 267
4 Pakistan 32 8,321 260
5 New Zealand 33 8,347 253
6 South Africa 23 5,776 251
7 Bangladesh 20 4,583 229
8 West Indies 29 6,623 228
9 Afghanistan 17 3,882 228
10 Sri Lanka 26 5,924 228
11 Ireland 29 5,513 190
12 Zimbabwe 21 3,984 190
13 UAE 23 4,288 186
14 Scotland 17 3,096 182
15 Nepal 23 4,148 180
16 Papua New Guinea 21 3,769 179
17 Netherlands 26 4,618 178
18 Oman 18 3,169 176
19 Namibia 19 2,980 157
20 Singapore 20 2,835 142
21 Canada 15 1,956 130
22 Qatar 23 2,982 130
23 Hong Kong 23 2,727 119
24 Kenya 12 1,389 116
25 Jersey 21 2,423 115
26 Kuwait 16 1,765 110
27 Italy 10 1,100 110
28 Saudi Arabia 9 965 107
29 Denmark 10 975 98
30 Bermuda 13 1,202 92
31 Uganda 11 985 90
32 Malaysia 29 2,557 88
33 Germany 15 1,304 87
34 United States 11 868 79
35 Ghana 10 773 77
36 Guernsey 13 935 72
37 Botswana 13 934 72
38 Austria 8 553 69
39 Nigeria 16 1,064 67
40 Norway 8 499 62
41 Romania 10 602 60
42 Spain 13 766 59
43 Sweden 3 168 56
44 Tanzania 3 167 56
45 Cayman Islands 8 430 54
46 Argentina 12 610 51
47 Belgium 10 499 50
48 Philippines 5 241 48
49 Bahrain 9 424 47
50 Vanuatu 15 704 47
51 Belize 5 209 42
52 Hungary 4 162 41
53 Malawi 12 476 40
54 Fiji 3 105 35
55 Peru 9 294 33
56 Panama 5 162 32
57 Costa Rica 4 126 32
58 Japan 4 126 32
59 Samoa 7 216 31
60 Czech Republic 16 478 30
61 Mexico 11 320 29
62 Luxembourg 12 301 25
63 Portugal 7 173 25
64 Finland 9 204 23
65 Bulgaria 11 240 22
66 Thailand 14 297 21
67 Isle of Man 4 79 20
68 South Korea 4 78 20
69 Malta 10 166 17
70 Mozambique 12 173 14
71 Brazil 9 123 14
72 Bhutan 7 88 13
73 Sierra Leone 5 61 12
74 Maldives 14 138 10
75 Chile 9 85 9
76 Saint Helena 6 55 9
77 Indonesia 4 19 5
78 Myanmar 6 23 4
79 Gibraltar 7 0 0
80 Gambia 6 0 0
81 China 6 0 0
82 Turkey 5 0 0
83 Eswatini 3 0 0
84 Rwanda 3 0 0
85 Lesotho 3 0 0
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Men’s T20WC 2021
in India, 2022 in
Australia; Women’s
CWC postponed
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The ICC Men’s
T20 World Cup
2020, which was
supposed to be held
in Australia in October-November,
has
been postponed to
2022.
The 2021 edition of the
T20 World Cup, which
was scheduled in India,
will take place as
planned.
The format of the Men’s
T20 World Cup 2021
will remain as it was
for 2020, and all the
teams who qualified
for the 2020 event will
now participate in the
edition in India. A new
qualification process
will be run for the ICC
Men’s T20 World Cup
2022.
All fans who purchased
tickets to the ICC Men’s
T20 World Cup in Australia
will be refunded
in full. More information
for ticket holders is
available here.
The ICC Women’s
Cricket World Cup,
which was pencilled
in for February 2021 in
New Zealand, has been
postponed to February-March
the following
year. The qualification
event to decide the
three remaining teams
to join the hosts and the
top four sides who have
already ensured participation
will take place in
2021.
“There has been no
women’s international
cricket played since the
conclusion of the ICC
Women’s T20 World
Cup earlier this year
and due to the varying
impact of COVID-19
globally that is likely
to remain the situation
for a number of the
teams,” Chief Executive
Manu Sawhney said in
a statement.
“Moving the event by
12 months gives all
competing teams the
chance to play a sufficient
level of cricket
ahead of both the qualification
event and leading
into a Cricket World
Cup so the integrity of
the tournament is maintained.”
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West Indies squad named for
first Test against Sri Lanka
Cricket West Indies (CWI)
Selection Panel announced
the West Indies squad for
the first of the two-match Test
series at home against Sri Lanka.
The Test squad features several
players who recently participated
in the 2-0 victorious Test series in
Bangladesh.
Two senior players who did not
play in the Bangladesh series,
all-rounder Jason Holder and
left-handed batsman Darren Bravo,
have returned to the Test squad
which will be led by Kraigg Brathwaite.
The first Test will be played
at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium
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from March 21-25. The Selection
Panel also named the squad for
the CWI President’s XI to face
Sri Lanka in a two-day warm-up
match at Coolidge Cricket Ground
on March 17-18.
Speaking on the squad, Lead Selector
Roger Harper said:
“It is good to be able to put together
a Test squad with a number
of players coming off very good
performances in their last series in
Bangladesh. Very encouraging. It
is a fantastic opportunity to build
on the good work that was done
in Bangladesh. It is very important
to continue the process of working
hard, playing with great passion,
playing with determination and
a great desire to succeed. Doing
that consistently will bring us the
right results.”
“A number of players seized the
opportunity that the tour of Bangladesh
presented and booked a
place for themselves in the Test
team for this series. This now
means that there is keen competition
for places which should drive
better individual performances
and that of the team. I also think
that these players are looking forward
to displaying their skills on
home soil.”
CWI President’s XI
Squad
Roston Chase (captain)
Darren Bravo
Shamarh Brooks
Shannon Gabriel
Jahmar Hamilton
Keon Harding
Kavem Hodge
Shai Hope
Kyle Mayers
Shayne Moseley
Veerasammy Permaul
Anderson Phillip
Kemar Roach
Following the conclusion of the
President’s XI match Roston
Chase, Jahmar Hamilton and
Chemar Holder will remain as reserves
for the first Test. Jayden
Seales will remain as a developmental
player.

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BATSMEN
nka Test Squad
Indies Test Squad
Indies Cricket Board
ent XI Test Squad
Dimuth Karunaratne (Captain)
Batsman
Oshada Fernando
Batsman
Pathum Nissanka
Batsman
Lahiru Thirimanne
Batsman
Indies ODI Squad
nka T20I & ODI
Roshen Silva
Batsman
Ramesh Mendis
Batsman
Indies T20I Squad
ALL ROUNDER
Dasun Shanaka
Batting Allrounder
Angelo Mathews
Batting Allrounder
Dhananjaya de Silva
Batting Allrounder
WICKET KEEPER
Dinesh Chandimal
WK-Batsman
Niroshan Dickwella (Keeper)
WK-Batsman
BOWLER
Wanindu Hasaranga
Bowler
Vishwa Fernando
Bowler
Suranga Lakmal
Bowler
Asitha Fernando
Bowler
Dushmantha Chameera
Bowler
Lasith Embuldeniya
Bowler