West Indies News

Birthday celebration ... a fired-up Peter Siddle successfully appeals for the prized wicket of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who fell lbw for two at the Gabba yesterday.

OVER the past three days Chris Gayle, Travis Dowlin and Adrian Barath - the hare, the tortoise and the colt - displayed the best and worst of West Indian cricket.

Joel Garner has called for a review of West Indies Test preparations and blamed an over-abundance of limited-overs cricket for their first Test humiliation.

West Indies batting star Brian Lara met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who described him as an "icon" and showered praise on him for his cricketing skills.

Adrian Barath rewrote the record books becoming the youngest West Indies player to score a Test century but the Caribbean side imploded spectacularly on the third day of the opening Test against Australia, staggering to a painful innings and 65-run defeat at the Gabba yesterday.

AS cricket's golden boy Michael Clarke helped Australia demolish the West Indies in the first Test, the other half of Australia's answer to Posh and Becks was nowhere to be seen.

New Delhi News.Net Sunday 29th November, 2009 Dubai, Nov.29 : Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has regained number-one batting spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his eighth career century helped India record an innings and 144 runs victory over Sri Lanka in the second Test in Kanpur.

Muralitharan, who has already announced his Test retirement after next year's series against the West Indies [ Images ], said he may walk into the sunset before the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent. Sri Lanka is currently trailing 0-1 in the three-match Test series against India, the final game of which starts on December 2 in Mumbai [ Images ].

Test cricket returns to Brabourne stadium after 36 years with the third and final match of the series between India [ Images ] and Sri Lanka [ Images ] and the organisers have promised to make it memorable with a good wicket for the December 2-6 game.

BEN Hilfenhaus must have been tempted to bottle a bit of English atmosphere and bring it home with him so much did he enjoy the conditions in his maiden Ashes series, in which he was the best of a mixed bag of Australian bowlers.

MICHAEL Hussey is trying not to let questions over his future affect his batting and took some of the pressure off with 66 on day one of the first Test against the West Indies at the Gabba.

Haunted by 15 years of failure against the World champions, West Indies will seek to overcome their recent history of under-achievement when they face Australia in the opening game of the three-Test series at the Gabba tonight, Caribbean time.

Rare sight a Test cricketer playing in a Shield match. Michael Clarke was in action for NSW against Tasmania at the SCG last week.

NATHAN HAURITZ has been supported as Australia's No.1 spinner by Shane Warne in the lead-in to the first Test next week.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting has backed Mike Hussey to be at his best when the left-hander's career comes full circle in the first Test against the West Indies starting at the Gabba today.

The script couldn't have been more perfectly written for Brendan Nash's return to the Gabba as a Test batsman on Friday.

Canberra, Australia - Retired West Indies cricket star Brian Lara has been appointed an honorary member of the Order of Australia, a government acknowledgement of his record-breaking career.

C'mon Aussie C'mon gets makeover The old cricket anthem C'mon Aussie c'mon, written by MoJo in the 1970s, has been redone and updated for the 2009 series against the West Indies.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul will be showing his broad bat to Australia's pacemen who, in turn, promise to give him a close-up look at the little red projectile.

The Associated Press will suspend coverage of cricket in Australia for the second consecutive international season because of a dispute over conditions for accreditation imposed by Cricket Australia.