Jamaican middle-order batsmen Jermaine Blackwood and Nkrumah Bonner are in high spirits and confident about their form as the Windies team gets ready for the first of three Tests against hosts England starting on Wednesday. The duo registered...
The Windies cricket team has identified how it will support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. It will wear a specially designed logo on shirts for the three-Test Series against hosts England, starting on July 8. Captain Jason Holder sported...
Jamaica Golf Association (JGA) President Peter Chin says tournaments will tee off in July as the country eases restrictions on public gatherings and sporting activity after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sports, and golf in particular, have been on hold...
Former Windies fast bowler Franklyn Rose says he is concerned about the fitness of compatriot pacer Oshane Thomas as he believes he is overweight. Rose, who played 19 Tests and 27 One-Day Internationals (ODI) for the Windies between 1997 and 2000,...
President of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Ricky Skerritt could find himself before the Justice Winston Anderson-chaired CWI Ethics Committee after a report was submitted to the body accusing him of breaches of the CWI Code of Ethics as well as a...
One of the most iconic figures in T20 cricket will be missing from this year’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL), as the legendary batsman Chris Gayle has decided to bypass this year’s tournament, which is slated to take place August 18 to September...
Pace bowlers Oshane Thomas and Marquino Mindley are upbeat about their time spent so far in England as the Windies prepare to face the hosts in a biosecure three-Test series starting on July 8. The Jamaican duo are part of a 25-man tour party that...
For the fourth consecutive season, Jamaican Ramaal Lewis will turn out for the Guyana Jaguars after it signed the 23-year-old in the Cricket West Indies Professional Player draft. Lewis, who captained the West Indies team to the Youth World Cup in...
THE JAMAICA Scorpions franchise has snapped up fast bowler Odean Smith and all-rounder Alwyn Williams following the West Indies professional players draft for the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup and the West Indies Four-Day Championship. The...
The Jamaica Scorpions Franchise will have a totally local composition after the 2020 Cricket West Indies (CWI) Professional Player Draft for the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup and the Professional Cricket League Regional Four-Day...
ONE of the most memorable episodes of classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers has been withdrawn from a United Kingdom streaming service because of racial slurs which referred to the Windies and India cricket teams of 1975 as ‘N*****s’ and W*gs’. UKTV...
The Windies cricket team will embark on an unprecedented Test series against England in a few weeks that should kick-start the post-COVID-19 resumption of international cricket. The biosecure three-Test series, which will take place using only two...
Former West Indies and Jamaica off-spinning all-rounder Gareth Breese is expecting a very competitive series when the West Indies travel to take on England in the three-Test matches. Breese, who has been living in the UK since 2004, is currently...
It has been almost three years since Jermaine Blackwood legitimately made a Windies senior squad, but if you were to ask the 28-year-old, he would tell you that it was only a matter of time before he would get a crack at international cricket once...
Two years ago, Nkrumah Bonner could not even make the Jamaica senior men’s cricket team. Fast-forward to the present, and the right-handed batsman is among the 25 players that will be travelling to England for the West Indies’ three-Test tour...
Opener John Campbell, middle-order batsmen Jermaine Blackwood and Nkrumah Bonner are the only Jamaicans named in the West Indies’ original 15-man squad for the three-Test tour of England, which will bowl off on July 8. The Gleaner has learnt that...
Jamaica and West Indies Women all-rounder Shanel Daley says the national women’s cricket team has lost a “father figure” following the passing of coach Cleon Smith, who died on Thursday. The 60-year-old Smith passed away at the Kingston Public...
Former national senior men’s football team coach Bradley Stewart has backed Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore after comments made by Jamaica forward Leon Bailey regarding team selection. Bailey criticised national head coach Whitmore’s frequent squad...
REGGAE BOYZ defender Damion Lowe says the options are plenty for him following his amicable agreement to leave Norwegian club IK Start. The 27-year-old Lowe, who joined the club back in 2017 from United Soccer League side Tampa Bay Rowdies in the...
Many would have known Gleaner Company Media Limited former chairman and managing director Oliver Clarke as the consummate business professional, however, the media titan was also a lover of tennis and an avid supporter of the sport. Tennis Jamaica...
CHRIS GAYLE will face no disciplinary action for his YouTube rant on April 27 as the PJ Patterson-chaired Caribbean Premier League Tournament Committee has accepted a statement that Gayle has issued regarding the matter. On May 6, the CPL...
All-rounder Rovman Powell, who is expected to captain the Jamaica Tallawahs franchise in the upcoming Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season, says his team will be doing all it can to win over the Jamaican fans after a bad 2019 campaign. Powell was...
JAMAICA AND West Indies opener John Campbell has been named along with compatriot middle-order batsmen Jermaine Blackwood and Nkrumah Bonner in a 30-man provisional West Indies squad for the impending tour of England which is tentatively set for...
Former national footballer Arthur Lattimore passed away after a long battle with throat cancer. Lattimore, who represented Jamaica’s football team throughout the 1970s, died at his home in Florida, leaving behind five children, grandchildren, and...
The Jamaica Tallawahs have wasted little time in finding a replacement for the ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle, as they have snapped up the captain of the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots, Carlos Brathwaite. The Gleaner has been reliably informed that...
