West Indies

This is Alvin Kallicharran's benefit year with Warwickshire — a landmark in a career that has included countless delightful innings and innumerable dressing-room laughs from this amusing little West Indian. Alvin has always been deservedly popular on the English...

A marketing student turned professional cricketer, Alvin Kallicharran is associated with two record-making partnerships. He and Lawrence Rowe put on 249 runs at Bridgetown in 1973-74, the highest second-wicket stand for West Indies against England. These two also scored...

These days, Vivian Richards is a conquering hero. Many West Indian parents like to name their children with a flourish, and when Mr. and Mrs. Richards, of St John's, Antigua, called the son born to them in 1952 Isaac...

On the day that thousands commemorated the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, across the channel at Edgbaston the cricket world was applauding another battle, one led single-handedly by West Indies batsman Brian Lara.  In a County Championship match,...

West Indies Sir Viv Richards fell into the same category as Chappell another player who has always wanted to be the master of bowlers. I don't think lies are as technically sound as Chappell was, but there's not a...

The sight of Vivian Richards standing bare-chested in the visiting team's balcony at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium is still vivid in one's memory. It was November 1983 in Delhi and people were clothed in woolens. But Viv Richards was...

There was a lot of tension and excitement during the tied test match between West Indies and Australia, which you wouldn't believe. Having scored a single, Wally Grout faced the first ball of the last over, which was to...

Brian Lara 375 - Rules the World with Chanceless Innings at St John’s Antigua 18, April 1994 Test in West Indies against England stunned the cricketing world. The most romantic of all Test cricket records, the highest individual Test...

Among athletes known to me, only Joe Louis equaled the West Indian wicket-keeper, CL Walcott, in his ability to give an impression of soporific tranquility, instantaneously shattered by a spasm of action so fast as to be almost invisible...

Calypso Cricket - It all started in 1950 when Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine took 18 wickets to spin West Indies to their first Test win at Lord's prompting the Trinidadian songster's Lord Kitchener, not that one) and Lord...