Evin Lewis has been named as the replacement for Lendl Simmons in the West Indies squad for the International Cricket Council’s World Twenty20 Tournament. The 24-year-old left-handed batsman will join the team ahead of the start of the global event. He is yet to play at the international level. He has represented Trinidad & Tobago
West Indies arrived here early yesterday from Dubai to begin their final preparations for the Twenty20 World Cup set to bowl off today. The 2012 champions spent the last two weeks in a preparation camp in United Arab Emirates where they also played four unofficial T20 warm-up games – two against Zimbabwe in Sharjah and
Shabnim Ismail’s three wickets in seven balls and Dane van Niekerk’s two in an over helped South Africa Women defend 125, which seemed a sub-par total, and claim their first-ever Twenty20 win over West Indies Women. South Africa’s victory, which comes two weeks after they achieved the same feat over England, bodes well ahead of
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons says his players will use warm-up matches against English County Warwickshire this weekend, to ramp up their fielding arsenal in preparation for the T20 World Cup starting next week in India. West Indies start a two-match series against Warwickshire on Friday at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium after thrashing Zimbabwe
During the last year Leon Johnson’s stature as Captain and batsman in West Indies Cricket has been growing rapidly and the 28-year-old is quietly confident of regaining his Test place in the near future. “I think my chances of getting back in the West Indies side are good at the moment but nothing in life
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