Story Calypso Revival (ICC 2006) WI in PAK Dec 06/ Jan 07

[rabbitoh rob]

Calypso revival

West Indies cricket has been on a steady decline over the past decades, the once feared bowling attack is now nothing more than bunch of pie chuckers. Gone and the days of Holding, Garner, Hall and Marshall striking fear into the hearts of batsman. More recently we saw the great West Indian Spirit of old held together buy Ambrose and Walsh, but now they are also nothing but a distant memory.

Richie Roberts has been named the new coach of West Indies cricket. Is he the man to bring West Indies cricket back to its former glorious self? Only time will tell.

Brain Lara puts his support behind Roberts

I am sure Roberts is is a great coach and we are all 100% behind him. We are all looking to move forward and try to emulate the success of the past starting with our up coming tour of pakistan.

 

[surendar]

Actually Main problem with windies is inconsistency.. Gayle some times get huge score and sometimes shocks every one with getting nothing! Same thing applies to key players!

Anyways Gud Luck with the story also Gud Luck to Windies

 

[plympilgrim]

gud luck with this story hope its a cracker

 

[Super Baz]

looking good mate , good luck with the Windies

 

[rabbitoh rob]

Windies Announce squad to tour Pakistan​

Coach Richie Roberts is please to announce the touring squad to for oneday and test series in Pakistan.​

Brian Lara (captain) No. 9
Age: 37
Tests: 131
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak googly
Highest score: 400*
Test Runs: 11,953
Batting Ave: 52.88
Best Bowling:
Test Wickets:
Bowling Ave:
ODIs: 287
Highest Score: 169
Runs: 10,019
Batting Average: 40.56
Wickets: 4
Best Bowling: 2-5
Bowling Ave: 15.25


Shivnarine Chanderpaul No. 6
Age: 32
Tests: 101
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Highest score: 203*
Test Runs: 6,736
Batting Ave: 44.60
Best Bowling: 1-2
Test Wickets: 8
Bowling Ave: 100.25
ODIs: 205
Highest Score: 150
Runs: 6,229
Batting Average: 37.07
Wickets: 14
Best Bowling: 3-18
Bowling Ave: 44.07


Chris Gayle No. 45
Age: 27
Tests: 64
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Highest score: 317
Test Runs: 4,259
Batting Ave: 38.71
Test Wickets: 53
Best Bowling: 5-34
Bowling Ave: 38.69
ODIs: 155
Highest Score: 153*
Runs: 5,633
Batting Average: 39.39
Wickets: 129
Best Bowling: 5-46
Bowling Ave: 31.96


Ramnaresh Sarwan No. 53
Age: 26
Tests: 65
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Highest score: 261*
Test Runs: 4,268
Batting Ave: 38.80
Test Wickets: 23
Best Bowling: 4-37
Bowling Ave: 45.30
ODIs: 115
Highest Score: 115*
Runs: 3,724
Batting Average: 44.33
Wickets: 10
Best Bowling: 3-31
Bowling Ave: 39.90


Dwayne Bravo No. 47
Age: 23
Tests: 19
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium-fast
Highest score: 113
Test Runs: 1,113
Batting Ave: 32.73
Test Wickets: 39
Best Bowling: 6-55
Bowling Ave: 39.48
ODIs: 56
Highest Score: 112*
Runs: 740
Batting Average: 24.66
Wickets: 56
Best Bowling: 3-14
Bowling Ave: 33.10


Fidel Edwards No 20
Age 24
Tests: 25
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast
Highest score: 20
Test Runs: 131
Batting Ave: 4.36
Test Wickets: 63
Best Bowling: 5-36
Bowling Ave: 44.30
ODIs: 23
Highest Score: 4*
Runs: 18
Batting Average: 6.00
Wickets: 26
Best Bowling: 6-22
Bowling Ave: 32.26

Jerome Taylor No. 75
Age: 22
Tests: 10
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast
Highest score: 23
Test Runs: 109
Batting Ave: 8.38
Test Wickets: 31
Best Bowling: 5-50
Bowling Ave: 33.19
ODIs: 25
Highest Score: 9
Runs: 25
Batting Average: 6.25
Wickets: 41
Best Bowling: 4-24
Bowling Ave: 24.26



Runako Morton No. 37
Age: 28
Tests: 6
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Highest score: 70*
Test Runs: 235
Batting Ave: 26.11
Test Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:
ODIs: 31
Highest Score: 110*
Runs: 884
Batting Average: 35.36
Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:

Corey Collymore
Age: 28
Tests: 26
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast-medium
Highest score: 16*
Test Runs: 160
Batting Ave: 8.00
Test Wickets: 82
Bowling Ave: 30.80
Best Bowling: 7-57
ODIs: 77
Highest Score: 13*
Runs: 82
Batting Average: 5.12
Wickets: 77
Best Bowling: 5-51
Bowling Ave: 34.49


Daren Ganga
Age: 27
Tests: 41
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Highest score: 135
Test Runs: 1,938
Batting Ave: 27.29
Test Wickets: 1
Best Bowling: 1-20
Bowling Ave: 106.00
ODIs: 35
Highest Score: 71
Runs: 843
Batting Average: 25.54
Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:

Denesh Ramdin No. 80
Age: 21
Tests: 15
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Wicketkeeper
Highest score: 71
Test Runs: 577
Batting Ave: 26.22
Test Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:
ODIs: 18
Highest Score: 74*
Runs: 300
Batting Average: 30.00
Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:

Omari Banks
Age: 24
Tests: 10
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Test Runs: 318
Highest score: 50*
Batting Ave: 26.50
Test Wickets: 28
Best Bowling: 4-87
Bowling Ave: 48.82
ODIs: 5
Highest Score: 33
Runs: 83
Batting Average: 16.60
Wickets: 7
Best Bowling: 2-24
Bowling Ave: 27.00



Daren Powell No. 39
Age: 28
Tests: 19
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast-medium
Test Runs: 167
Highest score: 16
Batting Ave: 5.75
Test Wickets: 47
Best Bowling: 7-114
Bowling Ave: 42.68
ODIs: 11
Highest Score: 6
Runs: 14
Batting Average: 3.50
Wickets: 8
Best Bowling: 3-33
Bowling Ave: 52.50



Lendl Simmons No. 54
Age: 21
Tests: 0
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm offbreak
Test Runs:
Highest score:
Batting Ave:
Test Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:
ODIs: 4
Highest Score: 70
Runs: 91
Batting Average: 22.75
Wickets:
Best Bowling:
Bowling Ave:

Ian Bradshaw No. 46
Age: 31
Tests: 5
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Left-arm fast-medium
Best Bowling: 3-73
Highest score: 33
Test Wickets: 9
Test Runs: 96
Batting Ave: 13.71
Bowling Ave: 60.00
ODIs: 56
Highest Score: 37
Runs: 245
Batting Average: 12.25
Wickets: 74
Best Bowling: 3-15
Bowling Ave: 26.90

Dave Mohammed
Age: 27
Tests: 5
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Left-arm chinaman
Test Runs: 225
Highest score: 52
Batting Ave: 32.14
Test Wickets: 13
Best Bowling: 4-186
Bowling Ave: 51.38
ODIs: 5
Highest Score: 0
Runs: 0
Batting Average:
Wickets: 8
Best Bowling: 3-37
Bowling Ave: 21.25

Marlon Samuels No. 52
Age: 25
Tests: 23
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm off-break
Test Runs: 1,044
Highest score: 104
Batting Ave: 28.21
Test Wickets: 5
Best Bowling: 2-49
Bowling Ave: 140.60
ODIs: 79
Highest Score: 108*
Runs: 1,711
Batting Average: 28.51
Wickets: 51
Best Bowling: 3-25
Bowling Ave: 39.74

Dwayne Smith No. 50
Age: 23
Tests: 10
Test Runs: 320
Highest score: 105*
Batting Ave: 24.61
Test Wickets: 7
Best Bowling: 3-71
Bowling Ave: 49.14
ODIs: 56
Highest Score: 68
Runs: 691
Batting Average: 16.06
Wickets: 38
Best Bowling: 5-45
Bowling Ave: 36.10

 

[kookaburra69]

strong squad their for the windies
should be a close series and will be looking forward to it mate.

 

[Deleted member 13648]

Calypso Revival? As in the ice-cream?

Good start mate I'll follow this.

 

[plympilgrim]

nice start good luck on the tour to pakistan

 

[Jaztheman]

hopefully a new manager, a new decade of wins good luck

 

[mehkar]

good start there mate keep it up

 

[rabbitoh rob]

found my save file for this on a usb, so we are back in action.

 

[freddiw]

awesome it was a good start and dissapeared
good luck

 

[rabbitoh rob]

West Indies slump to a disappointing draw against Rawalpindi​

In the tourists opening and only tour match before the start of the Test series the West Indies were unimpressive in a drawn 3 day match against Rawalpindi. After losing the toss and fielding, the tourist got off to a supurb start having the tourists 6 wickets down in the first two sessions, thanks to some tidy and tight bowling from Bravo and some handy wickets by Dave Mahommad.

However a massive fight back from Ul Haq 249 no and Mahmood 46 saw the locals post an impressive 433.

A poor batting display from the windies saw them bundled out for a ordinary 339 with one session left in the match, stand in captain Sarwan was quick to deflect any negitive talk about his side, claiming it was about experimenting and get a few answer before the first test. Then questioned if he found the answers, he quickly and confidently said "yes, thats all for today, i thank you for your time".

 

[domiw]

good to see your going to continue with this wondeful story on a simply marvelous day

 

[freddiw]

mohammed is a3wesome KUTGQW