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Windies domestic one day comp....

garage flower

State Vice-Captain
...starts either tomorrow or Saturday. Anybody else interested in following its progress? Will there be TV coverage in the Caribbean?

As a big Windies fan, I'm looking for a few young players to emerge. In particular, I'm hoping for big performances from:

Xavier Marshall - heavily-hyped Jamaican opener and Windies U19 star.
Denesh Ramdin - Trinidadian 'keeper/batsman who - I think - captained Windies U19s in the last World Cup.
Dwight Washington - Jamaican quick bowler whose action was questioned after he received a Windies call up.
Reon King - back in the Guyana squad. Be interesting to see whether he can bounce back from injury/poor form.

I've tried to follow some of the build up and practice matches over the Web and - hold the front (well, back) page - it appears that Barbados and Jamaica are the pre-tourney favourites.

Trinidad have lost Lara, Dillon, Bravo and Lendl Simmons to injury; preliminary round hosts Guyana will be without Sarwan and the Windwards/Leewards generally lack strength in depth.
 

garage flower

State Vice-Captain
steds said:
Go Gareth Breese!!!
Seems to be a mildly controversial choice as Jamaican captain (named ahead of potential international captains like Gayle and Hinds), but has an excellent domestic record.

I've read that, in a similar vein to the West Indies, Jamaica are quite likely to field just 2 specialist bowlers, given the surfeit of all-rounders they can boast (Breese, Hinds, Gayle, Bernard Jr, Samuels etc).
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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garage flower said:
Seems to be a mildly controversial choice as Jamaican captain (named ahead of potential international captains like Gayle and Hinds), but has an excellent domestic record.

I've read that, in a similar vein to the West Indies, Jamaica are quite likely to field just 2 specialist bowlers, given the surfeit of all-rounders they can boast (Breese, Hinds, Gayle, Bernard Jr, Samuels etc).
I don't really see Gayle as a captain figure. Hinds perhaps, but surely Sarwan is far and away the next in line. Gareth Breese is a top class allrounder in regional cricket. He's not been given a proper international chance yet, but I don't see him as a real threat at that level.
 

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Typically idiotic Trinbagonian batting, trying to make this game a lot harder than it should have been. 8-)

Still, 1 run needed to win with 3 wickets in hand.
 

Kimbo

International Debutant
bugger! i'm supportin the bajans (go antonio mayers.. 23 in this game.. 1 wicket...)
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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Day One Summary

THE 2004 PRESIDENTS CUP

The 2004 Presidents Cup got off to a cracking start in Guyana on Saturday. Matchups between the Windwards and Jamaica and Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago saw severe upsets at the outset.

Read the full CW article here.
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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Guyana beat Windwards in a lowscoring match. Not sure of the scores.

Jamaica 245/9 (50 overs)
Xavier Marshall 64
Wavell Hinds 58
Carlton Baugh 33
Alex Adams 3/39
Tonito Willett 3/47

Leewards were in trouble (37/6 or thereabout), but Banks and Morton belting a century stand from latest reports.
 

Kimbo

International Debutant
Jamaica won my mate said... And heres a quote from Antonio about Barbodos' perfomance against Trinidad an Tobago "It was a really poor performance, an I shouldn't of got out when I did."

well... clearly
 

garage flower

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Mr Mxyzptlk said:
I don't really see Gayle as a captain figure. Hinds perhaps, but surely Sarwan is far and away the next in line. Gareth Breese is a top class allrounder in regional cricket. He's not been given a proper international chance yet, but I don't see him as a real threat at that level.
Not necessarily a personal view with regard to Gayle - I was alluding to Lara's recent comments.
 

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