West Indies Championship 4-Day Tournament (2020)

[SillyCowCorner1]

A new domestic first-class season is on the horizon. Guyana Jaguars the defending champs (have won 5 titles in a row). Clearly the favorites. Will be interesting to see how many of our young players step up in this tournament. We need them to take our cricket to the next level.

Here is the schedule that Cricket West Indies have provided:

All matches start 10am local time, unless otherwise stated.

Round 1

January 9 to 12

Hurricanes vs Jaguars – Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua (2 pm daily)

Red Force vs Scorpions – Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad

Volcanoes vs Pride – Arnos Vale Cricket Ground, St. Vincent

Round 2

January 16 to 19

Scorpions vs Volcanoes – Sabina Park, Jamaica

Pride vs Jaguars – Kensington Oval, Barbados

Red Force vs Hurricanes – Brian Lara Cricket Academy

Round 3

January 23 to 26

Jaguars vs Red Force – Guyana National Stadium, Guyana (9:30 am daily)

Scorpions vs Pride – Sabina Park

Volcanoes vs Hurricanes – Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, St. Lucia (2 pm daily)

***BREAK***

Round 4

February 6 to 9

Jaguars vs Scorpions – Guyana National Stadium

Hurricanes vs Pride – Warner Park, St. Kitts

Volcanoes vs Red Force – Windsor Park, Dominica

Round 5

February 13 to 16

Scorpions vs Hurricanes – Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica

Pride vs Red Force – Kensington Oval

Volcanoes vs Jaguars – Grenada National Stadium, Grenada

***BREAK***

Round 6

February 27 to March 1

Scorpions vs Jaguars – Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica

Pride vs Volcanoes – Kensington Oval

Hurricanes vs Red Force – Warner Park

Round 7

March 5 to 8

Red Force vs Pride – Brian Lara Cricket Academy

Volcanoes vs Scorpions – Grenada National Stadium

Jaguars vs Hurricanes – Guyana National Stadium

Round 8

March 12 to 15

Red Force vs Volcanoes – Brian Lara Cricket Academy (2 pm daily)

Hurricanes vs Scorpions – Vivian Richards Cricket Ground

Jaguars vs Pride – Guyana National Stadium (2 pm daily)

***BREAK***

Round 9

March 26 to 29

Pride vs Scorpions – Kensington Oval (2 pm daily)

Hurricanes vs Volcanoes – Vivian Richards Cricket Ground

Red Force vs Jaguars – Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad

Round 10

April 2 to 5

Jaguars vs Volcanoes – Guyana National Stadium

Scorpions vs Red Force – Sabina Park (2 pm daily)

Pride vs Hurricanes – Kensington Oval

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Guyana Jaguars squad for the 1st round game:

Leon Johnson
Tagenarine Chanderpaul
Chandrapaul Hemraj
Anthony Bramble
Raymon Reifer
Kevin Sinclair
Tevin Imlach
Veerasammy Permaul
Christopher Barnwell
Nial Smith
Keon Joseph
Vishaul Singh
Devendra Bishoo
Neil Barry Jr. (Physio)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (assistant coach)
Esaun Crandon (head coach)


It's really frustrating not to see Motie-Kanhai in the team. The other two spinners are his seniors. I guess. It's a mild quandary. All 3 of them from my club.

Go Jaguars! Make it 6 in a row!

 

[ataraxia]

You get 10 rounds? Lucky.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

You get 10 rounds? Lucky.

Yeh man. We need these guys to play as much FC cricket as possible.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

So Darren Bravo gets the captaincy job for the Trinis. Not ball at all. Expecting a monster season from him. Hope Joshua Da Silva rise up this season. Ideally, I would have wanted Amir Jangoo in this team but I think he is in one of the other franchises...

T&T Red Force Squad:
Je*re*my Solozano, Kyle Hope, Dar*ren Bra*vo (capt), Isa*iah Ra*jah, Joshua Da Sil*va, Yan*nick Ot*t*ley, Yan*nic Cari*ah, Akeal Ho*sein, Im*ran Khan, Ter*rance Hinds, Uth*man Muhammed, Odean Smith, Bryan Charles, Kea*gan Sim*mons;

Mervyn Dil*lon (coach), David Fur*longe (man*ag*er), Lyn*don Knights (physio).

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Btw, I am really excited to see Kevin Sinclair in our team. He was part of the WI team that was runner-up in the Colonial Medical 50 over tournament. He is from the same county as me.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

All three matches will be live streamed simultaneously on Windies cricket youtube channel tomorrow. I don't know who the commentators will be, but at the top of my head I expect Fazeer Mohammed, Mason, Joseph 'Reds' Perreira, etc.
There might be a few newbies.

 

[Daemon]

Cricinfo not scoring this weirdly

 

[JOJOXI]

Tight start so far in the Jamaica game, hope to catch some of the final session - and in relation to Cricinfo from what I've seen previously I think they often only score intermittently or at the end of a day's play etc rather then ball-by-ball

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The TT's are starting positively.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Occupying the crease is key, and I'm liking this from two young batsmen: Jeremy Solozano and Keagan Simmons.

Good signs.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Keagan Simmons gonna ton up soon.

Bat long youth.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

We are going well in the first session. 67-0

Hemraj with a run a ball 50. Tage with a Tage like 12 off 61 balls.

 

[Beamer]

We are going well in the first session. 67-0

Hemraj with a run a ball 50. Tage with a Tage like 12 off 61 balls.

Didn't you just know Hemraj would give it away straight after his 50? Such a frustrating batsman.

Have always liked the look of Keegan Simmons. A proper opening batsman who can actually play the short ball.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

27 off 188, no doubt he's a Chanderpaul through and through

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Whoa there, he's bolted!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

TT building a platform for a 400+ score. Disappointed that Keagan Simmons didn't get his 100. On the other hand, captain Darren Bravo with a smart, unbeaten 50*.

Kyle Mayers with the first 100 of the season, but them Bajans got bowled out for 233, at one stage they were 74/7

Finally the Guyana Jaguars batting sluggishly for most of the day, 210/4

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Darren Bravo didn't capitalize in his start. He falls in the 60s.
Joshua Da Silva continues to impress me.

Kraigg Brathwaite fell in the single figures.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Legit impressed by Nial Smith in his first game...he's taken 3 of the four Leewards wickets to have fallen.

Where do Guyana find these natural talent from? Lol

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Leewards in trouble now.

85/5

Real problem for them.