Category: Women’s cricket

The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel has named 30 players for an estimated month-long West Indies Women’s high-performance camp to be held in Antigua starting on May 2. This will be the second such month-long camp in 2021 assembled under the guidance of Head Coach Courtney Walsh and his support team. With the ICC...

Instead, a regional Qualifying tournament to determine which island will compete at the Games will have to be staged by Cricket West Indies (CWI). Under the International Cricket Council (ICC), West Indies compete as a single entity but the Games is not an ICC-organised event. Ten sovereign states make up the West Indies, plus a...

BCB/Nand Persaud 30 overs’ female tournament…– NA/Canje to play WCB for runners-up position The West Indies trio of Erva Giddings, Sheneta Grimmond and Shabika Gajnabi, together with national off-spinner Plaffina Millington, where the outstanding players as defending champions Rose Hall Town (RHT) Metro easily retained their status as holders of the BCB/Nand Persaud 30 overs’...

BCB/Nand Persaud 30-Over tournament…Story and photos by Brandon Corlette West Indies Women’s player Shabika Gajnabi hit an impressive 108 against New Amsterdam/Canje in yesterday’s fixture of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) Nand Persaud 30-Over tournament played at Area ‘H’ ground in Rose Hall Town.Gajnabi’s innings propelled the Rose Hall Town (RHT) Metro ladies’ team to...

Shemaine Campbelle, Stafanie Taylor and Afy Fletcher showed their experience and skill with some excellent batting as the West Indies women held their second intra-squad match at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Friday. Team One captained by Hayley Matthews posted 167-9 from their 50 overs with Taylor playing a patient knock of 42 from...

Twenty-Four (24) leading West Indies Women cricketers, including the five Guyanese; Shemaine Campbell, Sheneta Grimmond, Shabika Gajnabi, Cherry-Ann Fraser and Kaysia Schultz, will gather in Antigua from this weekend, for a training camp which bowls off on Sunday at The Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG). The camp will be the first face-to-face assignment with the players...

By Brandon Corlette Kaysia Schultz, the 23-year-old Guyanese left-arm spinner, remains motivated and hopeful of an international debut for the West Indies Women team. Schultz was a member of the West Indies Women’s squad that toured England; unfortunately, she did not get an opportunity to debut. In a recent interview with this publication, Schultz disclosed...

West Indies Women have looked out-of-sorts in the recently concluded T20 series in England, where they lost all five of their matches.Their batting has been the poorest of the three departments. Deandra Dottin has been exceptional in scoring 185 runs in five matches. The next highest run-getter was Stafanie Taylor, who scored only 78 runs...

Cricket West Indies (CWI) today named Courtney Walsh as the new Head Coach of the West Indies Women’s team. The West Indies cricket legend will lead the preparation and development of the Women’s Team at least up until the end of 2022, including competing in the next International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Cricket World Cup...

By Brandon Corlette The West Indies Women are on the brink of a series defeat, having lost the first two matches in the five-match T20 series against England. In the third match, which is slated to bowl off from 8:00h today (Saturday, September 26), the West Indies Women will be aiming to turn things around....